Well, I must say that when I saw my first Crockpot Pasta recipe, I was quite leery. I had tried pasta in a crockpot many years ago. Obviously, I left it cooking for too long, as I ended up with a mush.
Today though, I have much more experience and can honestly say that there are many recipes for Crockpots that include pasta and when you go into cooking with a crockpot, you do have an understanding that certain foods need to be cooked for certain amounts of time, while others do not need as long.
So sit back, read up and get ready to enjoy your next favorite crockpot meal. Some are savory, some are classics and they are all delicious.
1. Crockpot Olive Garden Chicken Pasta
I have loved Olive Garden Crockpot Chicken and Pasta since the first time I tasted it when they opened.
I needed to replicate this recipe as quickly as I could. Once I did, it has become a weekly meal in my home.
When you use shredded chicken, and I use leftover chicken when I make this dish, combined with pasta and Olive Garden dressing, it is an almost perfect replica of a well loved and tasty dinner.
2. Creamy Crock Pot Butternut Mac and Cheese
This is definitely not your ordinary Mac and Cheese! I have taken this to a whole new level of Comfort food. This is a simply seasoned dish and made with plant based pasta which makes this even healthier.
The squash and onions will cook in the Crockpot and then add in the pasta and cheese and have a complete meal.
This is a perfect meal for those who prefer no meat. At the same time, you can add other ingredients, such as meat if you choose.
3. Crockpot Pasta Fagioli Recipe
This is an Italian-style soup that is perfect for any weeknight meal. It is satisfying, savory and easy to prepare.
Making the soup in the crockpot is simple, and then adding in the cooked pasta at the end of the cooking cycle makes it even easier.
There is a well known version of this soup that is served at Olive Garden, but I truly believe that this take on the recipe is even better.
4. Crock-Pot Mac and Cheese
A classic comfort food that is made with three types of cheeses and in the Crockpot. Most often it is recommended that pasta is cooked on the stove and then added.
What I liked about this recipe is that the pasta is cooked right in the crockpot. This not only saves me time, it came out perfectly cooked.
Adding the evaporated milk to the recipe made it just the right amount of creaminess, without the added sugar.
5. Creamy Crockpot Salmon Pasta with Dill Recipe
This recipe combines so many flavors into one dish.
The Salmon comes out super flaky and tender, the pasta is perfect and the sauce is the creamiest you have ever tasted. Be sure to top the dish with a pinch of Dill which sets it much higher than any other recipe.
This recipe does request that you cook the pasta outside of the crockpot. The creamy portion is thanks to Cream of Artichoke soup mix.
6. Crockpot Spaghetti
With this spaghetti recipe, the pasta is broken in half and cooked in the crockpot. This dish also uses pork rather than beef.
It is flavored with Italian spices and loaded with parmesan cheese. However, the sauce is made first outside of the crockpot and then placed into it after it is combined and simmered for a certain amount of time.
By the time it is ready to eat, the ingredients all combine and meld together.
7. Crock Pot Spaghetti
Another great spaghetti recipe that is made for the most part in the Crockpot. However, this recipe does involve much cooking of ingredients outside of the Crockpot.
However, it does simmer all day long in the crock pot once you have the pork and beef cooked ahead of time. The pasta too, will need to be made on the stove top.
The benefit of this Crockpot Spaghetti is that by simmering all day long, your entire home is going to smell delicious.
8. Slow Cooker Chicken Stroganoff
Chicken and mushrooms in a super creamy stroganoff sauce. Stroganoff is known as one of those classic comfort foods. This does not deny that aspect.
Now, I love stroganoff, and I have never considered using cream of mushroom soup as part of the stroganoff. However, this recipe has proved me wrong. The flavor is astonishing and very pleasing.
You would never know that you used a prepared soup mix as only a part of the sauce. There is still cream cheese and sour cream to make this one of the best stroganoffs I have tasted.
9. Slow Cooker Hamburger Stroganoff
Again, a stroganoff that completely amazed me. This is closer to an authentic stroganoff in my opinion.
The use of the crock pot is meant to make work easier, however, and I have to say, slightly depressing is the fact that there was more cooking outside of the crockpot than I would prefer.
However, it tastes delicious and the lengthy time in my crockpot made the house smell wonderful.
I would not ignore this recipe due to extra cooking, the flavor makes up for the negative.
10. Crockpot Pasta
A classic Italian flavored dish that puts Restaurant food to shame. This is a super easy recipe, even with this recipe there is a small amount of sauteing outside of the crockpot.
However, it is minimal and the dish would not be the same with the flavor of those sauteed vegetables. The ingredients are layered in the crockpot and that enables the ingredients to blend and flavor each other.
It is cheesy, savory and most of all comforting.
11. Mussels and Shrimp, Slow Cooker Pasta
This is a great seafood pasta made in Marinara Sauce and believe me it is savory and flavorful.
The seafood is tender and not tough as many of these recipes become when you order them at a classy restaurant. This is a simply seasoned dish, nothing extravagant, but it would be hard to believe this is not from a Five star restaurant.
As a reminder, the pasta does need to be cooked on the stove just before the sauce is completed.
12. Crock Pot Lo Mein
Loaded with chunks of chicken, edamame, snow peas and carrots and tossed in a soy sauce based sauce, this is the easiest recipe for Lo Mein I have ever tried.
To know that this is also a Crock pot recipe makes me even happier. Asian cuisine is so tasty, it is pretty healthy and tastes so good it is hard to believe how easy this recipe comes together.
