My head's splitting, can't concentrate on where to look...

dazza-mac

Can anyone please tell me where I'll find soup recipes for the slow cooker?

I'm a useless cook and want to start using my slow cooker. I've tried typing in the 'forum search' for soup recipes, but nothing came up.

Pink.

This thread should help:

Soup recipes

I'll add your post to that one later.

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BitterAndTwisted

You don't really need any specific recipes. You just need the Holy Trinity of Veg sweated off in some oil/butter. These are onion celery and finely chopped carrots. Use one or all, whatever suits. Transfer to the slow-cooker, add some stock/tinned chpped tomatoes/passata and any other ingredients you have to hand: beans and pulses, lentils, any veg that needs to be used up, whatever meat-scraps or bits and pieces that are hanging around looking for a home. Turn on the slow-cooker and come back six hours later. That's it.

meg72

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

You don't really need any specific recipes. You just need the Holy Trinity of Veg sweated off in some oil/butter. These are onion celery and finely chopped carrots. Use one or all, whatever suits. Transfer to the slow-cooker, add some stock/tinned chpped tomatoes/passata and any other ingredients you have to hand: beans and pulses, lentils, any veg that needs to be used up, whatever meat-scraps or bits and pieces that are hanging around looking for a home. Turn on the slow-cooker and come back six hours later. That's it.

You will never find any better advice on making soup than this, just throw it all in and you have soup.

aliama

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

You don't really need any specific recipes. You just need the Holy Trinity of Veg sweated off in some oil/butter. These are onion celery and finely chopped carrots. Use one or all, whatever suits. Transfer to the slow-cooker, add some stock/tinned chpped tomatoes/passata and any other ingredients you have to hand: beans and pulses, lentils, any veg that needs to be used up, whatever meat-scraps or bits and pieces that are hanging around looking for a home. Turn on the slow-cooker and come back six hours later. That's it.

While I suppose there's something to be said for not having to cook at all when you get home, (and it depends on the ingredients as well) it may be easier just to cook on the hob rather than in the slow cooker rather than faffing about transferring sweated vegetables to the slow cooker. Less to wash up as well. Lentils in particular are quick to cook.

Otherwise, I agree with this post.

I'll also add that a soup is really just a slightly more watery stew, so you could easily adapt a tasty looking stew recipe by adding a bit more liquid (stock or water) and/or leaving out a few ingredients.

To be honest, most of my soups end up so packed with ingredients it's probably more accurate to call them stews.

OP, are there any particular types of soup recipe that you're looking for?

poppyjane

Personally, I don't bother with any of that sweating nonsense. Rather undoes the benefits of a slow cooker if you ask me! And I also ignore celery, as it's evil - right up there with olives! In short, just chuck anything in, and yummy things will come out!

Jane