Carnitas Sliders
When you think about Mexican cuisine, one of the standout dishes that likely comes to mind is carnitas. This deliciously seasoned, slow-cooked pork shoulder dates back centuries and has rich cultural significance.
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Slow Cooker Crab Rangoon Dip
If you love crab rangoon, get ready to fall head over heels for this dip version! Imagine everything you adore about those crispy, golden wontons filled with creamy crab goodness, but in a scoopable, dippable form. This crab rangoon dip is the ultimate appetizer, perfect for game days, gatherings, or just when you’re craving something seriously tasty.
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Pumpkin Spice Pork Tacos
Classic fall flavor meets family-favorite weeknight meal in this Pumpkin Spice Pork Tacos recipe. Hearty, slow-cooked pork shoulder combines with a savory pumpkin spice seasoning blend for a dish that's both comforting and unique. Rubbed with aromatic spices and cooked to perfection in your slow cooker, the pork becomes irresistibly tender and flavorful. Serve it up with warm tortillas and an array of taco toppings for a dinner that's as easy as it is crave-worthy. Whether you're hosting a cozy family dinner or a festive autumn gathering, these Pumpkin Spice Pork Tacos are sure to be a hit. You’ll want to savor every single bite!
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Slow-Cooker Vegan Mashed Potatoes
What if we told you we had a way to make Thanksgiving prep even easier? What if we then told you it would make the vegans and non-vegans in your life beyond happy? Enter our creamy vegan mashed potatoes. The prep for this recipe is a snap, and your slow cooker handles the rest. Just set it and forget it, easy as that. In this Slow-Cooker Vegan Mashed Potatoes recipe, you get all the flavors of traditional mashed potatoes without the dairy. No matter if you’re bringing a dish over or you’re prepping the whole feast at home, our vegan mashed potatoes are sure to be a hit. If there's a vegan mashed potatoes recipe to include in the family cookbook, this is it.
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Slow-Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken
Combining sweet, savory and spicy flavors, it’s no wonder Thai Peanut Chicken is a take-out favorite. But here’s a secret: It doesn’t have to come from a take-out box to turn out delicious. You, or rather your slow cooker, can do this dinner at home. Thai cooking is all about combining bright, bold ingredients to create big flavor.
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Slow-Cooker Short-Rib Goulash
Meltingly tender meaty dishes like this one are made for cold nights. And while this would make a perfect Sunday supper, it’s actual possible any night of the week, thanks to your slow cooker! That’s right, this recipe truly benefits from cooking all day. Beef short-ribs are extremely flavorful, but to experience the full depth of their savoriness, you need time. Time, plus a prep technique we consider key to making the best possible slow-cooker meats: browning. Browning the short ribs, onions and garlic and deglazing the pan might sound cumbersome, but it’s actually quite efficient, since the deglazing leaves you with a clean pan, and more importantly, the whole process amounts to next-level flavor. Flavor so dynamite, we think this recipe is destined to become a part of your cold-weather dinner rotation!
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Slow-Cooker Pork, Sauerkraut and Kielbasa
Delight the hearty eaters in your life with this, the ultimate meat and potatoes dish. Actually, we should say meats, since it contains both country-style pork ribs and kielbasa sausage, which taste mighty fine served alongside creamy Yukon Gold potatoes. Keeping all those richly-flavored ingredients in check, is the zesty Dijon marinade and tangy sauerkraut. So while this certainly is not a light meal, it is well-balanced. The only thing it might be missing is a slice of brown rye bread and a stein of your favorite Oktoberfest brew. Prost!
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Slow-Cooker Mongolian Beef
Here’s something that should make every home cook happy: There’s tons of flavor in less expensive cuts of meat. The trick is to treat those cheap cuts right, as is done in this recipe, where beef stew meat is browned in a skillet and left to finish off over low heat in the slow cooker. The result of this all-day stewing is succulent and fully flavored Mongolian beef that’s well complemented by its sweet and savory sauce—made of brown sugar and soy sauce. The chopped carrots and vinegar added at the end provide a welcome bit of freshness and acid to the dish, while the garnishes of fresh, chopped green onions and sprinkle of sesame seed adds brightness and sweet nuttiness. Serve this with rice, and you’ve got a take-out favorite dinner—at a fraction of the price.
