21 low-carb slow cooker recipes

Yes, you can still enjoy a hearty stew of beef, mushrooms, carrots, celery, radishes, and peas while on a low-carb diet. And yes, you can also make that beef stew easily in your slow cooker. Wholesome Recipe Box can show you how to make a stew with nine carbs per serving.

Beef stroganoff is simpler than you’d think, as this recipe from Seeking Good Eats calls for just stew beef, mushroom soup, onion soup mix, mushrooms, sour cream, and cream cheese. It’s as tender as it is creamy and contains fewer than 8 carbs per serving. Instead of carb-heavy noodles, rice, or potatoes, try it with riced cauliflower. 

Plump brats mixed with sauerkraut and onion can be enjoyed with barely any work — and just 8 carbs per serving. With this recipe from Whole Lotta Yum, you only need five ingredients (and one of them is beer!), all of which can be thrown into a slow cooker for four hours. If you want your brats browned, sear them for a few minutes first.

Breakfast casseroles are already a simple way to feed a big family or multiple guests, and it only gets easier with the addition of a slow cooker. Try this one from PaleoHacks with sausage, red onion, and red and green peppers, or mix in your favorite low-carb ingredients. The PaleoHacks version clocks in at only five carbs.

Clocking in at just nine carbs and 371 calories per serving, this creamy, cheesy cauliflower soup from Real Housemoms can be made entirely in your crock pot. Plus, it includes bacon! (And cauliflower, cheddar, chicken broth, heavy cream, garlic, and a few more ingredients.)

Italian cooking and the ease of the crock pot combine to make this chicken cacciatore recipe from Wholesome Yum one of our favorites. You’ll need some chicken breasts, red peppers, diced tomatoes, onion, garlic, a few spices, and about four hours to let the slow cooker work its magic. Each serving of this meal contains just 10 carbs.

Chicken wings are a wonderful dinner option — or game day appetizer — for when you’d like to treat yourself without compromising your low-carb diet. This simple crock pot buffalo wings recipe from That Low Carb Life is mostly made with common kitchen ingredients and contains only a single carb. (Note: Although the slow cooker does almost all of the work, you’ll want to broil the wings for 2-3 minutes at the very end to get that perfectly crispy skin.)

With all the ingredients that go into this chili from Low Carb Spark — things like ground beef, tomatoes, red pepper, onion, celery, and garlic — it’s hard to believe each serving has only nine carbs. Be sure to scroll to the crock pot section of the recipe!

This recipe from All Day I Dream About Food might become your favorite chocolate cake recipe, but not because of the taste (although it’s wicked good). Instead, you’ll love how easy it is to make — just 10 minutes of prep — and the fact that it only contains 8 carbs per serving. 

You’ve probably had pork tenderloin before — possibly even from a slow cooker — but not like this! This pork loin from The Best Keto Recipes is covered in an Asian spice rub and simmered in ginger garlic sauce, keeping it moist and full of flavor. Only three carbs per serving allow you some wiggle room with your side dishes.

Want fall-off-the-bone chicken that’s so good you’ll fall off your chair? Try this jerk chicken recipe from Real Simple Good. As the blog name suggests, it’s a simple recipe that starts with a quick rub and then moves to a skillet for a few minutes before letting the crock pot handle the rest. The spice mixture makes this chicken full of flavor but not carbs — it has just five carbs per serving.

You might be wondering how lasagna can be a low-carb meal. The answer: using both zucchini and eggplant instead of pasta! This recipe from Well Plated by Erin still includes tomato sauce and mozzarella, of course, but instead of ricotta, it calls for cottage cheese. The recipe comes highly rated, especially since it somehow manages to keep the carbs at 22 per serving.

Seriously, if you love your slow cooker and haven’t used it to make cake yet, you’re missing out! If the previous chocolate confection didn’t appeal to you, try this lemon poke cake from All Day I Dream About Food. It’s sugar-free, grain-free, and only contains 7 carbs per slice. (And if you need just a bit more convincing, we’ll mention that a poke cake is a dessert in which you poke holes so the frosting/topping can seep into the cake.)

If you’re looking for a satisfying side dish that won’t waste all your allotted carbs, try this crock pot mashed cauliflower from Wicked Spatula. Ten minutes of prep, five ingredients, and only 8 carbs per serving is all you’ll need for this one. The recipe is also paleo-friendly, as it uses ghee instead of butter.

Chuck roast can have a tough texture but becomes fork-tender when cooked in the crock pot low and slow for 7 hours. This version from Healthy Recipes Blog is simple and needs only salt, pepper, onion, garlic, parsley, and beef broth — including the from-scratch gravy! Serve it with your favorite side, as this main course has less than one carb. 

A creamy pumpkin soup that’s keto-friendly? Sign us up, especially if it can be made in the slow cooker, like this recipe from Green and Keto. We don’t want to undersell the simplicity of this one — if you possess pumpkin puree, chicken broth, heavy cream, a stocked spice cabinet, and 10 minutes of prep time, you already have everything you need to make this tasty meal. 

Salmon in the slow cooker is one of our favorite shortcuts. Well, not short in terms of time, but instead effort — you just put everything into the pot, and Diethood even suggests putting the whole slow cooker in the oven to brown the salmon at the end. You’ll have to cook the creamy lemon sauce on the stove, but it’s a cinch. Each serving — one prepared filet — contains 7 carbs. 

This spinach artichoke dip from Keto Karma combines spinach, artichoke hearts, sour cream, onion, garlic, and three types of cheese — at a cost of just 3 carbs per serving. And not only can you make the whole thing in your slow cooker, but it’s not really that slow, only requiring about two hours of time!

Bring a little taste of Italy to your kitchen with just seven ingredients and about five hours of slow cooker time with this Tuscan chicken recipe from Keen for Keto. It features chicken thighs, sun-dried tomatoes, basil, garlic, and heavy cream, but only two carbs.

Keeping vegetable soup low in carbs can be a tricky feat, which is why we love this lentil-free vegetable soup recipe from Bites of Wellness. It includes cauliflower rice, peppers, zucchini, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, and onions, but only about 14 carbs per serving.

This side couldn’t be simpler. Cut up some squash & zucchini, put them in the crock pot, add your seasonings, and cook on low for 4-6 hours. This version from Low Carb Yum contains just five carbs per serving.