Everyone can eat meatless! These creative, flavorful meatless slow cooker recipes show you how — with or without beans!
With so many people cooking at home these days — and grocery stores running out of common staples — folks are looking for creative fresh ways to feed families. These 19 meatless slow cooker recipes are a great place to stop.
Filled with a variety of ingredients and flavors, these recipes are easy, wholesome and delightful. All you need is a slow cooker (and the ingredients) to try them all.
But why eat meatless?
For starters, meatless meals can be budget-friendly ways to extend the food in your fridge, freezer and pantry. From inexpensive beans to an array of veggies, there’s many ways to mix, match and combine ingredients for a variety of results.
Plus, meatless slow cooker recipes are easy to toss together and so, so tasty too.
Meatless eating has long been a cornerstone of dining in my house. I am a former vegetarian who gave up the lifestyle due to health reasons. But I never really abandoned the desire to eat less meat. Over the years, studies about how eating less red meat helps control asthma symptoms and how more plant-based eating can be a boon for the environment have only underscored this.
But I will admit: I am not perfect. I don’t have a flawless plan for eating meatless meals on x amount of days per week. In fact, some weeks — in the time before the endless month of March — we did have meat-filled meals every day.
I try. I do my best. I keep plugging along.
But really, and this is the important part, the current state of things has me grocery shopping far less. It also has me home, cooking from the pantry often. We have meat in the freezer, but I am trying to stretch it as far as it will go. So eating meatless a few times a week is a must.
Is it for you too?
I hope these recipes help you eat better, shop less and manage your grocery budget more. Bon appetit!
Meatless Slow Cooker Recipes
Everyone can eat meatless! These creative, flavorful meatless slow cooker recipes show you how — with or without beans!
A whole head of cabbage is drizzled with a spice oil and then slow cooked to tender perfection. It's delightful served with rice and another curried dish.
Thick and satisfying, this recipe for Slow Cooker Tomato Lentil Soup is flavored with garam masala, lemongrass, onions and more. It's delightful and warming on a cool day.
Fragrant and flavorful, this slow cooker ratatouille recipe is easy and satisfying.
Believe it or not, chili can be made healthy without loads of saturated fat and calories with this amazing Crockpot Vegan Chili that even has meat-eaters licking their lips.
This recipe is a very easy way to get a restaurant-style chana masala at home that is full of flavor.
Couscous filled peppers with Moroccan flavors are a delicious departure from the rice and ground beef stuffed peppers you might remember from childhood.
This protein-packed Vegetarian Three Bean & Lentil Chili recipe simmers away in your slow cooker all day to hearty perfection.
This easy, throw everything in your Slow Cooker Cauliflower Soup recipe results in a creamy healthy soup is ready for your family in 4 hours!
This budget-friendly Slow Cooker Italian Harvest Soup is easy to make and SO flavorful!
This delicious slow cooker vegetable curry is not only seriously easy to make but insanely healthy and cost-effective too — plus, it’s naturally vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free and freezes really well!
If you're looking for quick and easy comfort food to make in the slow cooker, Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese is the way to go.
This delicious mung bean soup is vegan, gluten free and loaded with veggies.
Slow Cooker Lentil Soup is a vegan lentil soup that is full of rich Mediterranean spices and vitamin rich vegetables.
This crockpot lasagna is made with spinach, mushrooms and ricotta cheese for a hearty meatless meal.
Vegetarian feijoada, which is also vegan and gluten-free, is a black bean and vegetable stew loaded with plant-based protein and fiber.
Slow cooker budget bean burritos are the perfect recipe for feeding the family and letting you get on with other things in the meantime.
North African inspired Moroccan Stew is not your average vegetable stew — It's filled with lentils, chickpeas and veggies simmered in the most delicious veggie broth with exotic spices like cinnamon, cumin, allspice and coriander.
This creamy Easy Crockpot Potato Soup Recipe can be thrown together in a few minutes.
This Crockpot vegetarian pasta e fagioli soup recipe is a hearty and flavorful meatless meal that is easy to throw together so you have a hot meal ready with minimal effort.
Tony
Wednesday 8th of April 2020
Please give directions for using the recipes in an instant pot! Thank You. Tony
Sarah Walker Caron
Saturday 11th of April 2020
Hi Tony, unfortunately, this is a roundup of slow cooker recipes. You'll want to Google "meatless Instant Pot" recipes to find what you are looking for. Best wishes!
Kate
Friday 3rd of April 2020
Meat isn't the problem round these parts, just canned items!