Cooking the noodles on the stove is not that much of a hassle and when you place the noodles into the sauce, it is heaven!
13. Instant Pot Better Than Takeout Chicken Lo Mein
Filled with loads of chicken, savory sauce, and vegetables, this is the perfect dish to cook in the Instant pot when you are out of time to make dinner.
It is super quick, super easy and super tasty. The most work you will need to do is to cut the chicken into bite sized pieces.
Throw it all into the instant pot and in just a few short minutes you have Chinese Takeout that is better than the actual takeout.
14. Crock Pot Lazy Lasagna with Ravioli
It can be difficult to think of lasagna in your crockpot. However, this recipe makes that so much easier.
By using cheese ravioli, you can still have your lasagna and eat it too! Simply by using Cheese ravioli, cooked ground beef and sauce of your choice along with oodles of cheese, lasagna will be ready for dinner by the time you are home from work.
Classic spices leave you feeling as though you are dining out at a great restaurant.
15. CrockPot Italian Sausage with Penne Pasta
When you add Italian Sausage, onions, peppers and pasta to your crockpot, you get one of the most delightful meals.
With these cold winter months ahead of us, we all look forward to the warmth of comfort foods. That is what this dish is, pure comfort along with the great Italian taste.
With this dish, the pasta can be added to the Crock pot and cooked for the last 30 minutes. Voila’ dinner is done.
16. Slow Cooker Creamy Lemon Chicken Recipe
Who does not love a lemon chicken dish? This recipe gives you the chance to not cook all day and still have a tasty and perfect dish ready at dinner time.
The chicken comes out super juicy and flavorful. The Sauce is one that cannot be matched by any 5 star restaurant.
This dish will have the family coming back for more. When ready just place this chicken and lemon sauce over a plate of pasta and you are set.
17. Crockpot Sun Dried Tomato Penne Alla Vodka
Vodka Penne is an often overlooked recipe and dish. So many people believe the dish is simply too complicated to successfully make.
This recipe proves just how easy it is to make this wonderful savory dish using your crock pot. You simply need to saute the vegetables in a skillet, add the spices and vodka and then put the mix into your Crockpot.
Boil the penne on your stove top and the dish will be ready to eat in just minutes.
18. Creamy Crockpot Italian Chicken
With just four simple ingredients and your crockpot you will have a meal fit for a king any night of the week. This is what I call a dump and leave meal.
I add the chicken, cream of chicken soup, cream cheese and Italian dressing mix to my crockpot. Stir it together and it will be good to go a few hours later.
You will need to stir a couple of times throughout the cooking process to get the cream cheese incorporated into the soup. I spoon this over some bow tie pasta and the family loves it.
19. Tasty Crock Pot Spaghetti
One of America’s favorite meals and now it is so ebay to make it in the crockpot and ready to serve any night of the week.
What makes this recipe perfect is that the ground beef is made on the stove top and added to the crockpot and sauce, however, the spaghetti pasta is added uncooked and will cook with the sauce.
So simple, so filling and delicious. A true comfort food that does not get any easier to make. Your whole house will smell like an Italian Restaurant.
20. Easy Crockpot Swedish Meatballs
Simple ingredients such as french onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and sour cream give you a much loved classic dish.
The difference is that you can make this in your Crockpot. I have made this using frozen meatballs and it tasted just as good as when I make homemade meatballs.
When you are about ready for dinner, prepare the egg noodles on the stove top and serve up the most delicious dish that everyone will love.
21. Instant Pot Beef Ragu Recipe
What I love about this recipe is that I can cook a chuck roast until it is fork tender, add a few other tasty ingredients and throw it all in the crock pot to simmer and cook all day.
After work, I can cook some pasta according to the package directions and dinner will be ready before the family sits down to the table.
Simple ingredients such as Chuck Roast, tomatoes and Ragu pasta Sauce make this classic comfort food.
22. Classic Beef And Noodles
Almost any type of beef can be used in this recipe, I usually choose a sirloin steak and cut the pieces small.
The steak becomes so moist and tender during the cooking process that it almost seems to melt in your mouth. A super simple homemade sauce with wine gives the dish a deep savory layer of flavor.
Prepare egg noodles right before serving and this is a classic comfort dish. Serve it up with a garden salad and you will be amazed at the compliments received.
23. Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
There is nothing that says love like a pot of classic beef stroganoff.
This recipe is the one that I have found to give the most authentic flavor to a dish and yet be so much easier to make then the original recipe.
A rich and flavorful beef gravy, chunks of tender beef all on top of a bed of egg noodles will have the whole family begging for more.
No need to precook the chunks of beef, they will cook in the crock pot all day long soaking up that delightful flavor of the gravy.
24. Instant Pot Crack Pasta with Ham
This is a delightful take on one of my favorite recipes, Cheesy Chicken Pasta.
Imagine macaroni and cheese with ham added, and basically that’s what this classic recipe is. Ranch seasoning in a cheesy sauce but without the chicken.
When made with cream cheese as well as a good handful of cheddar cheese, this meal comes out a winner.
You can use any form or shape of pasta you prefer, making this dish even better.
25. Cajun Shrimp Pasta
Creamy, spicy and loaded with tender shrimp. A meal that is ready in a short time and ready for any night of the week.
This recipe does involve the majority of cooking on the stove top, however, I love to let this simmer a few hours in the Crockpot to let the shrimp soak up the flavor of the Cajun spice.
It really is a simple dish, make the linguine right before you are ready to serve for a quick and filling meal.