This slow cooker cheesy beef and potatoes is one of a kind! It has so many delicious spices to build the perfect flavor profile that you will be dreaming of.
With this slow cooker beef and potatoes au gratin recipe you can enjoy a tasty dinner but still keep it a budget-friendly recipe. No need to go over the top on fancy ingredients when you can make the best ground beef recipe in the slow cooker.
What is nice is that you can build this in the slow cooker and set it and forget it until later! Talk about an easy recipe to make on those busy days or ones where you might just want a break from cooking in the kitchen.
Most people tend to make chicken in the slow cooker, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great and easy ground beef slow cooker recipes! You need to try out our slow cooker ground beef hobo dinner recipe, slow cooker mexican hamburger hashbrown casserole recipe, slow cooker tamale pie recipe, and our slow cooker beef enchilada stack recipe. You can’t go wrong with any of them!
Ingredients You Need to Make Our Slow cooker Cheesy Beef and Potatoes Recipe:
- Lean ground beef
- Diced onion
- Russet potatoes
- Smoked paprika
- Dried parsley
- Garlic powder
- Salt
- Pepper
- Shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- Beef broth
How To Make Our Slow cooker Cheesy Beef and Potatoes Recipe:
When you are ready to make dinner, get out your skillet and the heat on medium heat.
After the pan is hot, add the ground beef to the pan along with a pinch of salt and pepper if you desire!
Once the beef is completely browned, drain the grease from the pan and then set it aside.
Now, in a small bow mix together the smoked paprika, parsley, garlic powder, salt, and pepper and then set the bowl aside.
Then, spray the inside of the slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray to make cleaning up after dinner easier!
Next, slice up your russet potatoes into about ¼ inch slices and then spread out half of the potato slices into the bottom of the slow cooker.
Once that is done, sprinkle on half of the spices over top of the sliced potatoes, along with half the cooked ground beef, and half of the cheese.
After the cheese, repeat the potato, seasoning, beef, and cheese layers one more time.
When all of the layers have been placed into the slow cooker, pour the beef broth over top and then place the lid on the slow cooker and turn it on high for 4 hours or on low for 6-8 hours.
Do your best not to open the lid as that will release heat from the slow cooker. If you do end up removing the lid, add on another 30 minutes to make sure the potatoes get cooked long enough.
When the potatoes are tender, serve up dinner, topping it with fresh parsley and shredded cheese and enjoy!
To Make Slow Cooker Beef and Potatoes You Will Need:
- Skillet
- Colander
- Small mixing bowl
- Nonstick cooking spray
- Slow cooker (THIS is a great one!)
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Can You Put Raw Ground Beef in a Slow Cooker?
You can, but you will want to break it into little pieces first and then make sure that it’s fully cooked before consuming food. I have found that I prefer to cook it before adding it to the slow cooker because then I can drain the grease off of the meat.
Baking Kneads goes even more in-depth on how to use raw meat in a slow cooker if you want to give it a shot!
What Meat is Best with Scalloped Potatoes?
This recipe uses ground beef, but you could also substitute cooked ham in it’s place. Here is our favorite Slow Cooker Ham and Potatoes recipe.
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Slow Cooker Cheesy Beef and Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 pound Russet potatoes, scrubbed and sliced into 1/4" coins (you can peel them if you want, but it's not necessary)
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika, (if you don't have smoked, you can use regular paprika)
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper, to taste, (I did about 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper)
- 3 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- ½ cup beef broth
Instructions
- In a skillet on the stove top, brown ground beef and onion over medium heat (add seasoning as desired to the meat – I usually just do some salt and pepper). Drain the grease from the pan, set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix together smoked paprika, parsley, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Spray the inside of the slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray for easier clean up.
- Spread half of the potatoes in the bottom of the slow cooker. Top with half of the seasonings, then half of the ground beef mixture, then half of the cheese. Repeat layers in the same order again.
- Pour the broth on top of everything.
- Place the lid on top and cook for 4 hours on high (or 6-8 hours on low), making sure to not open the lid (every time you open a slow cooker lid, it releases enough heat that you need to add on about an extra 30 minutes of cooking time).
- Serve topped with fresh parsley and more shredded cheese, if desired.
Notes
- You can put raw beef in the slow cooker, but you will want to break it into little pieces first and then make sure that it’s fully cooked before consuming food. I have found that I prefer to cook it before adding it to the slow cooker because then I can drain the grease off of the meat.
Nutrition
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It was good however it was cooked at 5 hours on low, in fact it was starting to burn
Can it be done in the instant pot?
We have not yet tried this recipe in the Instant Pot.
Kind of bland.
When do you add the onions? Cooked with the ground beef or layered in raw? I’m layering them in, though I think cooked with ground beef may be better (but wasn’t listed, so I didn’t think about it until now).
In step one we mention to brown the ground beef and onion over medium heat so we recommend doing it that way. But it will taste yummy either way
Just an ok recipe, not enough meat or seasoning, so kind of bland. But my husband and I have discussed plans to tweak it before making any other decisions.
My family loved this recipe and it was perfect for a busy night.