Advice to the hostess: how to cook soup in a slow cooker

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

When it comes to cooking the first course, the peculiarities of observing the cooking technology are more relevant than ever. Yes, we are used to cooking food using traditional heat treatment - standing at the stove. But with the advent of pleasant technical problems, certain dilemmas arise in our lives.

On the one hand, as manufacturers of the same multicookers, juicers and combines promise us, life becomes much easier with such and such assistants! But on the other hand…

How to cook soup in a slow cooker, even young mothers cannot figure it out, what can we say about a grandmother, for whom such a gift can turn out to be a “devilish thing”? Actually, there is nothing complicated: pour the ingredients and turn on the mode. It remains to figure out the sequence and small nuances of how to cook soup in a slow cooker.

What are we cooking with?

In general, the first course implies a careful selection of ingredients, and most importantly, their quality control. It only seems from the outside that boiled water kills all bacteria. Make sure food is well cleaned, washed and cut into adequate portions.

Before you cook soup in a slow cooker, read the instructions attached to it:most likely, there will definitely be a set of recipes, cooking times and other useful tips.

Here are a few ideas on how to make the dish tastier, he althier and easier to prepare:

• Do not add water during the cooking process. If you think the liquid level is low, adjust it immediately (taking into account the boil-off process).
• Don't boil more than you can eat in two days. The volumes of multicookers do not allow you to cook a whole vat for all honest people, but you must admit that already on the second or third day any dish loses its charm and freshness.
• Some spices, such as ginger, pepper or saffron, are best put after the soup is cooked in a slow cooker - that is, before serving. The same goes for cheese and butter in creamy soups.
• Be mindful of the processing time for each ingredient. Perhaps some of them need to be boiled in advance?

And most importantly: even relying on a smart machine, you still constantly control the cooking process personally. Most likely, you will need to remove the foam, and in some models of the previous generations, the cooking time is not set at all, so you will have to act as a timer yourself.

Slow cooker soup recipe

In this case, we mean soups in the Panasonic multicooker (as tried on personal experience). Each model is usually accompanied by a recipe book, consider the most popular. So, pea soup:cooking takes place in the "steaming" mode, before that - "quenching". Also, the “baking” mode allows you to fry meat or vegetables separately for soup.

For 2 liters of soup we take 200 g of carrots and three on a grater. Add onions and sweet peppers, cauliflower inflorescences. Pour vegetable oil into the bowl and fry the vegetables for 15-20 minutes, not forgetting to stir. After that, add 200 g of washed peas there, diced potatoes, pour the finished broth (beef is good). Add a little s alt and spices to taste, and then put in the "stewing" mode for two hours. These are the soup recipes offered by the slow cooker!