Slow cooker recipes: 15 dishes that taste better when slow cooked
Roast chicken, bolognese sauce and even ribs — these are just a few dishes that taste better after being slow cooked. Take a look at 15 recipes that will melt in your mouth.
The Taste Test Kitchen food editors all love their slow cookers, because they’ve been in the cooking game long enough to know that low and slow is the key to incredible texture.
It’s also a way to inject extra flavour into all of your favourite dishes.
So simply set, forget and let these melt-in-your mouth curries, soups and even desserts gradually work their way into your regular easy dinner repertoire.
Cook the easiest, most rich and luscious bolognese in the slow cooker. Just prep the ingredients and let this family favourite dinner take care of itself.
If you want that tender, no knife required results, then you need to cook your lamb in a slow cooker. Serve in a pita bread (or any other kind of a flatbread) and you can toss leftovers in a salad the next day.
Roast chicken with cheat’s crispy skin
Preparing a whole chicken in the slow cooker ensures it’s evenly cooked through and stays wonderfully moist. Finishing it off in the oven for 5 minutes ensures you get that crispy skin everyone will be fighting over.
Set the slow cooker and come home to this hearty chicken soup. It is loaded with healthy vegetables and leftovers can be eaten the next day for lunch.
This is why we love our slow cooker. This creamy chicken dinner takes 10 minutes to prepare, all the ingredients go in together at the same time, and you can then basically forget about it until it’s time to eat. Perfection!
The possibilities in the slow cooker are truly endless! Make this fall-apart tender eggplant parmigiana for dinner and everyone will think you slaved away for hours.
This easy slow cooker dinner is an all-in-one meal that just needs some crusty bread to mop up the delicious gravy. It seriously is the best-ever. Pro-tip: any leftovers can be chopped into smaller pieces in the gravy and used to make pies.
Using family-friendly chicken thighs, mango and coconut cream, this creamy chicken curry is made easier by cooking it in the slow cooker.
This slow cooker curry is the ultimate meal prep dinner: enjoy half the batch as is with rice tonight and turn the other half into wraps for tomorrow night’s dinner (see recipe in notes).
Super easy and with a delicious smoky flavour – you only need five minutes prep for these perfect slow-cooker ribs.
Prep two meals at once with this easy dinner idea. Enjoy half the lamb tonight, then use the second batch to make Greek-inspired ‘nachos’ tomorrow (see notes for the recipe).
Apple, rhubarb and raspberry pie filling
Combine apple, rhubarb, sugar, orange juice, cinnamon and vanilla in your slow cooker and let it do its magic.
Beef stroganoff fans, this one’s for you. Topped with cheesy pasta parcels, it’s an all-in-one dream.
Making ramen at home is easier than it seems, especially when you’ve got a slow cooker. Our recipe uses melting pork belly and creamy soft-boiled eggs.
Can’t decide between Italian and Mexican? You don’t have to with this Mexican lasagne. The best thing about it? You can prepare it and go – the slow cooker does all the hard work.
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