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Slow-Cooker Irish Stout Beef Stew
During the colder months, we can’t get enough soup, stew and chili, but truth be told—sometimes we need a break from our old favorites. That’s why this recipe is such a welcome addition. It makes for a hearty bowl with fall-apart-tender chunks of beef in a luscious, rich broth, but that’s not all that’s going on here. Caramelized onions add a sweetness that’s well balanced by the slightly bitter (think coffee-flavored) taste of the Guinness®. The preparation of the beef—it’s dredged in flour and browned before being added to the slow cooker crock—helps thicken the stew and adds all sorts of deeply savory flavor. So when you want something comforting and crowd-friendly—but also feel like you’ve been eating the same thing for months—turn to this sensational stew for something new.
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Slow-Cooker Creamy Tomato and Tortellini Soup
As they say, opposites attract. That’s certainly the case with sweet, acidic tomatoes and creamy dairy—in all its many forms. After all, it’s this better-together combination that makes lasagna so luxurious, pizza so mouthwatering and grilled cheese and tomato soup so irresistible. So when we set out to make an extra-easy slow-cooker soup, we knew we wanted it to feature this combo. But hold on—dairy in the slow cooker? That’s usually a less-than-ideal combination (dairy can easily curdle in the slow cooker). That’s why the trick to this recipe is waiting until the end to add the cream and cheesy tortellini. That’s right, we decided a double-dose of dairy would be the perfect complement to the tomatoes in this soup, and the result is rich, velvety and very comforting! And that’s not all, the dollop of fresh pesto adds bright, anise-tinged notes and the sprinkle of shredded Parmesan adds nutty richness that take this simple soup to the next level!
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Slow-Cooker Lemon-Pepper Chicken with Green Olives and Potatoes
Buttery olives, rich chicken, creamy potatoes in a luscious sauce brightened up with lemon and fresh herbs—this isn’t just a tasty dinner, this recipe is also a lesson in great slow cooking. We say this because it uses several techniques to maximize flavor, while still delivering on the hands-off convenience that slow cookers promise.
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Slow-Cooker Ham and Black-Eyed Pea Soup
Peasant food, cucina povera, whatever you want to call it, this soup descends from a cooking tradition that focuses on maximizing the flavor of humble ingredients. With little more than beans and a ham hock, which is more bone than meat, it’s almost confounding that this soup turns out so delicious. The slow cooking certainly contributes, simply by allowing time and heat to extract as much flavor as possible from the ham hock. Not that this couldn’t be done with stovetop cooking, but who wants to stand over the stove when you could leave this cooking all day and come home to dinner?
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Slow-Cooker Barbecue Chicken Thighs
Meet your new favorite party dish! Sweet and smoky with just the right amount of spicy kick, these barbecue chicken thighs are a crowd pleaser that’ll make every host’s life a little bit easier. Here’s why this recipe is so good: First, thighs are the perfect cut of chicken for the slow cooker, because they contain more fat, which means they don’t dry out as easily as breasts. Second, the sauce is homemade—and homemade does not equal hard in this case. If you can chop an onion, you can make this sauce, and it is so worth it! We’ve made sure that there’s enough sauce to coat the chicken while it cooks, and some extra to add as a finishing touch, because let’s be real—it’s all about the sauce when barbecue’s on the menu!
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Biscuit Waffles with Turkey Sausage Gravy
Biscuits and gravy? Been there, done that. Biscuits made in a waffle iron smothered in turkey sawmill gravy? Now that’s more like it. Whether you’re enjoying this easy meal in the morning on Thanksgiving or you’re just looking to liven up weekend brunch, this 7-ingredient recipe is the hottest thing in breakfast.
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Slow-Cooker Caramelized Onion Dip
With sweet, melty onions mixed into a creamy base and brought to life with a couple of savory ingredients, this luscious dip will keep everyone hovering around the bowl and, in between bites, talking to each other about how good it is! And since that’s what parties are all about, we think this is the recipe you need next time you entertain.
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