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Slow-Cooker Recipes

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

Slow-cooker recipes are a home chef's secret weapon. They indicate time and care – but in reality 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: Chin Chin’s Massaman Curry Is a Hit for a Reason

Recipe: Chin Chin’s Massaman Curry Is a Hit for a Reason

More than 500 plates of this coconutty beef curry hit tables at the Melbourne and Sydney restaurants each week – cook it at home and find out why.

Recipe: The Beef Rendang Tony Tan Says Is “Fit for a King”

Recipe: The Beef Rendang Tony Tan Says Is “Fit for a King”

Tan says this dish is “possibly the most magnificent Indonesian culinary export”. A long, slow cook results in a rendang that’s “succulent, richly complex and delicious”.

Recipe: A Perfectly Juicy Pot-Roasted Chicken From du Fermier’s Annie Smithers

Recipe: A Perfectly Juicy Pot-Roasted Chicken From du Fermier’s Annie Smithers

Everyone needs a go-to roast chicken recipe, and this one could be it. French-style, it requires a bit of butter and oil, a decent glug of white wine and a homemade stock for extra juiciness.

Recipe: Meatsmith’s Slow-Cooked Georgian Lamb Stew

Recipe: Meatsmith’s Slow-Cooked Georgian Lamb Stew

This traditional dish known as chanakhi braises spring lamb with potato, tomato, eggplant and capsicum finished with fresh herbs.

Recipe: Oven-Baked Lamb and Potatoes Lemonato From a Melbourne Greek Institution

Recipe: Oven-Baked Lamb and Potatoes Lemonato From a Melbourne Greek Institution

Celebrate Orthodox Easter with a recipe from one of Melbourne’s best-loved Greek restaurants, Stalactites. Here, the flavours of a spit-roasted lamb are recreated for the oven.

Recipe: A Rich (and Simple-To-Make) Pork Ragout With Mafaldine Pasta From a Breezy Beachside Diner

Recipe: A Rich (and Simple-To-Make) Pork Ragout With Mafaldine Pasta From a Breezy Beachside Diner

A former Totti’s chef is on the pans at Bobby’s in Cronulla. We can’t bring you its right-on-the-beach views, but we can bring you its recipe for a classic pork ragout, made all the better with pasta-of-the-moment, mafaldine.

Recipe: Totti’s Campanelle With Milk-Braised Pork and Chilli

Recipe: Totti’s Campanelle With Milk-Braised Pork and Chilli

This sauce of pork ragout and a spike of chilli, here perfectly teamed with the ruffles of campanelle, has been a hit at the hugely popular restaurant since it opened in Bondi in 2018. Here’s how to make it at home.

Recipe: The Butler’s Low-and-Slow-Cooked Lamb Barbacoa Tacos

Recipe: The Butler’s Low-and-Slow-Cooked Lamb Barbacoa Tacos

The Sydney restaurant’s head chef Amber Doig says this ancient way of cooking meat is “not just a meal – it’s an event, a celebration”. The hours of cooking are worth it for the result: an “unmistakable, primal flavour of earth and time”.

Recipe: Put On Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Weekend Sauce and Let It Simmer Into Magnificence

Recipe: Put On Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Weekend Sauce and Let It Simmer Into Magnificence

It’s the ideal Sunday dish that splutters away on the stove as you do other things. It’s from her new cookbook, Around the Table, which is here to provide the perfect dish for whatever occasion you might have, the weather or time of day.

Recipe: It’s a Big Call, but Khanh Nguyen Reckons This Is Possibly His Favourite Soup of All Time

Recipe: It’s a Big Call, but Khanh Nguyen Reckons This Is Possibly His Favourite Soup of All Time

Like its famous cousin pho, canh chua is simmered for hours to produce a rich, satisfying broth. This version of the sweet and sour tamarind soup ups the umami factor with kombu and katsuobushi, and adds layers of crunch and texture with okra, tomatoes, beans and other veggies.

