17 Easy Crock Pot Recipes for Busy Weeknights

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Busy weeknights call for dinners that practically make themselves, and that’s exactly what you’ll find in this collection of easy crock pot recipes. With just a few minutes of prep, your slow cooker can handle the hard work while you take care of everything else on your schedule. From hearty comfort food to family-friendly favorites, these recipes make it simple to get a delicious homemade meal on the table without spending your evening in the kitchen.

Crock Pot Butter Chicken
Crock Pot Butter Chicken is one of those meals that feels like you ordered takeout, but it’s all made right at home.
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Crockpot butter chicken
Garlic Parmesan Potatoes in the Crock Pot
The slow cooker does all the work, and you end up with tender potatoes coated in buttery garlic and plenty of Parmesan. It’s simple, comforting, and easy to pair with just about any main dish.
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garlic parmesan potatoes
Crock Pot Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings
These Crock Pot Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings are sticky, tangy, and incredibly easy to throw together.
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Sweet and sour chicken wings
Crock Pot Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken
This Crock Pot Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken has a rich and creamy sauce with plenty of garlic, herbs, and tomato flavor, and the chicken turns out tender enough to cut with a fork.
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Tomato basil chicken
Crock Pot Sesame Chicken Sandwiches
These Crock Pot Sesame Chicken Sandwiches take everything you love about sesame chicken and turn it into an easy, crowd-friendly meal.
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sesame chicken sandwich
Crock Pot Bourbon Chicken
This Crock Pot Bourbon Chicken is rich, slightly sweet, and packed with that deep, savory flavor you usually only get from takeout
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crock pot bourbon chicken
Simply Delicious Crock Pot Pork Chops
Crock Pot Pork Chops are a comforting dish featuring juicy bone-in pork chops in a tasty cream of mushroom sauce – a perfect dinner option that can be started before you head to work and will be done when you arrive home.
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Crock pot pork chops
Crock Pot Chicken Pot Pie
Crock Pot Chicken Pot Pie is the ultimate comfort food where tender chicken and veggies in a creamy sauce are topped with golden, flaky biscuits—all made effortlessly in your crock pot.
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A bowl of chicken pot pie
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Crock Pot Potatoes
Crock Pot Potatoes with garlic and olive oil is the perfect simple side dish that you can make in the crock pot with only 4 ingredients and they are melt-in-your-mouth good.
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Crock pot potatoes
Crock Pot Hot Chocolate
This Crock Pot Hot Chocolate is perfect for cold weather. Create a steaming mug of chocolatey goodness by warming whole milk, cream, sweetened condensed milk, and chocolate chips together.
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hot chocolate in the crock pot
Crockpot Fajitas (Beef or Chicken)
Crockpot Fajitas are the kind of dinner you make when you want something flavorful without standing over the stove.
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Crockpot fajitas
Crockpot Meatballs in Marinara
With just five simple ingredients, you can have a warm, comforting dish simmering away with almost no effort.
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crock pot meatballs in marinara
Easy Crockpot Spaghetti
Crockpot Spaghetti is a quick and fuss-free dinner option made with simple ingredients like ground beef, crushed tomatoes, and tomato paste.
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a pile of spaghetti on a plate.
Pork Roast in the Crockpot
Making Pork Roast in the Crockpot, using pork shoulder or pork butt is one of our favorite fall meals to make. Let it cook while you're away at work and come home to a perfectly tender roast.
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A pork roast
Slow Cooker Beef Ragu with Pappardelle
This slow cooker beef ragu is serious comfort food. The tender beef develops incredible flavor alongside the red wine and tomatoes.
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Beef Ragu with Pappardelle
Slow Cooker Beef Short Ribs
These slow-cooker beef short ribs will reach fall-off-the-bone tenderness with very little work on your part.
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Beef Short Ribs
Pork Belly in the Slow Cooker
Slow Cooker Pork Belly turns out incredibly tender with great flavor after 6 hours in the slow cooker.
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Pork Belly in the Slow Cooker

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