Best Ever Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup

This soup is absolutely packed with nutrition and somewhere around this world it will be winter, and what a treat for a cold winter's day. Get ready to warm your heart and nourish your soul with our irresistibly delicious slow cooker vegetable soup. Packed with vibrant colors, robust flavors, and a medley of nutritious vegetables, this recipe is the ultimate comfort in a bowl. As the flavors combine  over hours of gentle simmering, each spoonful of this vegetable soup becomes a burst of goodness that warms you from the inside out.

So, grab your chopping knife, dust off that slow cooker, and get ready for a soup that will have you going back for seconds and thirds. and maybe even fourths.

Let's embark on this culinary journey to create the best ever vegetable soup that your taste buds will savor, and your family will adore.

Thought we would add the benefits of some of the ingredients used in this vegetable soup recipe, which would really inspire you into making this soup for your family.

Medicinal Benefits of Onions

• Quercetin is a flavonoid contained in onions, which is a powerful natural antioxidant, a natural antihistamine as well as a natural anti-inflammatory.
• Onions also contain sulfur (hence the pong) which is excellent for the skin, as well as for  removing warts.
• The flavonoid contained in onions is also beneficial in lowering cholesterol levels and  lowering blood pressure
•  It is said to help clean the blood and protect us against toxic build up.
• Onions are rich in vitamins C, B1, B6 and K, folic acid, organic Sulphur, phosphorus and calcium.
• They also have a high pectin content and contain flavonoids and volatile oils.

Medicinal Benefits of Tomatoes

• They are a good source of Potassium.
  
• They contain very few kilojoules.
  
• A useful source of Vitamins C and E.
  
• They are rich in lycopene, a powerful and protective antioxidant.
  
• They are also rich in calcium, magnesium phosphorus and Folic Acid.
  
• They are low in purines which is the culprit for causing uric acid problems.

And in closing, we thought you might like a taste of some of the other recipes on our menu.

This article was printed from Home-Cooking-Haven.com.com

Oven Temp's

Cooking Terms and Tips

Al Dente: Usually applied to Pasta, means cooked until just done, but not soft. The pasta should still maintain some "bite:

Barbeque:  To cook foods over coals, known as a Braai in South Africa (The best in the world for this type of cooking).

Baste: To moisten food for added flavor and to prevent drying out while cooking.

Blanch: To cook briefly in boiling water to seal in flavour and color.

Bouquet Garni: A tied bundle of herbs, usually parsley, thyme, and bay leaves that are added to flavor soups, stews, and sauces but removed before serving.

Braise: Two cook first by browning, then gently simmer till done.

Bread: To coat with crumbs or cornmeal before cooking.

Broil: To cook on a rack or spit during or over direct heat, usually in and on top.

Brown: Two cook over high heat, usually on top of the stove, to brown food.

Caramelize: To Heat sugar until it liquefies and becomes a syrup.

Core: To remove the seeds or tough woody centers from fruits and vegetables.

Cream: The butterfat portion of milk.   Also to beat ingredients, usually sugar and a fat, until smooth and fluffy.

Cube: To cut food into small ½ inch cubes.

Cut In: To distribute a solid fat in flour using a cutting motion, with 2 knives used scissors-fashion or a pastry blender, until divided evenly into tiny pieces.  Usually refers to making pastry.

Croutons: These are tiny cubes of toasted or fried bread, used as a garnish.

Coriander:  Also known as Dhania.

Dollop: A spoonful of soft food such as whipped cream or mashed potatoes.

Dot: To scatter butter in bits over food.

Dress: To coat foods such as salad with a sauce.  Also, to clean fish, poultry or game for cooking.

Drippings: Juices and fats rendered by meat or poultry while cooking.

Drizzle: To pour melted butter, oil, syrup, melted chocolate, or other liquid back and forth over food in a fine stream.

Experiment:   Always keep to the basics, but, take out and put in spices etc. to your tastes.

Fines Herbs: A mixture of herbs, normally parsley, chervil, chives and tarragon used to flavor fish, chicken and eggs.

Glace: To coat foods with glossy mixtures such as jellies or sauces.

Julienne: To cut into long thin strips match-sticklike in shape

Macerate: To soak in flavoured liquid; usually refers to fruit

Picked Over:  If you are working with lentils or other beans you might sometimes find a few little rocks that managed to sneak their way in, picked over means to make sure there are none left in what you are going to be using.

Poach: To cook gently over very low heat  is barely simmering liquid just to cover.

Puree: To mash or grind food until completely smooth. Usually in a food processor, blender, sieve, or food mill.

Ragout:  The basic method of preparation involves slow cooking over a low heat.

Reduce: To thicken a liquid and concentrate its flavor by boiling.

Render: To cook fatty meat or poultry - such as bacon or goose - over low heat to obtain drippings.

Sear:  To brown surface of meat quickly over a high heat, to seal in juices.

Simmer: To cook in liquid at just below boiling point, with only a few bubbles breaking the surface.

Skim:  To remove surface foam or fat from a liquid.

Seep:  To soak in a liquid just under the boiling point to extract the essence i.e. Tea.

Truss: To tie whole poultry with skin or skewers so it will hold its shape in cooking.

Whip: To beat eggs or cream with a wire whisk, eggbeater or electric mixer which increases the volume as air is incorporated into the eggs or cream.

Zest: The outer, colored part of the peel of citrus fruits.

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