My Crock-Pot (aka – slow cooker, CrockPot is actually a trademarked brand name) has not only become my best friend, but it has been my saving grace too! As a busy momma with hungry boys to feed, I spend a LOT of time and energy planning and preparing meals. And I’ll be honest, sometimes I get fed up with feeding people. (what momma hasn’t?) That is why I’ve come to rely heavily on my slow cooker as of late.
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I try to make 3 slow cooker dinners per week, typically on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’m finding this to be working out really well for us. It saves me time in the long run to prepare ahead like this, and it saves me stress. Not to mention, it’s helpful on those nights I’m picking kids up from activities or headed to my son’s football games (now that football is over, it’s wrestling season -do you have any idea how long wrestling meets are?).
Making dinner while everyone is under foot is quite a challenge. Add to that, needing to pick up kids from activities after school, finish house chores, do homework, as well as keep the boys from harming each other or the furniture. Making dinner while the kids are home, hungry and waiting is often NO FUN at all. Taking about 20-30 minutes during the day to prep ahead has made all the difference for me. While some of the slow cooker meals I make are indeed one dish dinners, some are not. However, making a side dish right before dinner is FAR easier than cooking the whole thing from scratch. Plus, while I get my slow cooker meal going, I also make sure I’m as prepped as I can be to make any additional side dishes closer to dinner time. Seriously, my life has taken on new meaning with my trusty slow cooker pulling it’s weight!
Today, I’m here to share an arsenal of slow cooker recipes with you, in case you are like me and are wanting to turn dinner time into a more pleasant and feasible experience. All the recipes will be gluten free. They come from other real food bloggers across the web. These recipes include a lot of dinner options, as well as a variety of others – like sauces, jams/jellies, yogurt and more! There are also some repeat recipes, like pulled pork and roasted chicken, though they vary slightly -so I shared them anyhow. I’m so excited because now I have more recipes than I could ever dream of to try in my slow cooker. Oh, and I’m also gonna share a bunch of slow cooker cookbooks and an eBook you can check out, in case this list of 80 recipes isn’t enough for you! Let’s dive in shall we?!
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80 Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Recipes
Main Dishes- Chicken/Turkey
Easy Crock Pot ‘Rotisserie’ Style Chicken & Awesome Brown Stock – Thoughtful Cave Dad
Chicken Tacos To Die For - Pickle Me Too
Crock Pot Chicken - Scratch Mommy
Crock Pot Chicken Tacos - Just Enjoy Food
Roasted Crock Pot Chicken – Natural Living Mamma
Easy Peasy Crock Pot Chicken – Hollywood Homestead
Slow Cooker Roast Chicken – Actual Organics
Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken – Don’t Waste The Crumbs
Herb Roasted Chicken with Veggies – Real Food Outlaws
Spicy Sesame Honey Chicken – Honey, Ghee, & Me
Crock Pot Chicken Mole - Honey, Ghee, & Me
Slow Cooker Quinoa Chicken Chili – Honey, Ghee, & Me
Butternut Squash Chicken Stew - Honey, Ghee, & Me
Crock Pot Turkey & Rice Stuffed Peppers – Honey, Ghee, & Me
Crock Pot Peanut Chicken Curry – Honey, Ghee, & Me
Main Dishes – Beef/Bison
Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Shallots and Baby Carrots - The Organic Kitchen
Slow Cooker ‘Pepper Steak’ Roast - The Skinny Pear
Buttery Pepper Encrusted Pot Roast – Health Nut Nation
Slow Cooker Roast, Potatoes and Carrots – We Got Real
Round Steak with Mushroom Gravy - We Got Real
Crock Pot Carnitas – The Things We’ll Make
Garlic Roast Beef - Real Food RN
Sundried Tomato, Balsamic Onion Pot Roast – Real Food RN
Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff - A Happy Health Nut
Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff - Granny’s Vital Vittles
Asian Style Sweet & Spicy Short Ribs – Honey, Ghee, & Me
Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls - Melissa K. Norris
Double or Triple Duty Pot Roast – Lisa’s Counter Culture
How To Cook Beef Tongue – The Curious Coconut
Olla de Carne - Edible Harmony
Cuban Ropa Vieja – The Curious Coconut
Cuban Picadillo – The Curious Coconut
Carnitas Tacos - Megan Lierman
Balsamic Eye of Round - Edible Harmony
Beef & Beet Green Stew - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Mexican Pulled Beef with Kale - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Super Slow Roasted Beef – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Easiest Crock Pot Beef Ever - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Crock Pot Beef Stew – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Crock Pot Brats - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Main Dishes- Pork/Lamb
Pulled Pork - Hollywood Homestead
Crock Pot Pulled Pork -Thoughtful Cave Dad
Slow Cooked Rack of Lamb with Tzatzki - Honey, Ghee, & Me
Slow Cooker Lamb Curry - Honey, Ghee, & Me
Mexican Paleo Pork – What I Gather
