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Slow Cooker Butter Chicken
Yoghurt-marinated chicken in a creamy tomato sauce with garam masala — eight hours of low cooking infuses the chicken with extraordinary flavour for the ultimate weeknight curry.
▲ Rising·Score +24
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Best Slow Cooker Recipes for Effortless Delicious Meals
Set it and forget it — slow cooker cooking transforms cheap ingredients into deeply flavourful meals that practically make themselves. These are the recipes that make the slow cooker the hardest-working appliance in your kitchen.
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Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese
Pasta, cream cheese, cheddar, and evaporated milk cooked together — this unconventional slow cooker version produces an impossibly creamy macaroni cheese that kids go absolutely wild for.
▲ Steady·Score +19
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Whole Roast Chicken
A whole chicken in the slow cooker produces the most juicy, tender meat imaginable — followed by 10 minutes under the grill for crispy skin, it rivals any rotisserie bird.
▲ Steady·Score +13
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Slow Cooker Bolognese
Minced beef, pork, wine, milk, and tomatoes cooked low and slow for 6 hours — a true Bolognese is worth the wait and the slow cooker makes it entirely hands-off.
▲ Steady·Score +12
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Pulled Pork
Pork shoulder rubbed with spices and slow-cooked for 8-10 hours until it falls apart — the foundation of barbecue sandwiches, tacos, and nachos that feed an entire crowd.
▲ Steady·Score +11
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Beef Short Ribs
Premium beef short ribs braised in red wine with vegetables until they fall from the bone — the slow cooker makes this restaurant-quality dish achievable on any weekday.
▲ Steady·Score +8
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Moroccan Lamb Tagine
Lamb shoulder, preserved lemon, olives, apricots, and ras el hanout spice — the slow cooker perfectly recreates the low-and-slow clay-pot cooking of North African tradition.
▲ Steady·Score +8
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Slow Cooker Chili
Ground beef, three kinds of beans, canned tomatoes, and chili spices — left to cook all day, this chili develops a depth of flavour impossible to achieve in a quick stovetop version.
▲ Steady·Score +5
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Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Beef chuck, root vegetables, red wine, and herbs slow-cooked for 8 hours — an impossibly tender stew that fills the house with magnificent aromas all day.
▲ Steady·Score +4
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Pot Roast
A whole beef chuck roast surrounded by potatoes, carrots, and onions in beef broth — the American Sunday classic that is impossible to overcook and always guarantees comfort.
▲ Steady·Score +2
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken thighs in a rich tomato-cream sauce with aromatic spices — slow-cooked tikka masala is more complex and tender than any restaurant version, without any of the effort.
▲ Steady·Score +2
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Lentil and Vegetable Soup
Red lentils, sweet potato, carrots, and warming spices make a complete, protein-rich meal that costs almost nothing and feeds a family from a single slow cooker session.
▲ Steady·Score -1
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