9 Slow-Cooker Recipes You'll Definitely Want To Make This Winter Slideshow

A slow-cooker is the perfect tool to use on busy nights. You just put all your ingredients in the vessel and walk away. No sweating over the stove rushing to get dinner done —the slow-cooker does it all for you. The best part about a slow-cooker is that you can use it to make hearty soups, appetizers, main dishes — you can even make dessert. The traditional uses for this wonderful appliance are to make a soup like that offered by Food Fash, or a vegan chili like Sweet and Spicy Monkey's. But you can also get creative and use a slow-cooker to make a coconut cake. Living Sweet Moments just dumped the batter in and walked away. That's the best part — walking away. 

I have learned that the easiest way to feed a crowd is to break out the slow-cooker. You can make a simple four-ingredient chicken taco, and kept it warm in the slow-cooker so your friends can assemble tacos whenever they want. — The Kiitchen 

For the 4-Ingredient Taco Chicken recipe, click here.

Pour all of your soup ingredients escept the garnish in the slow-cooker and let it cook for three-and-a-half hours. When the soup is done, top it with cilantro and avocado for a spicy and warming recipe.

For the Slow-Cooker Sort-of Tortilla Soup recipe, click here.

It's so hearty and full of flavor, you'll never miss the meat. This recipe uses four different types of beans: black, red kidney, pinto, and small red beans, along with quinoa and barley to give this chili its heartiness. — Sweet and Spicy Monkey

For the Vegan Chile recipe, click here.

Here's another take on slow-cooker vegan chili, also so good that you will not miss the meat. What makes this chili special is not the three kinds of beans, nor the colorful bell peppers; it is the star ingredient...butternut squash. —Watch Learn Eat

For the Slow-Cooker Vegan Chili recipe, click here.