11 Slow-Cooker Soup and Stew Recipes to Warm Your Body and Soul

Whether you're a vegetarian or a meat-lover, everyone will love this plant-based, Italian-inspired stew. It's packed with vegetables like Lacinato kale, zucchini, and tomatoes, plus rich cranberry beans that help to create a silky broth.

This may be the most satisfying dish you'll eat all week—okay, all winter long. It's meaty, fatty, spicy—a totally welcome take on flank steak. Serve over rice and with plantain chips so that no drop goes to waste.

Aromatic orange zest, rosemary, and rich green olives are the key, Sicilian-inspired ingredients in this rich stew. Before adding cubed beef chuck to the slow-cooker, brown it in a sizzling hot cast-iron pan to seal in the juices and create gorgeous color.

We're declaring this the best ever vegetable stew. It's packed with protein, thanks to Great Northern beans, and plenty of color from leeks, butternut squash, and spinach. To put it simply, it's a home run.

A fabulous curry is nothing without a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Nearly a dozen spices and herbs are puréed together to form a paste, which is added to coconut milk to create a thick and flavorful sauce. Flaky white fish is added near the very end so it cooks through but doesn't become overcooked.

While this Mexican-style green chili would have you dirty a few pots and pans, the effort pays off in a two-for-one meal plan: stew one night and tacos the next.

Chop a few chiles, open a few cans, and you're looking at a hearty, flavorful dinner.

This back-pocket winter meal is a godsend on busy, chilly days—it requires just five minutes of prep.

This lighter beef stew calls for extra-lean beef chuck; with so much time to mingle, the flavors develop a heartiness and you don't even miss the fat.

Strategically adding ingredients to this Cajun stew ensures that every element is perfectly cooked.