Easy Slow-Cooker Recipes From The Pioneer Woman

Hot or cold, rain or shine, your slow cooker is there to provide comfort food while you kick up your feet. Our favorite Ree Drummond recipes for these helpful appliances include sticky ribs, scrumptious sides and seriously delicious hot chocolate, which you can walk away from with just a press of a button. And with Pioneer Woman appliances available exclusively at Walmart, there has never been a better time to do less in the kitchen.

Even famously laborious lasagna gets the slow-cooker treatment from Ree right out of the gate. Her most popular slow-cooker recipe keeps the kitchen cool and minimizes cleanup, so you don’t need to wait for the temperature to drop to enjoy this family favorite.

Ribs. Slow cooker. Do we need to say more? If you insist: sticky, spicy, sweet, fall-off-the-bone, cut-them-with-a-spoon kind of ribs in three hours. While the sweet smell of barbecue sauce wafts into your kitchen all day, you can pair these with Ree’s delicious cornbread and a crisp green salad.

Go ahead and hit snooze a few more times this weekend. Clocking in with an eight-hour overnight cook on low, the best part of waking up is a house that smells like peaches, brown sugar and vanilla.

While any cola works, Ree goes with the extra spicy-sweetness of Dr. Pepper to add caramelization and zip to her slow-cooker pulled pork. Wonderfully tender in six hours and with enough sauce to serve tableside, this one is great whenever you’ve got a crowd to feed.

Take our advice here and buy another bag of chips. Possibly the easiest recipe you’ll find on this list, Ree’s velvety green chile queso will be the star of your tailgate, or just any day that you want a big pot of cheesy, melty goodness in your life.

Slow cookers are great kitchen workhorses on holidays when your stove and oven are packed. These easy sweet potatoes cook up in just three hours and are certain to be a star on your table.

From potlucks to cocktail parties, slow-cooker meatballs have gone by many names through the decades, but all have one thing in common: they’re delicious. Ree’s version uses pickled jalapeños to bring the heat and grape jelly for the sweet.

We’ve all had days when we need easy. Sometimes, you have days where you need to throw a stir-fry into a slow cooker, rice into a rice cooker and walk away.

While we haven’t found a way to add a grilled cheese sandwich to the slow cooker for this recipe, you’ll have plenty of time to make them on the stovetop while this soup simmers away.

Hearty and rich pasta for a crowd? You got it! Start this slow-cooker bolognese after breakfast and it’s ready by dinner. All you need to do is choose your favorite pasta.

Name a more iconic duo than slow cookers and chili. This one is a long cook, clocking in at eight hours, but you can make it ahead and reheat it right in your slow cooker whenever you’re ready.

If you’re looking to elevate soups, stews and sauces at home, one of the best ways is to make your own chicken broth — and this one is as easy as they come. Add all of your ingredients to your slow cooker, cover with water, cook for 12 hours and strain. Done!

If you make the chicken broth from the last slide, why not put it to work immediately with this hearty wild rice soup?

There’s never a bad time for brisket, and these slow-cooked brisket tacos with all the fixings are here to make sure of that! Not in a taco mood? A quick batch of rice turns these into a week’s worth of burrito bowls to enjoy, or slice up some slider rolls and serve to a crowd.

While the recipe calls for dried beans, canned beans can be used in a pinch! Keep in mind that because they are already soaked and soft, you’ll need to adjust your cook time to avoid blown-out beans. Set your cooker to low and check them after three hours.

Have you ever eaten a sandwich that immediately makes you want another sandwich? This is that sandwich. With caramelized onions, melty provolone and plenty of zip from whole pepperoncini, you might even skip the bread and just dive into your slow cooker with a fork.

This might be the recipe that causes you to buy a second slow cooker. This decadent, delightful hot chocolate for a crowd is ready in two hours. Favoring a mocha? Add an equal amount of hot chocolate to your coffee, then top with whipped cream and a chocolate syrup drizzle.