Easy summer slow cooker recipes
Don’t turn the oven on! We’ve rounded up our favourite summer-friendly slow cooker recipes
Slow cookers aren’t just for winter stews – you can cook light summer dishes in them, too (and not heat up your whole house by turning the oven on in the process). From punchy prawn and chorizo jambalaya to a zesty Spanish-style rice and fragrant hands-off curries, we’ve got all the heatwave-proof slow cooker recipes you’ll need this summer. And there’s even a pud – we’ve made crème brûlée even creamier thanks to a clever slow-cooking method.
Slow cooker prawn and chorizo jambalaya
This easy jambalaya requires very minimal prep. Simply pop all the ingredients into your slow cooker and let it do the work.
Slow cooker chicken fajitas
Pile into wraps and top with all the fixings.
Recipe: Slow cooker chicken fajitas
Tomato, kimchi and butter bean stew
Kimchi is the secret to this stew’s punchy flavour.
Slow cooker roast chicken
Yes, you can cook a whole chicken in the slow cooker!
Recipe: Slow cooker roast chicken
Slow cooker chicken cacciatore
This chicken cacciatore recipe is made for the slow cooker – easy and delicious.
Recipe: Slow cooker chicken cacciatore
Slow cooker butter chicken
The slow cooker makes this restaurant favourite easy to achieve at home.
Recipe: Slow cooker butter chicken
Slow cooker heuvos rancheros
Traditionally enjoyed for breakfast, this twist on the Mexican favourite makes a nutritious midweek meal.
Recipe: Slow cooker heuvos rancheros
Slow cooker cheat’s macaroni cheese
No white sauce to make here – just throw it all in for easy-peasy comfort food.
Slow cooker Spanish-style rice
This vegan take on paella is packed full of flavour and very simple to make.
Recipe: Slow cooker Spanish-style rice
Slow cooker sweet potato jalfrezi
This spicy curry is packed full of veggies.
Slow cooker Thai red curry
This slow-cooker chicken curry is so easy to prepare and seriously comforting to eat.
Recipe: Slow cooker Thai red curry
Slow cooker vegetable tagine
Let the slow cooker do the hard work in this simple tagine recipe.
Recipe: Slow cooker vegetable tagine
Slow cooker crème brûlée
A gentle water bath in your crockpot or slow cooker cooks these individual desserts to creamy perfection.
Recipe: Slow cooker crème brûlée
Slow cooker Thai green curry
This Thai classic is packed full of warming flavours and so easy to make.
Recipe: Slow cooker Thai green curry
Slow cooker butter halloumi curry
We’ve turned the classic butter chicken curry recipe vegetarian by using halloumi.
An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).
Toffee pecan flapjack traybake recipe
The best strawberry recipes
Souper green soup
Glorious green fregola pasta salad recipe
