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30 Ground Beef Crockpot Recipes For Lazy Cooks
You love the slow cooker for its magical ability to create crowd-pleasing meals with minimal effort on your part. After all, most recipes don't call for much more than dumping in the ingredients and letting the appliance do its thing. Here, you'll find 30 ground beef Crockpot recipes that deliver protein, flavor and low-lift deliciousness that's sure to satisfy. Mouthwatering options include beef chili, hamburger soup and meatballs with grape jelly sauce.
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Katherine Gillen
Time Commitment: 6 hours and 45 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, special occasion-worthy, beginner-friendly
This meaty pasta requires minimal hands-on work to come to fruition (because you don't have all day to babysit a pot of sauce). Finish the set-it-and-forget-it pasta with freshly grated Parm and wash it down with a nice chianti.
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Time Commitment: 4 hours and 25 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, high protein
The recipe calls for ground Italian sausage, but you can easily substitute ground beef for a meatball-inspired spin. The rest is bell peppers, onions, cheese and easy jarred marinara.
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Cook at Home Mom
Time Commitment: 3 hours and 20 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, high protein
Inflation is real, so you can never have too many budget-friendly recipes in your back pocket. Even better, this crowd-pleaser is only eight simple ingredients away.
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Culinary Hill
Sure, you could prepare the filling for these simple handhelds in a skillet. Or you can make it as hands-off as possible and leave it to the slow cooker. Just brown the beef first, then add it to the Crockpot and let it cook for two to three hours on low.
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Cooking with Janica
Time Commitment: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly, kid-friendly
This ground beef Crockpot recipe is designed for your next game day watch party (or any old taco Tuesday). Leave it to Rotel, cream cheese and shredded Colby Jack to check all your dairy-loving boxes.
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Dinner at the Zoo
Whether you serve this punchy, zesty Latin main on buns, atop white rice or with boiled yuca, it's guaranteed to satiate. To make it in the slow cooker, brown the veggies and beef, then add them to the slow cooker with the rest of the components and wait.
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Well Plated by Erin
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 30 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly, kid-friendly
This soul-soother is endlessly riffable. Beef it up with potatoes, cabbage or even pasta, if you feel so inclined. Just don't skip the sharp cheddar cheese on top.
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Feed Me Phoebe
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 20 minutes
Why I Love It: high protein, slow cooker recipe, special occasion-worthy
Swap ground beef in for ground chicken—this warm-spiced delight will turn out just as delicious (or better yet, richer and savorier). The recipe calls for coriander, cumin, turmeric, garam masala and cinnamon.
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Damn Delicious
Time Commitment: 9 hours and 5 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, crowd-pleaser
When in doubt, lean on this dinnertime classic that never gets old. The meatballs are made from a combination of lean ground beef and Italian sausage for good measure.
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The Clean Eating Couple
Time Commitment: 6 hours and 15 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly, make ahead
Come fall, you'll want to whip up this ground beef Crockpot recipe on repeat. Up the ante by finishing your bowl with a dollop of guacamole or sour cream, trust.
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Culinary Hill
Time Commitment: 3 hours and 40 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, special occasion-worthy, beginner-friendly
Don't knock this retro appetizer 'til you try it. The glaze is nothing but chili sauce and store-bought grape jelly. If you want to make it as low-lift as possible, use frozen meatballs instead of making your own.
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Stay Snatched
Time Commitment: 3 hours and 30 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, kid-friendly, high protein
This ground beef Crockpot recipe is peak comfort food. Not only is it packed with meat and dairy, but black beans and chili beans also load it up with a ton of protein and fiber.
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How Sweet Eats
Think of these sandwiches as a sauceless spin on sloppy joes. There's sharp cheddar cheese on top of each burger and mixed into the meat for maximum decadence.
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Mom on Timeout
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 15 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, make ahead, high protein
Bacon and beef unite to create one of the smokiest, most savory side dishes of all time. (Although the beans are high enough in protein and fiber that you can nosh on them solo.) Crumble some corn chips on top if you're feeling indulgent.
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Low Carb Africa
This crowd-pleaser can be prepared on the stove, in the Instant Pot or in the slow cooker. The ground beef Crockpot recipe calls for a modest number of ingredients, most of which are probably already in your kitchen.
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Butter Be Ready
Time Commitment: 8 hours and 10 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, special occasion-worthy, high protein, <10 ingredients
Guava jelly, bottled barbecue sauce and a few pantry staples make this party-starter possible. You can substitute mango, apricot or orange jelly for guava if you'd prefer a tarter flavor profile.
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The Clean Eating Couple
After a quick sear in a hot skillet, the beef is ready to be transferred to the Crockpot and combined with the rest of the soup's components. The recipe calls for stew meat, but ground beef will work just fine (even leftovers).
