The Most Popular Slow Cooker Recipes on Pinterest

Though it’s possible to cook certain kinds of pasta from scratch in a slow cooker, this recipe calls for adding previously boiled spaghetti (and cheese) to a long-cooked sauce and letting it simmer for another 20 minutes. The original post of this recipe, on a site called The Magical Slow Cooker, was sponsored by Ragu sauce, which is one of the reciper’s principal ingredients.

As with the popular slow cooker baked spaghetti recipe, this one calls for jarred sauce (brand not specified). In this case, though, raw pasta is added to the slow cooker with the other ingredients and cooks for about an hour in the sauce.

Toronto-based software engineer and food blogger Kevin Lynch calls his site Closet Cooking, a reference to his tiny kitchen. This recipe for falling-apart beef is best made with a tough but flavorful cut like chuck, round, or brisket. His post was sponsored by Ontario Corn Fed Beef, and not surprisingly, he recommends using that product.

Minnesota blogger Lindsay Ostrom describes the formula for this creamy soup, on her Pinch of Yum site, as “a re-make of an old recipe that was inspired by a friend.” She recommends using premade gnocchi manufactured by DeLallo, which sponsored her post.

Blogging from South Carolina, Christin Mahrlig signals her culinary preferences by calling her site Spicy Southern Kitchen. She went to school in New Orleans, at Tulane University, and calls this classic dish one of her favorite foods from the city. Because it includes tomatoes as well as the so-called “holy trinity” of onion, celery, and bell pepper, it would be considered a Creole version of the dish. The typical Cajun interpretation would have more meat and no tomatoes.

Korean-American food blogger Chungah Rhee credits her presence on Pinterest with having turned her site, Damn Delicious, from a casual hobby into what Delish has described as “a cooking empire,” employing a team of videographer, food stylists, operations manager, and brand manager. She worked up this vegetable-heavy recipe one spring night several years ago, she writes, when she was craving take-out food but realized that bikini season was approaching, so she thought something lower in calories would be preferable.

Utah-based blogger Tiffany Edwards of Creme de la Crumb notes that cooks who find the orzo pasta too mushy when it’s added to the slow cooker can cook it separately in chicken broth and serve it on the side.

Ali Martin’s Gimme Some Oven blog gave away two Crock-Pots, supplied by the manufacturer, when it published this recipe in 2014. It calls for thickening the teriyaki sauce from the slow cooker with cornstarch before adding it to the cooked, shredded chicken breasts.

This recipe appeared on the website of the popular food magazine Taste of Home. Ironically, it was originally published in 2007 under the name Rosemary Beef Potatoes in Taste of Home’s Simple & Delicious publication devoted to “fast cooking.”

Classic stroganoff, apparently named for a Russian count in the late 19th century, is made with beef and mushrooms. It became a popular dish in the U.S. after World War II. This slow cooker update, from Alyssa Rivers’ blog The Recipe Critic, which substitutes chicken for beef, obviously appeals to many people, too: It outpaces its closest competitor in number of saves by 125,000 to become the single most saved slow cooker recipe on Pinterest to date.