Beat the heat and keep your kitchen cool this season by putting your slow cooker to work. The same machine that you used all winter-long for stews and chili is also a great tool for easy make-ahead summer meals that can feed a crowd. To simplify your life even more, consider using a slow cooker liner for easy clean up. Here are six delicious slow cooker recipes to try this summer.
Above: Slow-Cooked Pulled Pork Sandwiches "The payoff is meltingly tender pork in a sweet sauce. To round out the meal Southern-style
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Slow-Cooked Ratatouille "Parmigiano-Reggiano adds salty, nutty richness to this ratatouille, which rivals the best oven versions. To speed preparation, feel free to skip the first step of salting and rinsing the eggplant and zucchini (this process draws off any bitter juices). Instead, just remove any particularly seedy and brown parts of the eggplant, or use smaller Japanese eggplants (which also do not need to be peeled)."
Pulled Chicken with Cherry-Chile Barbecue Sauce "This fresh seasonal sauce -- so good you'll be glad to have leftovers --features less sugar than traditional barbecue sauces. Serve the moist, flavorful chicken on warmed burger buns
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Slow-Cooked Carnitas Tacos Let guests customize their pork tacos by laying out avocado slices, cilantro sprigs, sliced red bell peppers, and tomatillo salsa.
Homemade Yogurt Top with your favorite summer berries for a light and lovely summer breakfast.
Fudgy Brownie Cake The perfect crowd-pleasing dessert for summer entertaining couldn't be easier to make thanks to your slow cooker.
What are you making in your slow cooker this summer? Tell us in the comments
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