Do you have a busy lifestyle that doesn’t leave you much time to cook? If so, dump-and-go slow cooker recipes are your best friend! These recipes are incredibly easy to make, and they only require a few minutes of prep time. Simply dump all of the ingredients into your crock pot, turn it on, and let it do its magic.

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Dump-and-go crock pot recipes are perfect for weeknight dinners, and they’re also great for entertaining guests. You can set up the crock pot before your guests arrive, and then you can focus on enjoying their company instead of worrying about dinner.

Here are just a few of the benefits of dump-and-go crock pot recipes:

They’re easy to make, even for beginner cooks.
They’re healthy and nutritious.
They’re budget-friendly.
They’re versatile. You can make everything from soups and stews to chili and pasta dishes in your crock pot.
They’re convenient. You can set up the crock pot in the morning and come home to a delicious meal ready to eat.

If you’re looking for some easy and delicious dump-and-go crock pot recipes, I’ve got you covered. Keep reading!

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup can be made easy with your crockpot. Just add all the ingredients to your slow cooker and go! Serve it up with crispy tortilla chips, avocado, sour cream & cheddar cheese.

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

Shredded salsa chicken in bowl with lime wedges.

This Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken is an EASY recipe made with just 5-ingredients! Use it as a filling for Chicken Tacos or Chicken Taco Lettuce Wraps.

Crockpot Salsa Chicken

Slow Cooker Cauliflower Soup topped with bacon, cheese and chives is the perfect comfort-food, and it’s keto-friendly! Just add all the ingredients to your crockpot and go!

Slow Cooker Cauliflower Soup

This rich, beefy, and cheesy Slow Cooker Goulash is a winner for family dinners. As the ultimate dump-and-go crockpot recipe, it’s easy to prep hours in advance and uses simple, everyday ingredients. The hearty, comforting bites are always a hit!

Slow Cooker Goulash

Have dinner ready and waiting when you get home! Slow cooker pulled chicken is a stress-free recipe you’ll want to make again and again. Enjoy tender bites of meat piled high on toasted buns!

Recipe: Life Love and Good Food

Slow Cooker Pulled Chicken

This crockpot maple Dijon chicken is an easy, hands-off dinner made with boneless, skinless chicken breasts and a few kitchen staples.

Recipe: Life As A Strawberry

Slow Cooker Maple Dijon Chicken

This might be the easiest chili you ever make. If you can use a can opener, you can make this super flavorful vegan and gluten free chili.

Recipe: Easy Chickpeasy

Slow Cooker White Bean Chili

These slow cooker beer French dips are the perfect set-it-and-forget-it comfort food! With caramelized onions and a rich au jus for dipping.

Recipe: Life As A Strawberry

Slow Cooker Beer French Dips

Make Mississippi Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots in the slow cooker for an easy, hearty, and flavorful meal right on your countertop!

Recipe: Everyday Family Cooking

Mississippi Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots

Crock Pot Balsamic Beef makes tender, juicy beef. Easy slow cooker beef recipe turns chuck roast into a yummy dinner with 5 minutes of prep!

Recipe: I Heart Eating

Crock Pot Balsamic Beef

This slow cooker vegan chili recipe is a vegan twist on this classic comfort food that makes for a healthy dinner packed with nutrients brimming with flavor.

Recipe: Happy Kitchen

Slow Cooker Vegan Chili

Slow Cooker Duck Confit with Cherry Sauce is inspired by our favourite sitcom “Friends”! Very few ingredients, all the flavour!

Recipe: Somebody Feed Seb

Slow Cooker Duck Confit with Cherry Sauce

With just a few minutes of prep in the morning, you can serve up this tasty and comforting Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie for dinner that night!

Recipe: Budget Delicious

Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie

These slow cooker chicken drumsticks are coated in a spice rub and barbecue sauce, then cooked to tender perfection in the crock pot.

Recipe: Dinner At The Zoo

Slow Cooker Chicken Drumsticks

This slow cooker whole chicken is a rotisserie style seasoned chicken made with the help of the crock pot. It’s a super easy dinner option and the leftover chicken can be used in countless other dishes!

