Potatoes are probably the best and most versatile ingredient a chef can cook with. Potatoes not only taste great on their own but they can absorb the flavors around them as well. Plus, considering there are so many different types of potatoes, the amount of potato recipes you can create are endless. We have done our best to narrow down the best potato recipes we could find. Use your slow cooker to create amazing and wonderful dishes. From Slow Cooker Ranch Potatoes to a Beef and Potato Casserole, we have it all. Get your water boiling, your vegetable peeler ready and scroll down to discover 17 of the Best Potato Recipes You Have Ever Eaten.

17 of the Best Potato Recipes You Have Ever Eaten

Table Of Contents

• Red Potato Recipes
• Potato Soup Recipes
• Hash Brown Recipes
• Potato Side Dish Recipes
• Meat and Potatoes

Red Potato Recipes

As delicious and awesome as brown potatoes are, we all know that red potatoes are the best. Red potatoes are the basis of some of the best potato recipes ever. Red potatoes are better for boiling, pan frying, grilling scalloping, and steaming than brown potatoes. Plus red potatoes have more fiber and less carbohydrates than brown potatoes. Needless to say, you need to try these red potato recipes using your slow cooker right now! 

1. Slow Cooker Chicken Potato Pie
2. Slow Cooker Ranch Potatoes

Potato Soup Recipes

Potato based soups are the best. You can take your tomato soups and bisque soups while the rest of us will sit back and enjoy a steaming and delicious bowl of potato soup. These hot potato soup recipes are perfect for when the weather gets cold. Sit back and enjoy some of the best potato recipes ever. 

1. Cheddar Potato Soup (shown above)
2. Easy Creamy Cheddar Bacon Soup
3. Penny Wise Potato and Ham Soup
4. Slow Cooker Potato Corn Chowder

Hash Brown Recipes

Hash browns are amazing. It does not matter if you eat them at a greasy diner or Grandma makes them for you on a lovely Sunday morning, hash browns just taste great. However, these hash brown recipes that involve your slow cooker are the best way to enjoy hash browns. These recipes are some of the best potato recipes around. You are guaranteed to go up for seconds after trying these delectable dishes. 

1. Homestyle Cheesy Hashbrown Slow Cooker Casserole
2. Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole with Ham (shown above)
3. Holiday Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole

Potato Side Dish Recipes

A meal would not be complete if it did not have a side dish to complement it. These potato side dish recipes are the perfect complement to any dinner or meal that you cook up. These are some of the best potato recipes you will ever find that you and your family will forget about the main course and will just eat all of the potatoes!

1. Slow Cooker Garlic Baked Potato
2. "Baked" Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes
3. Slow Cooker German Potato Salad
4. Slow Cooker Potatoes Au Gratin (shown above)

Meat and Potatoes

Meat and potatoes are the classic American dish. It's the quintessential comfort food that you would love to come home to every night. Colloquially, "meat and potatoes" refers to the "fundamental parts" or the "basics". However, there is nothing basic about these incredible meat and potato dishes. They are all delicious and you can make them all using you slow cooker.

1. Layered Dinner: Steak, Potatoes, Corn on the Cob (shown above)
2. Lucky Corned Beef with Cabbage with Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
3. Beef and Potato Casserole
4. Cowboy Casserole

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