Barbecue Ribs - Edible Harmony
Kansas City Style Spare Ribs - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Lamb Stew – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Pastured Pulled Pork – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Leg of Lamb - Divine Health From The Inside Out
Soups/Stews/Stocks
Easy Butternut Squash Soup – Real Food Carolyn
Homemade Crock Pot Chicken Stock – Scratch Mommy
One Pot Vegan Chili – Meg’s Vegucation
Creamy Tomato Soup – We Got Real
Homemade Poultry Broth – Frugal Paleo
Taco Soup - What I Gather
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup with Swirly Basil Oil - What I Gather
Pumpkin Paleo Chili - What I Gather
Garlic Soup – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Pumpkin Seed Chili Verde – Edible Harmony
Vegetables/Starchy Sides
Cooking Dried Beans - Vicariously Vintage
Crock Pot Pinto Beans – We Got Real
The Best Baked Potatoes Ever! - The Skinny Pear
Crock Pot Refried Beans - An Organic Wife
Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce - Girl Meets Nourishment
Crock Pot Caramelized Onions – Brown Thumb Mama
Crock Pot Spaghetti Sauce - Brown Thumb Mama
Acorn Squash in the Crockpot - A Life In Balance
Slow Cooker Peppers & Onions – A Life In Balance
Crock Pot Braised Cabbage – Divine Health From The Inside Out
Super Easy Crock Pot Spaghetti Squash Curry – Paleo Pot
Fruit Options
Healthy Crock Pot Applesauce – Scratch Mommy
Slow Cooker Crab Apple & Pepper Jelly – The Skinny Pear
Strawberry Lavendar Jam – House Barn Farm
Easy Crock Pot Applesauce- Real Food Outlaws
Crock Pot Apple Butter - Brown Thumb Mama
Apple Cranberry Mulled Cider - Honey, Ghee, & Me
Cranberry Apple Sauce - Edible Harmony
Miscellaneous
Crock Pot Brownie Bites – Life Made Full
Homemade Yogurt: The Crock Pot Method - The Aliso Kitchen
Slow Cooker Cookbooks I Recommmend
The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals The easy Way (affiliate link) – If you are on a strict Paleo diet, like gourmet cooking, have little more wiggle room in your budget and enjoy gorgeous pics all bound in hardback -this book is totally for you! I love the ideas in this book!
Paleo Slow Cooking: Gluten Free Recipes Made Simple (affiliate link) – This book is family friendly and loaded with recipes that look easy and delicious. It also includes some paleo breakfast and dessert ideas, as well as complementary side dishes that are not done in the slow cooker.
Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy To Make Recipes (affiliate link) – This is my new favorite cookbook recommendation. It is not paleo and not even gluten-free, however it has 400 recipes to choose from and many are recipes that work within my dietary framework. I’ve tried a number of the recipes with great success and was thrilled with the ideas from the book. If you are someone who is able to use a recipe as a template and work around it a bit -this book will rock your socks!
Paleo Slow Cooker Recipes (affiliate link)-If you don’t mind reading cookbooks on your kindle, this cookbook looks good and it’s uber cheap!
Paleo Slow Cooker Soups & Stews (affiliate link) – Another one for the kindle. I do not have this eBook, but thought I would include it since it’s only .99 cents.
From Your Freezer To Your Family; Slow Cooker Freezer Recipes - This is an eBook written by Stephanie of Mama and Baby Love. I recently picked up a copy and found it to be a great resource. It is not gluten free, but has a lot of great ideas, plus a plan to get meals prepped and put up in the freezer for easy meals later on. I think it’s an interesting concept, one I hope to implement in my life a bit more.
Slow Cooker Sites
Paleo Pot is a site based on the paleo diet and using a slow cooker for the most part. He has a great post on how to turn your analog crock into a programmable unit, that I thought was genius. Years ago, before I was a hardcore real foodie, I followed the blogging 365 Days of Crockpotting -which is now called A Year of Slow Cooking (trademark issues I guess). Anyway, it was crazy cool -Stephanie O’Dea took on a year of blogging how she used her crockpot every single day for a year. Now, her recipes are not gluten free or real food based, but for the creative minded chefs, her ideas might inspire you. So that’s why I mention it -to get ideas.
Don’t have a slow cooker yet? Here are a couple that I can recommend to you:
One of these is a regular ole crockpot that I use in my home. Another is a programmable one for the work-outside-of-the-home folks. Lastly, I’ve included my 22 qt. roaster – okay perhaps it’s not a crockpot, but it can act like one. It’s what I use to make beef bone broth. It can hold a lot of bones at once and since I simmer my beef broth for 3 days, this is a convenient way to do it and not take up so much space on my stove top. I’ve also done large batches of my pulled pork recipe in it, as well as used it for a turkey. It makes a great holding place for my turkey at Thanksgiving too, when I need the oven for all the other items.
Stay tuned for my Slow Cooker Giveaway – coming later this month! Be sure to sign up for my feed or newsletter so you don’t miss the giveaway!
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