Free up some oven space this holiday season with 45 Christmas Side Dish Crock Pot Recipes to complete your Christmas dinner.
Main dishes are often the main event of the Christmas holidays (who doesn’t love that delicious turkey?)
But any big holiday meal is made better with the perfect side dish.
Whether you go for a classic green bean casserole or some yummy sweet potatoes, Christmas side dishes complete your holiday table. And that’s a good thing!
The best thing about crockpot side dishes is, you can make your favorite Christmas recipes while keeping your oven free to make that Christmas ham! We love that.
These delicious sides use simple ingredients and are easy to whip together with minimal minutes of prep time.
We want to help simplify your Christmas menus while still satisfying all of your holiday guests. Christmas crockpot recipes to the rescue! The slow cooker is the easiest way to make so many different things.
Using slow cooker recipes is also one of our favorite ways to bring a simple side dish to someone else’s home when YOU are the dinner guest! You can bring everything from homemade cranberry sauce to mashed potatoes to your host’s dinner table in a slow cooker this Christmas season.
Are you ready make the easiest and best holiday dinner ever? We know your entire family is going to love these.
Before we get to our Christmas side dishes, here are a few of our top Christmas main dishes you can also make in the crock pot:
Slow Cooker Honey Balsamic Pork Roast
Easy Slow Cooker Turkey Breast
Slow Cooker Roast Beef and Gravy
Let’s get to some slow cooker side dish recipes!
Which of these crockpot side dish recipes are you most excited to try out first?
Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe (with Marshmallows)
Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes are so simple and delicious. Throw them in the crock pot in the morning and let them slowly cook all day long while you prepare your other dishes.
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Slow Cooker Stuffing Recipe
While your oven will be quite busy during this holiday season, take advantage of your crock pot with this amazingly flavorful and moist slow cooker stuffing.
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Slow Cooker Parmesan Ranch Potatoes Recipe
Throw these potatoes in your slow cooker and you will have the perfect side dish for any dinner!
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Slow Cooker Glazed Carrots Recipe
I have two slow cookers just for meals like this. I love having a side dish and main dish all ready to go in the evening just by doing a little preparation in the morning. These carrots are so good, even my picky kids ate them!
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Slow Cooker Bacon Cheese Potatoes Recipe
This is the best crock pot recipe you will find! These slow cooker bacon cheese potatoes have everything we love in every bite.
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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash is so simple and tastes absolutely amazing. It only requires a few simple ingredients and is the perfect fall side dish.
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Slow Cooker Cheesy Potatoes Recipe
Our favorite potato side dish just got easier- now you can make it in the slow cooker!
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Slow Cooker Baked Beans with Bacon Recipe
Only 6 ingredients needed to make these simple Slow Cooker Baked Beans with Bacon.
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Slow Cooker Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These potatoes can bake away while you prepare the rest of the dinner. They only take a few minutes to assemble and taste amazing.
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Slow Cooker Roasted Vegetables Recipe
These Slow Cooker Roasted Vegetables are made with red potatoes, carrots, zucchini and onion tossed in olive oil and seasoned to perfection.
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Slow Cooker Cheesy Cauliflower Recipe
Cauliflower with cheese is the perfect combo. This is the perfect veggie side dish for your dinner that is smothered in a cheesy sauce.
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Slow Cooker Creamed Corn Recipe
You'll never go back to canned creamed corn after you try this Slow Cooker Creamed Corn. Throw this simple creamed corn recipe together in a matter of minutes.
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Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes are so simple to make and have the best flavor. If you need a Thanksgiving side dish, this is one we highly recommend.
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Slow Cooker Green Beans Recipe
The perfect way to cook fresh green beans is in the slow cooker! Full of flavor and so delicious – while your crock pot does all the work.
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Slow Cooker Creamy Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
This Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese is creamy, comforting, and the first dish gone at any get-together. Only take a few minutes to prep!
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Crockpot Green Bean Casserole Recipe
Enjoy this fun twist on the classic Green Bean Casserole Recipe! Free up the oven this Holiday with the Crock pot Green Bean Casserole Recipe!
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Crock Pot Corn Bread
Crock Pot Corn Bread is a delicious, moist and easy corn bread recipe. Making corn bread in the slow cooker makes the best corn bread ever!
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Easy & Delicious Crock Pot Ranch Potatoes – Half-Scratched
Crock pot ranch potatoes will be your new favorite recipe! Throw potatoes, dressing, cheese and seasonings in a crock pot for a creamy, savory side dish!
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Crock Pot Corn on the Cob
Crock Pot Corn on the Cob is the perfect summer side dish. It takes the deliciousness of corn and makes preparation basically effortless!
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Crock Pot Scalloped Potatoes
Creamy crock pot scalloped potatoes are a great side to any meal. You only need a few ingredients and the slow cooker!