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All the Healthy Things
Time Commitment: 6 hours and 30 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly, gluten free
Chuck roast, ground beef and leftover shredded beef are all fair game for these loaded spuds. Pile them high with sour cream, avocado, pickled onions and cotija.
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Dinner at the Zoo
Time Commitment: 3 hours and 10 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, kid-friendly, beginner-friendly
These tomato-y sammies are deliciously nostalgic. Finish them with cheese, yellow mustard or chopped raw onions, if you're in the mood for toppings.
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Whitney Bond
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 20 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, make ahead
The key to this soup's zesty flavor is homemade taco seasoning, starring staples like chili powder, ground cumin, garlic powder and paprika. But we won't tell if you substitute a packet of the store-bought stuff instead.
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Brown Sugar Mama
Molasses infuses this ground beef Crockpot recipe with sweet, brown sugary notes, while Worcestershire and barbecue sauces up the acidic umami factor just right. Serve the beans as a side or as a main over rice.
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Low Carb Yum
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 5 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, <10 ingredients, beginner-friendly
Taco Tuesday has never been easier to prepare for. The recipe calls for store-bought taco seasoning, but you could easily supplement pickled jalapeños or chipotles for more heat, plus whatever less-than-flawless veggies you have in the fridge.
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Pig & Quill
Time Commitment: 8 hours and 10 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, special occasion-worthy, make ahead
Once you taste this autumn gem, you'll want to cook it for every fall dinner party you ever host. The sweet-and-savory stew is crowned with plain yogurt, toasted cashews and chives.
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The Typical Mom
Time Commitment: 6 hours and 10 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, high protein, kid-friendly
No need to wait for water to boil here—the dry macaroni cooks directly in the sauce and beef broth instead. Bacon and beef will mask the fact that you used store-bought spaghetti sauce, promise.
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Feel Good Foodie
You could make this family-friendly soup on the stove…but why watch a pot while you can let the slow cooker do the work for you? Add everything to the Crockpot besides the noodles, cook it on high for 5 hours (or low for 8) and add fresh pasta once it's cooked.
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I Am a Food Blog
Ranch seasoning imparts herbaceous, creamy, zesty flavor to this taco-inspired main. While it cooks, stir in extra water or chicken stock if the stew begins to dry out.
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The Mom 100
Time Commitment: 4 hours and 25 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, kid-friendly, beginner-friendly
Set and forget this O.G. Weeknight dinner until the meatballs turn crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. The recipe uses a mixture of pork and beef, along with fresh parsley and finely grated Parm.
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Half Baked Harvest
Time Commitment: 6 hours and 20 minutes
Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, special occasion-worthy, beginner-friendly
Ground beef and spicy Italian sausage unite in a bubbling pool of vodka sauce simmered with a Parmesan rind, just as Nonna intended. Take your pick of long or short pasta—the sauce is the real star.
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Everyday Healthy Recipes
The O.G. Calls for ground turkey and cooking the meatballs on the stove, but you can easily turn it into a ground beef Crockpot recipe. The sticky glaze is a duo of pre-made sauces and sesame oil.
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The Modern Proper
Time Commitment: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, make ahead
Whether you use it to bulk up burritos, quesadillas, rice bowls, tacos or salads, this three-ingredient ground beef Crockpot recipe won't disappoint. (And it's virtually impossible to mess up.)
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Morel Mushroom Chili Recipe
Here's my favorite morel mushroom chili recipe – if you're looking for some serious comfort food, look no further. Feel free to adapt this to your dining preferences and have fun working in different ingredients as you see fit (I have beef listed, but you can use whatever meat you most enjoy – this recipe is dynamite with wild game, and I think my all-time favorite mushroom chili recipe version was when we did this with elk — you can also go completely meat-free and work in your favorite proteins of choice.) I'm listing canned beans & tomatoes here for a standard quantity reference, but obviously, we celebrate homegrown, and if you dry/can/preserve your own, just use roughly the same amount.
20 Foolproof Crockpot Dump Recipes You Can Try
Crockpots can make cooking lunches and dinners easy, but not when the recipe requires additional boiling, sauteing, browning, or other cooking. Enter the "dump recipe," a simple way of cooking in which a bunch of ingredients can be dumped into your slow cooker and allowed to cook for an extended period of time, with the only required prep being some chopping or mixing. (You may need to shred meat or add additional ingredients for a few of these, but not until your meal is already close to being done.) Skip the super sophisticated recipes this spring and celebrate April—and beyond—with these "foolproof" crockpot dump recipes.
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A baked ziti recipe that doesn't require boiling? It is indeed possible, and The Kitchn can show you how it's done. Spoiler: You just put pasta, sauce, ricotta, and mozzarella in your crockpot and let it do all the work, which can take as little as an hour on high.
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Beef broth, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and garlic go into your crockpot along with thinly sliced chuck roast. Add the broccoli and stir in a mixture of cornstarch and water 30 minutes before it's done, and you've got yourself a simple yet satisfying meal. Get the details from Damn Delicious.
