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Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes Recipe

Side dish for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. You have to try this simple Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes Recipe. It’s the best!

Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes

This is one of our most popular recipes and it is full of flavor. Such a great side dish you have to give these Crockpot Bacon & Cheese potatoes a try! They are delicious as a side dish for dinner or part of a brunch.

How to Make Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes

Potatoes in foil in crockpot

A love easy crockpot recipes like this! Just layer the potatoes, bacon, and cheese along with some green onions right in a foil-lined slow cooker. Cover by folding over the foil or place another piece of foil. Cook on high for about 5 hours or low for 8 – 10 hours.

Cooked potatoes in crockpot with bacon & cheese

Is the foil necessary?

The foil prevents the bottom of the potatoes from getting burned and also makes clean up a breeze. You could substitute parchment paper if you don’t’ have or want to use foil.

What size crockpot?

This dish is best prepared in a 4 qt or larger crockpot. You can double this recipe easily, but you will want to use at least a 6-quart crockpot if you do.

Serving

This dish is so versatile! It is great as a filling side dish with dinner. Awesome with a brunch, and even better served as a fun appetizer style dish. The thing is, this is just delicious!

Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes

Grab your slowcooker and get ready for the best side dish recipe for breakfast, lunch or dinner! Crockpot Bacon & Cheese Potatoes Recipe
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Prep Time:10 minutes
Cook Time:10 hours
Total Time:10 hours 10 minutes

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 1/4 pound bacon diced
  • 2 onions thinly sliced
  • 4 potatoes thinly sliced
  • 1/2 pound cheddar cheese thinly sliced
  • salt and pepper
  • butter
  • Green Onions optional

Instructions

  • Line crockpot with foil, leaving enough to cover the potatoes when finished.
  • Layer half each of the bacon, onions, potatoes and cheese in crockpot. Season to taste and dot with butter.
  • Repeat layers of bacon, onions, potatoes and cheese. Dot with butter.
  • Cover with remaining foil.
  • Cover and cook on low for 10-12 hours.

Notes

Make this recipe bigger if you are expecting company. Great to serve for a brunch!

Nutrition

Calories: 533kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Sodium: 555mg | Potassium: 1089mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 568IU | Vitamin C: 46mg | Calcium: 447mg | Iron: 2mg
Servings: 4
Calories: 533kcal
Author: Amanda

Originally Published in 2012. Updated April 2020.

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36 Comments

    1. 3 stars
      Yes I cooked last night for our Easter dinner and I have some burned onions and burned cheese. Definetly could cook it for less time.

  1. Can you cook on high for a shorter time? Or will they burn?
    I would love to make for dinner, but only have about 6 hours

  2. Whenever I make bacon for recipes, I like to make it in the oven to make it crispy since it will soften somewhat while its added to the dish.

  3. How about using the Reynolds’ crock pot liners? I love those things – and you can just rinse them out and put them in the plastic recycle bin afterward! 🙂

  4. 5 stars
    I too, wanted to try these, but didn’t have the time to wait for the time in the crock pot. So I followed this recipe, except for I did it in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour in a 9 x 13 baking dish covered tightly by aluminum foil. They came out AMAZING!! Thanks for the recipe.

  5. 3 stars
    Has anyone had any experience in making the mixture and then freezing it before cooking? I am trying to start freezer cooking and this looks as though it would be something I would make often but don’t have the time to prepare each time we want to eat it.

  6. Has anybody made them on high? Also, do you add the green onion in with the other onion or wait until the very end to add them?

  7. 4 stars
    I didn’t cook the bacon & thought it was awesome. Love not having deal with the bacon cooking mess. I used a combination of Red & Yukon Gold potatoes that equalled a total of 2 lbs., 1 cup of shredded Cheddar cheese, only green onions, no salt or butter (thought bacon added enough salt). I added a little sour cream to some of mine to make it like a loaded potato but hubby felt like they didn’t need anything. We had this as a meal for two & still had a few leftovers. Will be making this again for sure.

  8. 4 stars
    Sorry forget to mention above that I used the oven recommendation for 1 hr @ 400 degrees and it worked perfectly.

  9. 5 stars
    Can you make in the oven?? Dont have a crockpot and would really like to try this before the cooking inspiration leaves me!

  10. I just started this is one crockpot and the Sour Cream and Bacon in another. I can’t wait to see how they turn out!

    1. Everything turned out wonderful! I will definitely be making them both again. The chicken was tender and the potatoes were delicious. Great dinner!

  11. Thanks so much for the tip of using foil when cooking potatoes in the crockpot! This recipe sounds wonderful. Great weeknight dinner idea and economical too!

  12. 5 stars
    These were AMAZING. I have made them both ways and like both for different reasons! In the oven they get much crispier, but in the crockpot, it was almost liked mashed potatoes. Both were equally DELICIOUS! The ONLY changes I made were instead of using 2 medium onions, I just used ten spring/green onions chopped and I used red potatoes (mainly because what I had on hand!)

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