Recipe: Dinner At The Zoo

Slow Cooker Whole Chicken

This slow cooker Mongolian beef is flank steak cooked with garlic, ginger, brown sugar and soy sauce. This crock pot recipe is always a hit!

Recipe: Dinner At The Zoo

Slow Cooker Mongolian Beef

Hawaiian Meatballs smothered in a sweet tangy sauce with pineapple and fresh ginger are cooked low and slow in the crock pot.

Recipe: A Southern Soul

Crock Pot Hawaiian Meatballs

This Slow Cooker Garlic Parmesan Chicken Stew is hearty, creamy and loaded with vegetables! The crockpot makes it an easy weeknight meal!

Recipe: The Recipe Rebel

Slow Cooker Garlic Parmesan Chicken Stew

This Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken is SO easy and flavorful, you wouldn’t believe it only has just a few ingredients!

Recipe: The Recipe Rebel

Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken

This easy Slow Cooker Pork Loin recipe includes a flavorful garlic herb rub, and is slow cooked in apple juice for extra flavor!

Recipe: The Recipe Rebel

Easy Slow Cooker Pork Loin Roast

These Quinoa Black Bean Crockpot Stuffed Peppers topped with cilantro, Pepperjack cheese, sour cream, and avocado are making Monday dinners everywhere just a little more wonderful.

Recipe: Pinch of Yum

Quinoa Black Bean Crockpot Stuffed Peppers

Healthy, homemade minestrone soup made in the slower cooker tastes way better than The Olive Gardens! This Minestrone recipe is filled with nutrition.

Recipe: Little Spice Jar

Homemade Minestrone Soup

A curried butternut squash soup recipe made in the slow cooker, with green apples, onions, and carrots. The soup is loaded with curry flavor!

Recipe: Little Spice Jar

Slow Cooker Curried Butternut Squash Soup

A delicious slow cooker ratatouille with summer vegetables. Serve as a side, over rice or quinoa, with a grilled protein or even in an omelet.

Recipe: Eating Bird Food

Slow Cooker Ratatouille

This Thai Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice Soup is tropical, yet cozy! Made with butternut squash, Thai red curry paste, and coconut milk.

Recipe: Sweet Peas and Saffron

Thai Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

A vegetarian Mexican quinoa casserole made entirely in the slow cooker. Packed with sweet potatoes, black beans and taco seasoning, this is sure to be a family favorite!

Recipe: Eating Bird Food

Slow Cooker Cheesy Mexican Quinoa Casserole

This slow cooker chicken wild rice soup is creamy and comforting, but still nourishing with lots of veggies, shredded chicken and wild rice. Added bonus: it’s so easy to whip up, gluten-free + dairy-free.

Recipe: Eating Bird Food

Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup

Slow Cooker Potato and Corn Chowder – The easiest chowder you will ever make. Throw everything in the crockpot and you’re set! Easy peasy!

Recipe: Damn Delicious

Slow Cooker Potato and Corn Chowder

Crockpot Sunday Sauce: a simple-to-put-together family-style meal that smells incredible while cooking away all day, a cozy fall/winter meal!

Recipe: Half Baked Harvest

Crockpot Sunday Sauce

Crockpot Moroccan Lentil and Chickpea Soup – colorful veggies, flavorful spices, all thrown into the crockpot. Come home to heavenly!

Recipe: Half Baked Harvest

Crockpot Moroccan Lentil and Chickpea Soup

This slow cooker ham and potato soup recipe is easy, healthy, and comforting. It’s a delicious set it and forget it dairy-free Crockpot soup recipe.

Recipe: Salt and Lavender

Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup

Just a handful of pantry ingredients are needed to make this irresistible Crockpot chicken thighs recipe! The homemade honey garlic sauce is family-friendly and simple to make.

Recipe: Salt and Lavender

Honey Garlic Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs

Chuck the ingredients in the slow cooker in the morning, and come home to this delicious rustic Crockpot chicken stew! This recipe is healthy, flavorful, filling, and will warm you up on a chilly day.

