Name: Crock Pot Loaded Red Potatoes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 240 min
Total time: 255 min
Yield: 8 people
Ingredients: 6 slices bacon (cooked and crumbled); 3 pounds red potatoes (cubed); 1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (divided); 1 tablespoon ranch seasoning & salad dressing mix; 2 tablespoons chopped chives

We eat a lot of hamburgers and lunch meat sandwiches in our family and these crockpot loaded red potatoes are the perfect easy potato dish to go with several meals. We love using our slow cooker for easy potato side dishes like this. While we often enjoy this as an easy recipe for casual family meals, it would be great to take to big family meals as well!

Bacon Loaded Potatoes

Sometimes I like to eat potatoes with my bacon and sometimes I just like to eat the bacon! Regardless of your chosen bacon to potato ratio don’t forget the cheese! Our favorite cheese to go on potatoes is cheddar cheese. And I love sharp cheddar. There’s so much more rich, full flavor in sharp cheeses when mixing them in a dish like this. The ranch seasoning mix was a great touch too. We love making a few pounds of bacon at a time to have on hand just for recipes like this!

We also enjoy adding chives or green onions. My mother-in-law gave me this recipe and it calls for chives, but the grocery store was out, so I substituted chives for green onions.

We made these potatoes to take to a summer cookout. They were the perfect easy side dish to bring along because we never know exactly what time we will eat. The kids love playing and swimming, so the crock pot holds these potatoes perfectly on the keep warm setting for a couple hours if needed. We made the full-size batch in our 5-quart slow cooker, but if we had a 6 quart I would’ve added more of each ingredient because the leftovers were great to go with lunches throughout the week!

Here are other tried and true potato recipes that our family loves: Crock Pot Fiesta Scalloped Potatoes, Farmhouse Loaded Baked Potatoes and Easy Creamy Mashed Potatoes. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

Printable Crock Pot Loaded Red Potatoes Recipe