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Not only does the slow cooker do all the work for this beef brisket recipe from Lil' Luna, but it only requires five ingredients: brisket, dry onion soup mix, garlic powder, brown sugar, and chili sauce. After 8-10 hours on low, all that's left to do is shred or slice the beef!
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You'll need to use an immersion blender and add the cream before serving this carrot ginger soup, but that's at least 3 hours after dumping all the other ingredients in your crockpot. The Busy Baker can spare some time to show you how to make this one.
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For this meal, all you need to do is chuck your tortellini in the pot; add your sauce, water, spinach, and mozzarella; and cook on high for about an hour. Please note that the recipe from The Kitchn is for fresh tortellini, so if you're using the frozen variety, you'll need to thaw them first.
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Chicken & shrimp gumboLiliowiec / Shutterstock.Com
Start by putting chicken, red peppers, tomato, onion, celery, and spices in your slow cooker. Then just set it on low for six hours, and kick back. If you want to add shrimp, AllRecipes suggests doing it three minutes before the whole thing is done.
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A bag of dried bean soup mix makes this slow cooker meal from Dinner at the Zoo even easier. It also contains ham, onion, celery, garlic, tomatoes, and a blend of spices, but you can skip the meat for a vegetarian-friendly version.
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This recipe from Real Housemoms can tell you how to make both sauce and meatballs from scratch, and then it all goes into the slow cooker for 7-8 hours on low. Short on prep time? You can instead use sauce from a jar and pre-made frozen meatballs, which only require about 3-4 hours on low.
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We absolutely adore this melt-in-your-mouth meatloaf recipe from Taste of Home. It's moist, flavorful, and your slow cooker does all the work. Mix up eggs, milk, minced onion, salt, rubbed sage, and breadcrumbs; crumble ground beef over this concoction; roll the whole thing into a ball, and stick it in the slow cooker for 5-6 hours on high (or 2-3 on low). Just before it's done, slather the loaf in a ketchup-based concoction—although personally, we swap the ketchup for a 50/50 mix of ketchup and barbecue sauce.
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Moroccan chickpea soupToyakisphoto / Shutterstock.Com
Although it also contains butternut squash, red lentils, red peppers, tomatoes, onions, and ginger, chickpeas are obviously the star of this Moroccan stew from Simply Quinoa. As the website name suggests, it is recommended that you serve it with a side of quinoa.
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This really simple recipe from Don't Waste the Crumbs only requires five ingredients. You layer potatoes, carrots, and chuck roast in your crockpot, cover the whole thing with dry onion soup mix and cream of mushroom soup and cook on low for at least eight hours. Just before you're ready to eat, shred the beef!
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Whisk together paprika, salt, garlic powder, and brown sugar, and spread the mixture over a pork shoulder roast. This recipe from Betty Crocker includes both low and high heat options, but we prefer the former, which takes 7 to 8 hours. After shredding the pork, adding barbecue sauce, and cooking for an additional 10-15 minutes, it's ready to be nestled inside a bun. (We like to add a scoop of coleslaw, too.)
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We're not sure if Remy the rat would approve of making ratatouille in a slow cooker, but Taste of Home does, and that makes it OK in our book. After seasoning your eggplant and chopping it along with tomatoes, zucchini, onions, green and yellow peppers, olives, garlic, and basil, these ingredients and a couple of others go into the pot for 3-4 hours on high.
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It's difficult to find a recipe easier than this salsa chicken from The Typical Mom. Place chicken breasts in the bottom of your slow cooker, top with salsa, add some extra onions (and optional peppers), sprinkle taco seasoning, and cook on high for four hours. You can eat the chicken whole, shred it for a rice bowl, or use it as a taco filling.
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Seafood cioppinoThienne Johnson / Shutterstock.Com
Seafood cioppino is a warm blend of both fish and shellfish in a tomato-based broth. This version from Taste of Home uses haddock, shrimp, clams, and crabmeat, all of which are stirred into the slow cooker 30 minutes before it's done.
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The most work for this chicken & sweet potato chili recipe from Taste of Home is chopping the potatoes, chicken, onion, and garlic—and we buy dried minced onion and minced garlic, which takes out half of that work. It's so easy that the recipe only includes one step: putting everything other than the toppings into the slow cooker.
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A hearty tomato-based soup loaded with vegetables is the perfect cure for a rainy April evening. Feel free to include your favorite ingredients (and exclude ones you don't like), but this version from Real Food—Whole Life features celery, carrots, green beans, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and a handful of spices.
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White chicken chiliAS Food studio / Shutterstock.Com
Juicy chicken, whole kernel corn, green chilis, and cannellini beans are the highlights of this white chicken chili from the Magical Slow Cooker. These ingredients and a mixture of spices go into the pot, and in as little as four hours, it's ready to shred, garnish, and enjoy.
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