3-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes You Can Throw Together Before Work

I love the slow cooker. It’s such a great tool if you don’t like making dinner or if you’re short on time. I’ve always been surprised by some slow cooker cookbooks, though—with recipes that feature 10, 15, even 20+ ingredients, it seems like this appliance that is meant for easy cooking can get pretty complicated if you let it. I don’t have time for that. My goal for cooking any meal in the slow cooker is to find recipes that are as tasty and as easy as possible. That’s why these 3 ingredient slow cooker recipes are key staples in my household. These are just about the easiest slow cooker recipes that you can find, and better yet, they all turn out totally tasty. Check them out in the slideshow.

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3-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Toss only three ingredients into your slow cooker for this easy sweet and sour chicken recipe. Serve over rice or your favorite steamed vegetables.

Recipe and photo: Seeded at the Table
Beef Tacos

You are just three ingredients, one Crock-Pot, and six hours away from the best taco meat ever.

Recipe and photo: Frugal Foodie Mama
Pot Roast

Seriously, three ingredients and less than two minutes prep time and dinner, this amazing three ingredient pot roast, will be slow cooked for you. Bonus? You’ll more than likely have enough for dinner another night, too.

Recipe and photo: Call Me PMc
BBQ Dr. Pepper Drumsticks

These Crock-Pot drumsticks, made with a delicious blend of BBQ sauce and Dr. Pepper, are just what the doctor ordered! SO yummy.

Recipe and photo: The Frugal Girls
Apple Cinnamon Chicken

I’m sure the name of this dish gives away the ingredients right? Chicken, apples, and cinnamon…that’s it.

Recipe and photo: Mommy Hates Cooking
Chicken and Gravy

With just a few pantry items you can whip up this three-ingredient chicken and gravy in no time.

Recipe and photo: 365 Days of Slow Cooking
Chili

This easy to make, delicious to eat, easy three-ingredient chili recipe has three basic ingredients that you can build upon to make your ultimate chili that’s perfect for your next football party.

Recipe and photo: I Heart Naptime
Pulled Pork

This three-ingredient pulled pork is one of the tastiest (and easiest) pulled pork recipes ever. The pork always comes out juicy and moist with a subtle sweetness that is second to none.

Recipe and photo: Sweet Phi

Karen Petersen is a cookbook author and food blogger at 365 Days of Slow Cooking. Mostly she writes about the new foods and recipes she's been making at her home for her husband and two children. She loves easy recipes that are full of flavor. She is a crockpot connoisseur and has created over 1000 slow cooker recipes in the past 5 1/2 years. She loves dessert more than anything else in the whole world and likes to plan it, make it, eat it, talk about it while eating it and then review it after it's gone. You can also visit Karen on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Pinterest.