Crock Pot Recipes – 5 Dinners & 2 Desserts
There are so many great (and healthy!) recipes you can make using a crock pot. Not only does it save time, it also saves on having multiple pots and pans to clean when the meal is ready! Here are a few of my recent crock pot recipe finds.
There are 5 main course recipes and 2 dessert recipes (because, well… you know, dessert!).
Do you use your slow cooker/crockpot? How often do you use it to cook? Let me know in the comments.
Main Courses
Skinny Pineapple Salsa Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 2 cups organic salsa your choice: hot, medium or mild
- 3 zucchini, diced
- 20 oz. can pineapple chunks in 100% juice reserve juice
- 3/4 cup pineapple juice from can
Optional
- jasmine or brown rice, quinoa or sprouted whole grain tortillas
- shredded mozzarella cheese
- green onion
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Cover chicken completely with salsa.
- Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Depending on how much liquid is expelled during the cooking process, you may need to drain some liquid before the next step...shred chicken.
- One hour before serving, chop the zucchini into bite-size pieces and add to the chicken mixture.
- Drain the pineapple juice into a separate bowl. Add pineapple to the slow cooker and 3/4 cup of juice.
- Serve on tortillas or with your favorite side dish!
Clean Eating Crock Pot Orange Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast chopped into cubes
- 1 cup real or fresh-squeezed orange juice
- 1/4 cup raw organic honey
- 1 tsp marjoram
- 2 small oranges
Instructions
- Add the chicken breasts to the crock pot.
- Mix the other ingredients together and pour over the chicken.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3.
- Open the orange and add the segments into the pot and stir.
- Cook for a further 15 minutes.
- Serve over rice, couscous or quinoa.
Crockpot Pork Tenderloin
Ingredients
- 2 pounds pork tenderloin or two small tenderloins
- 1/4 cup Bragg's Liquid Aminos a healthy substitute for soy sauce
- 1.5 tsp yellow mustard
- 2 T olive oil
- 3 T pure maple syrup
- 1 shallot chopped
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1.5 tsp garlic powder
Instructions
- Turn crock pot on to low.
- In large measuring cup, add all the ingredients for the marinade and mix.
- Place tenderloin in the crock pot. Pour marinade over tenderloin.
- Cook on low for about 5 hours for two small tenderloins or 6 hours for one large piece.
- Slice and serve pouring the juices over the meat.
- Recommended but not necessary: Turn the pork twice to ensure even cooking at 2 hours and 4 hours, pouring the juices all over
Notes
Serve with roasted sweet potatoes, a leafy green salad or any veggie of choice.
Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 1 pound round steak cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 T olive oil flavored olive oil works well: basil, rosemary or garlic-chile pepper
- 1 large white onion chopped
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- 2 cups potatoes cut into 3/4 inch chunks
- 4 celery sticks cleaned and chopped
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped
- 1.5 tsp dried thyme or 1 T fresh thyme
- 3 bay leaves
- 2 cups beef broth
- 1 cup red wine
- 1 can (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes
Instructions
- Rub the meat with oil, salt and pepper. Let it sit at room temperature while preparing the other vegetables.
- Prepare all vegetables and add them to the slow cooker.
- Place round steak on top of veggies.
- Add the broth, wine, tomatoes, thyme, bay leaves, and a little salt and pepper.
- Cover the slow cooker and cook on low 8 hours, or until the meat is fork tender.
Notes
Recommend a 4-6 quart slow cooker.
Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless chuck roast sliced into thin strips
- 2-3 cups fresh broccoli florets
- 1 apple thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup beef stock
- 1/3 cup coconut aminos found on Amazon, Whole Foods or other health food stores as fruitful yield
- 1/3 cup Raw honey
- 3 cloves garlic minced
Instructions
- Combine together the beef stock, coconut aminos, honey, garlic and sliced apple in the slow cooker.
- Add the beef and stir.
- Set slow cooker to low and cook for 4 to 5 hours.
- Add the broccoli and cook for another 30 min.
Notes
Desserts
Crock Pot Pumpkin Pie Pudding
Ingredients
- 3 T melted coconut oil or butter
- 3 cups pureed pumpkin
- 2 cups coconut milk You can use full fat or light, preferably from a can.
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup natural sweetener of choice I used a mixture of palm sugar and maple syrup
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1.5 T vanilla extract
- 3 T coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Use a little of the melted coconut oil or butter to grease the inside of the crock pot.
- Then add all ingredients and stir to combine. If you want a really even, creamy texture you can whip it all up in a blender or use a stick blender right in the crock pot first. I just used a lot of elbow grease until the pumpkin lumps were smoothed out.
- Cover crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Pudding will get a crust on top and start to brown on edges (as shown below), but still be pudding-like underneath.
Notes
You can serve with raw walnuts, pecans or even some shredded unsweetened coconut on top. Have this as a dessert or as a breakfast.
Crock Pot Cinnamon Honey Buns
Ingredients
Dough
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 5 T coconut oil or grass-fed butter
- 2 T Honey
- dash salt
Topping
- 1 cup Honey
- 4 T coconut oil or grass-fed butter melted
- 1 T Cinnamon
Instructions
- Mix all of the dough ingredients together until it reaches a good consistency.
- Next form into 7-8 medium sized balls of dough.
- After the balls of dough are formed, melt the butter, and mix that with the honey and cinnamon.
- Dip each dough ball into the topping mixture and place into the crock pot.
- If you have a large crock pot, you will want to double the recipe for the dough, but not the topping. You will have plenty. If you have a smaller crock pot, the amount of dough should be fine and you can pour the unused topping over the dough balls.
- Cook in crock pot on low for 1 to 1.5 hours.
Notes