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Slow Cooker Creamed Corn – Damn Delicious
Slow Cooker Creamed Corn – So rich and creamy, and unbelievably easy to make with just 5 ingredients. It does not get easier than that!
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Slow Cooker Boston Baked Beans
This Slow Cooker Boston Baked Beans recipe is everything baked beans should be: thick, saucy, savory with a touch of sweet. Come see how I made the classic Boston Baked Beans recipe easier by making it in the slow cooker!
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Slow-Cooker Mashed Potatoes
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Best Crockpot Stuffing Recipe
Crockpot stuffing is so simple to make and will be everyone’s favorite side dish during the holidays. The slow cooker does all of the work!
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Slow Cooker Green Beans with Bacon
Slow Cooker Green Beans with Bacon is one of our very favorite side dishes! Just a handful of ingredients and a few minutes of work for this amazing recipe!
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Crock Pot Creamed Spinach
Are you looking for yummy ways to eat your veggies or ways to get your kids to eat their veggies? I have you covered! This Crock Pot Creamed Spinach is so good, everyone will want to eat their spinach! Aunt Lou here. I have mentioned before that the texture of food greatly affects my eating.
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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Wedges
Tender and sweet sweet potato wedges are a comforting side dish and easily made in your slow cooker.
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How to Make Perfect Rice in the Slow Cooker
Let your crockpot or slow cooker do the work for you! This gluten free and paleo (if you use white rice) side dish is a weeknight lifesaver. Includes instructions for cooking brown rice and wild rice too.
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Slow Cooker Glazed Carrots
These slow cooker glazed carrots are perfect for a casual dinner or a holiday gathering! The whole family will love these brown sugar glazed carrots.
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Slow Cooker Red Cabbage
Red cabbage is best cooked low and slow, and you just put this Slow Cooker Red Cabbage on low for 5 hours, and it’s done. Perfect for Christmas Day.
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Slow-Cooker German Potato Salad
Here’s the dish everyone looks for at our parties, so we always double the recipe. It was handed down from my mother-in-law and has been a family favorite for years. —Stacy Novak, Stafford, Virginia
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Crock Pot Mac and Cheese
Crock Pot Mac and Cheese – An easy, super cheesy macaroni and cheese recipe made right in the slow cooker. Perfect for holidays and feeding a crowd!
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Crockpot Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Crock pot sweet potato casserole is a tasty blend of diced sweet potatoes coated in brown sugar. It’s topped with pecans and marshmallows.
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Slow Cooker Balsamic Brussels Sprouts – Chef Savvy
Super Easy Slow Cooker Balsamic Brussels Sprouts. All you need is 10 minutes of prep time to make this! It’s the perfect healthy side dish!
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Copycat Cracker Barrel Fried Apples ( Slow Cooker or Instant Pot!)
Copycat Cracker Barrel Fried Apples ( Slow Cooker or Instant Pot!). This is my favourite side dish at Cracker Barrel and now you can make it at home!
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Crockpot Sweet Potato Casserole
Crockpot Sweet Potato Casserole is an easy dish that takes minimal prep work! It’s the perfect balance of sweet & savory and creamy & crunchy (with pecans)!
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Slow Cooker Lipton Onion Potatoes
Slow Cooker Lipton Onion Soup Mix Potatoes are a perfect side dish! – The Magical Slow Cooker
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CROCK POT GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE
Whether for a holiday feast or comfort food on a weeknight, this Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole is sure to be a hit! (And it frees up your oven!)
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Slow Cooker Cheesy Broccoli Casserole
Short on prep time and big on taste, this cheesy broccoli casserole recipe features McCormick Original Country Gravy for rich, hearty flavor. Serve this twist on traditional broccoli casserole as a side dish to your favorite holiday entree.
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SLOW COOKER CRANBERRY SAUCE
I mean, let’s be real, cranberry sauce could hardly get any easier on the stove. But if you happen to love slow cookers as much as I do and want a stove-free Thanksgiving (or if you at least want to free up some extra space on that stove), you’ve gotta try this one.
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Slow-Cooker Garlic-Herb Mashed Cauliflower
Cauliflower is the ideal low-carb, low-cal substitute for potatoes, which is why we use it in everything from cheesy gratins to "tater" tots. So when we discovered this slow-cooker garlic-herb mashed cauliflower, it quickly became our favorite side dish.
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5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Creamed Corn
This classic Thanksgiving side is now even easier to make thanks to a little help from your slow cooker or Crock Pot. You only need 5 ingredients and very little prep, and it’s made extra creamy and delicious with the addition of cream cheese.
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Easy Crockpot Rice
Crock pot rice is a time saver. You set it and forget it for an easy side dish.
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SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE STUFFING
This sausage stuffing is super easy to make since the slow cooker does all the hard work for you! There’s no sauteing or browning required at all and you can FREE UP YOUR OVEN!!
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