250 low cooker recipes

A delicious creamy vegetable soup that's perfect as a side or as a family dinner when served with a scrumptious crusty bread.

Another succulent corned beef dish that will have you hooked just by making it! Tastes wonderful over rice.

Classic French Provencal dish usually cooked in a heavy casserole on the stove top or in the oven; would also work well in slow cooker. Use inexpensive stewing beef or oyster blade; it will not be anywhere near as good if you use more expensive cuts of beef.

Fall off the bone lamb with sweet capsicum (bell pepper) and tomatoes. Stand a shank on top of a 'mountain' of garlic mash potato in a bowl; ladle bell peppers and soupy stock all around. Mop up with crusty bread

This is really healthy and is a great way to lose weight.

Slow cooker beef and beans with cubed chuck, salt pork, and pinto beans simmered in tomato paste, garlic, chili powder, and cumin. Old-school cowboy comfort food, low and slow until the beef pulls apart.

Spicy cabbage beef soup made in the slow cooker: browned ground beef, cabbage and kidney beans simmered low in a tomato broth with picante sauce, cumin and a kick of heat. A hearty, hands-off, fill-you-up soup.

Slow cooker beef chili with stewing beef, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and chili powder cooked low for 8 to 10 hours. A no-bean, no-fuss Texas-style chili with serious depth.

Orange, lemon, and grapefruit marmalade slow-cooks three citrus fruits with sugar into a glossy bittersweet preserve. British-style marmalade with no commercial pectin needed.

Smoky barbecue meatballs simmered in a sauce of ketchup, brown sugar, tomato paste, and liquid smoke. A crowd-pleasing party meatball that holds well in the slow cooker.

Spaghetti and meatballs simmered in a slow-cooked tomato sauce with red wine, mushrooms, green pepper, basil, and oregano. Tender pan-fried beef meatballs and a deeply layered sauce that builds for two hours.

Chicken fettuccine with Parmesan, peas, and fresh basil in a broth-based cream sauce. Lighter than classic Alfredo because the sauce starts with real chicken poaching liquid, not just butter and cream.

A lighter vegetarian lasagna with homemade veggie-red wine tomato sauce, ricotta, fresh spinach, and nonfat mozzarella. Ovo-lacto friendly and packed with vegetables in every layer.

Portuguese garlic chicken slow-cooked with port wine, brandy, ham, golden raisins, and six cloves of garlic, then broiled golden. A rich slow cooker showpiece.

Round steak rolled around carrots and dill pickles then slow-cooked in tomato sauce creates tender Swiss beef rouladen perfect for Sunday dinners or slow cooker comfort meals.

Italian fitascetta bread ring topped with slow-cooked caramelized red onions. A rustic olive oil yeast bread with a soft interior and a crispy, golden crust.