Whether you’ve been on a keto diet for years or just getting started, one thing that is super helpful is having keto crockpot recipes that help make dinner time much easier.
You may be following a keto diet for weight loss, or eating the keto way might be your preferred lifestyle. In recent years, we’ve developed a deeper understanding of what sugar does to the body in terms of disease and inflammation. Even if you’re not eating keto, using keto recipes can help you feel better.
When you’re following a keto way of eating, you’re eating fewer carbs and very little sugar.
Best of all, you get to enjoy plenty of good fats, high-protein foods, and meat.
Embarking on a ketogenic diet can be exciting, but it’s important to maintain variety in your meals. One of the best ways to do this, while ensuring your dietary needs are met, is by incorporating keto-friendly crockpot recipes into your meal plans. Crockpots offer a convenient solution for busy individuals and can deliver mouthwatering, low-carb meals with minimal effort.
The simplicity of these slow-cooked meals is perfect for those days when you want a satisfying, healthy meal without a lot of hands-on time. Keto crockpot recipes are also great for meal prepping, ensuring you have a delicious and satisfying low-carb meal at the ready.
Besides being healthy, keto crockpot recipes can save you tons of time, too.
Being able to put some ingredients into a crockpot takes a lot less time than standing over a hot stove.
Everyone loves a delicious spaghetti and meatball dinner, and while keto eaters usually skip the pasta, there’s no reason you can’t enjoy some juicy meatballs.
These meatballs are great served by themselves with a salad. Alternatively, you can enjoy these Parmesan meatballs with some zucchini noodles (zoodles).
The recipe calls for Italian sausage and marinara sauce. You can make your own sauce or use a high-quality jarred marinara like Classico Riserva, which is low in sugar.
For veggies, you can use both red bell pepper and green bell pepper to make your keto meal even more appealing.
Seasonings for this dish are Italian seasoning, garlic salt (or garlic powder), salt, and black pepper.
Shredded mozzarella cheese finishes this keto crockpot dish off beautifully. This dish makes a great freezer meal that you can pull out on busy weeknights.
If you’ve been doing keto for a while, one of the things you likely miss is the humble potato.
Although full of carbs, the versatility of the potato has a lot of appeal. Fortunately, cauliflower can jump in to fill the void with some great keto slow cooker recipes.
This cauliflower soup is reminiscent of a big old bowl of baked potato soup.
The soup comes complete with all of the fixings you would put on top of a bowl of potato soup, including bacon, green onions, and shredded cheddar cheese.
This chicken cacciatore is elegant enough to serve to company but easy enough for a healthy dinner on a busy weeknight. If you’re looking for great keto crockpot ideas, this is a great one.
In the slow cooker, your juicy chicken thighs simmer in a thick and rich tomato sauce.
The chicken becomes even moister and soaks up all of the delicious flavor and seasoning.
Also, there is no better way to cook this cut of meat than in the crockpot.
When you cook a pot roast for your keto diet, you will probably skip the root veggies that normally come with this dish.
However, you can always serve this delicious roast atop some mashed cauliflower. The gravy with this roast is absolutely wonderful.
For seasoning, this roast uses black pepper, garlic, onion, and parsley. You can use beef broth or bone broth to make an even tastier sauce. This dish is equally delicious cooked in the Instant Pot.
Who doesn’t love queso dip? Even in Congress, there are contests as to who can make the best queso.
The best queso crockpot recipe is rich and creamy, and getting that with a keto queso recipe is easy as pie (without all of the sugar that’s in a pie!).
This queso recipe uses three types of cheese: shredded cheddar cheese, shredded Monterey jack cheese, and cream cheese.
Adding heavy cream to this recipe gives it even more creaminess.
For flavor, this queso brings it home with jalapeno pepper, butter, onion, and cumin.
If you want to really get the party going, stir some ground beef into your queso.
The best way to cook pork loin is to slowly cook it in a crock pot.
Slow cooking a pork loin brings out all of the juiciness and wonderful flavor of the pork, and this slow cooker recipe is perfect for that.
For this recipe, the secret is in the sauce that you make after the pork loin is finished cooking. The garlic herb sauce is made in a skillet with the cooking juices from your pork loin.
The only seasoning in this delicious meat dish is dried parsley and black pepper. The five garlic cloves do the rest.
Chicken fajitas are one of the most popular Tex-Mex foods, and fortunately, fajitas are naturally low carb.
To make these low carb chicken fajitas, you’re going to be able to use some frozen, canned, and pre-mixed seasonings, so this is one of the easy keto crockpot recipes.
Besides chicken breast, you will need frozen fajita vegetables. If you don’t have those, you can cut up some onion and bell bell peppers.
For seasoning your chicken fajitas, you can use a packet of fajita seasoning mix or taco seasoning mix.
Canned tomatoes add tons of flavor, or you can use a jar of low carb salsa.
Chili is a family favorite, and white chicken chili is right behind traditional tomato-based chili in flavor and wholesomeness.
This white chicken chili recipe is a low carb recipe with loads of flavor. If you want a lighter dinner, this chili is the perfect dish to make.
The flavoring for this white chicken chili comes from the chopped green chiles, bell pepper, ground cumin, adobo seasoning, sriracha seasoning, and cayenne pepper.
Tex-Mex and Mexican food are beloved by almost everyone, and there are plenty of great taco casserole recipes out there, including keto crockpot meals.
The veggies in this casserole are bell pepper and cauliflower. This casserole’s creaminess comes from cream cheese that’s mixed with a low carb marinara sauce.
The spices are what make this casserole so special, and they include paprika, cumin, chili powder, onion powder, and garlic powder.
Yellow squash and zucchini both have so much wonderful flavor.
One of the highlights of summertime is having an abundance of these two wonderful veggies. And in the summer, the prices for them are so low.
Why not make a delightful squash casserole?
The casserole itself is quite simple. Seasonings for this dish include black pepper, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, and sea salt.
A little bit of Asiago or Parmesan cheese gives this casserole tons of flavor.
However, feel free to layer this in the crock pot with a lot of shredded cheddar cheese or Mozzarella cheese on top so that you’ve got an au gratin dish that will make your family swoon.
If you love buffalo chicken wings, you’re going to adore crockpot buffalo chicken dip.
Our favorite way to eat this yummy and spicy dip is with the veggies we’re accustomed to seeing with buffalo wings. Think celery sticks, carrots, and even cauliflower.
This chicken recipe calls for a specific seasoning mix, but there’s no reason you can’t use your own spices.
What makes one of the creamiest keto crock pot meals is the cream cheese and Greek yogurt. If you don’t have Greek yogurt, you can use sour cream instead.
If you’ve not yet tried mashed cauliflower, you’re going to be astonished at how delicious it is.
This recipe has only five ingredients and takes just 10 minutes of prep work.
The best part about this recipe is that it’s both keto-friendly and ideal for paleo diets. For paleo diets, you will need to go easy on dairy products.
This recipe calls for a whopping six cloves of garlic, so you know it delivers all of the good flavor.
You can cook your cauliflower in vegetable broth, beef broth, or chicken broth for more flavor. We love this keto crock pot recipe.
Cassie brings decades of experience to the Kitchen Community. She is a noted chef and avid gardener. Her new book "Healthy Eating Through the Garden" will be released shortly. When not writing or speaking about food and gardens Cassie can be found puttering around farmer's markets and greenhouses looking for the next great idea.
