8 Easy Slow Cooker Taco Recipes

Tacos are delicious, easy to throw together, and everybody loves them. Make your taco dinners even easier by cooking the meat in a slow cooker and letting it do all the work. Take a few minutes in the morning (or the night before) to prepare the meat in the crockpot and then you’re done. When it’s time to eat, all you need to do is to heat up the tortillas, put out some taco toppings, and eat!

Here are 8 easy slow cooker taco recipes for busy days! Or lazy ones.

Crockpot Short Rib Tacos with Salted Lime Cabbage and Queso Fresco

Short ribs are often served braised (seared at high heat and then cooked slowly in liquid) to achieve that fall-off-the-meat deliciousness. You can achieve similar results with a slow cooker, as long as you sear them quickly before throwing them into the pot. Then at the end of the day, make your salted lime cabbage and add it to your short rib tacos!

 

Crock-Pot Chicken Tacos

This slow cooker taco recipe includes chicken breasts, canned diced tomatoes, green chiles, onion, cilantro, and seasonings. It makes a classic chicken filling that will make everyone happy.

 

Crock Pot Carnitas Tacos with Chipotle Cream

Put a pork roast in a slow cooker with beer and chipotle peppers in adobo sauce and let it cook all day. Then broil the meat to get it all crispy before stuffing them into tortillas. Don’t skip this part; it’s what turns cooked pork into carnitas!

 

Slow Cooker Korean Tacos

Hoisin sauce is the key ingredient of this slow cooker taco recipe, along with pork, garlic, and ginger. Don’t forget to make the coleslaw mixture to add a crunch to every bite.

 

Crock Pot Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Tacos with Pineapple Slaw

This Hawaiian BBQ chicken taco recipe combines both sweet and savory flavors to make a truly great taco. The chicken is cooked in the slow cooker with BBQ sauce, soy sauce, and pineapple juice and then topped with a pineapple slaw mixture. Yum!

 

Crock Pot Beef Carnitas Tacos

What do you get when you toss a flank steak in a slow cooker? Delicious beef carnitas tacos, of course.

 

Simple Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos

The secret ingredient of this slow cooker pulled pork taco recipe? Chocolate. There’s also beer and orange juice in the recipe. Intrigued? I am, too.

 

Easy Creamy Crockpot Salsa Verde Chicken

It doesn’t get any easier than this. Dump green salsa verde and cream cheese in the slow cooker with your chicken and you’ll get a great chicken taco filling in a couple of hours.

The best thing about these slow cooker taco recipes? You could use any of the above recipes and leave out the tortillas. Put the meat on a bowl of rice, a plate of spinach, a heaping of mashed sweet potatoes, or alongside a vegetable side dish.

 

For more slow cooker recipes, check out Set-It-and-Forget-It Recipe Roundup: Turkey and Chicken Crockpot Meals and Set-It-and-Forget-It Recipe Roundup: Meatless Crockpot Meals.

 

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