The base of every great soup is a good meat or vegetable stock. Also use the best ingredients you can for your soups, and if you can make your own stock with fresh ingredients.
Cooking soups in the crock pot brings out the flavors of the ingredients you are using. With the slow cooking the crock pot makes soup making easy as well as there are usually only one or two steps to making a great soup.
Vegetarian soups are becoming some of my favorite crock pot recipes lately with split peas, pumpkin or potato to thicken them. I find these soups also improve in flavor the next day. A vegetable soup make in the crock pot is also healthy and usually low fat.
Seasoning soups is easy with ingredients such as bay leaves, cinnamon, ginger, pepper and the addition of herbs like parsley, thyme, mint and other seasonal fresh herbs. Thicken your soup with potato, arrowroot or cornflour or take some soup out and blend, then add back for a natural thickening. I tend to the latter a lot with vegetable soups.
To reduce fat even more from your crock pot soups allow to cool and skim off any fat from the top. When heating soups only heat what you need and not the whole pot, and freeze in individual or family size servings if possible. When you freeze your soups this way they are ready in the future for use instead of a fast food meal when you are busy or when you need an entree to add to a meal.
Served with crusty bread, a bowl of steaming soup is the perfect meal and making your soup in the crock pot makes the process easy for you as well.
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Couldn’t agree more – best way to pull out the flavor of soup is in a crockpot! I have a pretty decent lentil soup recipe over on my blog if you’d like. I made it in a crockpot, and I was happy with the results.
I’m on the lookout for an exceptional minestrone.
I just commented to Cinnamon Girl that I love crock pot stuff and mentioned that even so I don’t use mine often enough. Then I realized that it’s b/c I don’t have enough recipes. That’s when I happened to notice your card in my dropbox. Coincidence?
It was meant to be
Valerie so check out the recipes I have on the site and I hope you like them. I am also working on an ebook which will have more….available by the end of the year.
Ill go and have a look Lori as I do love soups.
The recipes here are great. Thanks for having them. I am going to try out one of your recipes this week (after a trip to the grocery store to get the right ingredients). Cooking is a favorite hobby of mine. I love trying out new recipes and your site has given me a lot of ideas. Where do you get the inspiration for them? Thanks again – great site!