Recipe: Salt and Lavender

Crockpot Chicken Stew

Crockpot Crispy Pork Ramen: For those nights when you’re craving your favorite bowl of ramen, but want to stay in and be cozy at home!

Recipe: Half Baked Harvest

Crockpot Crispy Pork Ramen

Slow Cooker Potato and Cauliflower Curry: perfect healthy curry recipe that’s comforting, warming, delicious + requires little effort.

Recipe: Half Baked Harvest

Slow Cooker Potato and Cauliflower Curry

Tired of your weeknight dinner regimen? Spice things up with our slow-cooker chicken curry! Rich with coconut milk, chicken breast, crisp veggies, and fresh pumpkin—dinner is ready, set, DONE.

Recipe: The Modern Proper

Slow Cooker Chicken Pumpkin Curry

Just three-ingredients and the use of our trusty slow-cooker make this Crock-Pot taco meat recipe an easy win.

Recipe: The Modern Proper

Crock-Pot Taco Meat

A coconut curry base gets a little zing from fish sauce and apple cider vinegar. Add greens and fluffy white rice and you’ve got our new favorite slow cooker meal.

Recipe: The Modern Proper

Slow Cooker Swimming Rama

This easy, healthy slow cooker recipe is perfect for food prep as the flavours only improve over time. Cook a batch on a Sunday to enjoy throughout the week.

Recipe: Running On Real Food

Slow Cooker Red Lentil Chili

Healthy baked beans from scratch is an easy vegan recipe and perfect side for summer entertaining!

Recipe: The Simple Veganista

Healthy Baked Beans

This ultra flavorful Creamy Tomato Basil Soup is out of this world amazing!

Recipe: The Chunky Chef

Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

This crockpot chicken noodle soup is hearty and comforting, yet incredibly easy to make! No need for a can full of preservatives, homemade is the best!

Recipe: The Chunky Chef

Homemade Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup

Slow Cooker French Onion Soup – Yes, you can make French onion soup in the crockpot! Ridiculously easy with basically no stirring and no work!

Recipe: Damn Delicious

Slow Cooker French Onion Soup

Slow Cooker Asian Short Ribs – Literally fall-off-the-bone tender! And all you have to do is throw everything into a crockpot. That’s it! No cooking at all!

Recipe: Damn Delicious

Slow Cooker Asian Short Ribs

Unbelievably nourishing vegan tikka masala with a hearty serving of veggies & protein from tofu. Make it in your slow cooker for ease!

Recipe: Ambitious Kitchen

Vegan Tofu Tikka Masala

Easy slow cooker pumpkin peanut butter chicken soup made with simple ingredients. Protein packed with cozy flavors you’ll love!

Recipe: Ambitious Kitchen

Slow Cooker Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chicken Soup

This Pork Carnitas recipe is tender, flavorful, and simple to make! It can be served in tacos, burritos, quesadillas, tamales or salads.

Recipe: Tastes Better From Scratch

Pork Carnitas

These Slow Cooker Meatball Subs are extra tender and flavorful thanks to a low and slow simmer in marinara sauce.

Recipe: Budget Bytes

Slow Cooker Meatball Subs

Slow cooker cabbage and sausage is an easy, hands-free way to make a delicious, filling, and cozy meal. Perfect for meal prep!

Recipe: Budget Bytes

Slow Cooker Cabbage and Sausage

Crockpot Chicken Enchilada Casserole is an easy, one-pot meal with chicken, enchilada sauce, black beans, corn tortillas, and cheese.

Recipe: Begin With Balance

Crockpot Chicken Enchilada Casserole

Crock Pot Cranberry Chicken brings together the flavors of tender chicken breast, tangy cranberry sauce, zesty orange juice, sweet brown sugar, fragrant rosemary, and a blend of spices.

Recipe: Flavor Mosaic

Crock Pot Cranberry Rosemary Chicken

Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork Loin is slow-cooked tender pork loin with onion soup mix and whole cranberry sauce.