Recipe: O Tama Carey’s Succulent Sri Lankan Chicken Curry Is An Ideal Weekend Cooking Pursuit

Recipe: O Tama Carey’s Succulent Sri Lankan Chicken Curry Is An Ideal Weekend Cooking Pursuit

The Lankan Filling Station chef says this winning dish is “hot and oily, tangy with tomatoes and sweetly spiced with cardamom and cloves”.

Recipe: Justine Schofield Calls This Lush Creamed Corn With Smoked Butter a “Sexy Side” (and We Agree)

Recipe: Justine Schofield Calls This Lush Creamed Corn With Smoked Butter a “Sexy Side” (and We Agree)

You can make this on the stovetop, or pop it in a slow cooker to serve with barbequed anything or just-grilled fish. And you can turn it into a chowder-like soup by simply upping the quantity of stock.

Recipe: Mark Best’s Umami-Packed Easter Roast Lamb With Beetroot and Chicory Salad

Recipe: Mark Best’s Umami-Packed Easter Roast Lamb With Beetroot and Chicory Salad

The former Marque chef and Netflix star says the meat marinade adds a level of complexity to the classic roast, and levels up the salad’s sweet and bitter flavours.

Recipe: Nornie Bero’s Pepperberry Kangaroo Tail Bourguignon

Recipe: Nornie Bero’s Pepperberry Kangaroo Tail Bourguignon

You’ve had fall-apart tender lamb shanks and oxtail. Now meet their local counterpart, ’roo tails – paired here with robust red wine and lively native pepperberries, and simmered for hours and hours.

Recipe: Matt Moran’s Thai Beef Curry, Inspired by Meyne Wyatt’s Fave Childhood Dish

Recipe: Matt Moran’s Thai Beef Curry, Inspired by Meyne Wyatt’s Fave Childhood Dish

Every Sunday the artist and Archibald Packing Room winner went to his nan’s, where she’d cook curry. In his new cooking show, Moran makes a version using a meat cut he says makes all the difference.

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

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

Not 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

Recipe: Hello Auntie’s Pho Dac Biet

This 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

Recipe: Ben Shewry’s At-Home Bolognaise

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

Recipe: Matt Moran’s Chicken Soup

In 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

Recipe: A Tavola’s Pappardelle Con Ragu

Rich 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.

Recipe: Chiswick’s Moran Family Lamb Shoulder

Recipe: Chiswick’s Moran Family Lamb Shoulder

Whether it’s for a Sunday roast, family dinner or a lazy long lunch, this lamb shoulder is the ultimate winter dish.

Recipe: Shane Delia’s Lamb-Shoulder Curry With Green Pea Basmati Rice

Recipe: Shane Delia’s Lamb-Shoulder Curry With Green Pea Basmati Rice

Stick this one to the fridge. In partnership with Australian Lamb we talk to Shane Delia about an easy slow roast lamb recipe perfect for sharing on a lazy Sunday.

Recipe: Tokyo Tina’s Spicy Chicken Ramen

Recipe: Tokyo Tina’s Spicy Chicken Ramen

It’s rich, creamy and spicy. Just don’t overcook your noodles.

Recipe: Sara Oteri’s Sri Lankan-Style Lamb Curry With Basmati Rice

Recipe: Sara Oteri’s Sri Lankan-Style Lamb Curry With Basmati Rice

There’s nothing like a slow Sunday afternoon in winter with a hot pot simmering on the stove. We asked cook, writer and presenter Sara Oteri for one of her favourite lamb recipes.

Recipe: Cumulus Inc’s Whole Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder

Recipe: Cumulus Inc’s Whole Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder

One of the restaurant’s most-ordered dishes.

Recipe: Umberto’s Ragù di Vitello

Recipe: Umberto’s Ragù di Vitello

A recipe for a rich and saucy winter warmer from a neighbourhood favourite.

Recipe: Fukuryu’s Vegetarian Miso Ramen

Recipe: Fukuryu’s Vegetarian Miso Ramen

The popular CBD ramen shop shares its secrets with us.

Recipe: 10 William St’s Pappardelle Bolognaise

Recipe: 10 William St’s Pappardelle Bolognaise

The secret to this bolognaise is all in the long, slow cooking and good quality pancetta.

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