Slow-Cooker Recipes

Cook your dinner low and slow with slow-cooker recipes by chefs who understand that good things take time.

Slow-cooker recipes are a home chef's secret weapon. They indicate time and care – but often they allow you to set and forget your meal, whether it's a weeknight dinner or a weekend project. From deeply flavoured ramens to chunks of meat and rich pasta sauces, this collection of easy recipes proves that low and slow is the way to go.

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Recipe: Bill Granger’s Spiced, Slow-Cooked Pork Shoulder with Spring Onion Pancakes and Asian Slaw

Food & DrinkNot only is this roast hard to mess up, it produces textbook crackling and fall-apart meat delicately perfumed with soy sauce, star anise, cinnamon and ginger. The end result is so tender, you can cut it with a fork.

Recipe: Hello Auntie’s Pho Dac Biet

Food & DrinkThis recipe may take a while to cook, but the pay-off is a warming, textural home-style version of a classic Vietnamese noodle soup.

Recipe: Ben Shewry’s At-Home Bolognaise

Food & DrinkIf a pasta-heavy diet is getting you through isolation, level up your dinner (or lunchtime toastie) with this perfect, lump-free bolognaise from the chef-owner of Attica, one of Australia’s best restaurants.

Recipe: Matt Moran’s Chicken Soup

Food & DrinkIn a world in turmoil, there’s nothing better than a bowl of hearty chicken soup – one that makes use of the only pasta you can still get your hands on during a pandemic.

Recipe: A Tavola’s Pappardelle Con Ragu

Food & DrinkRich eggy pasta. 150 grams of butter. 400 millilitres of milk. Half a bottle of red wine. This hearty, slow-cooked dish from The Broadsheet Italian Cookbook never fails to satisfy.