Cheryls Spicy Tomato Bean Veggie Soup Crock Pot Food

CROCK POT VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except for peas and corn in a slow cooker. Gently stir to combine. Cover and cook on LOW for 5-6 hours or on HIGH for 2-3 hours (or until potatoes and other vegetables are tender). Stir in the frozen peas and corn during the final 30 minutes of cooking time.
• Remove bay leaves. Season with additional salt and pepper, to taste. Ladle into bowls and serve!

SPICY SAUSAGE-KIDNEY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Pick over dried beans and soak for at least 4 hours. If not using a pressure cooker, soak beans overnight.
• Place beans in pressure cooker with enough beef stock or water to cover by 2 inches and process 12-15 minutes, depending on how long they've been soaked. (Feel free to add extra garlic or a bay leaf if you so desire.) Allow to come down from pressure naturally. If not using a pressure cooker, place in pot and simmer for 2-3 hours until almost tender, adding more liquid if necessary.
• In a large Dutch oven brown sausage, stirring to crumble the meat. Drain pan drippings if desired. Add onion and garlic and saute until transparent. Add tomatoes, bay leaf, stock or water, salt, seasoned salt, thyme and beans with their liquid whether canned or processed dry. Cover and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add bell pepper and diced potato; cover and simmer 20 more minutes until potatoes are tender. Remove bay leaf before serving.

SLOW COOKER CHICKEN, TOMATO AND WHITE BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place vegetables, garlic, salt and pepper in crock pot. Top with the chicken pieces, butter, broth and bouillon. DO NOT STIR.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 7 1/2 hours. Stir in drained tomatoes and beans; continue to cook 1/2 hour more.
• Before serving, stir in parsley and Tabasco sauce.

CROCK POT SPICY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• In heavy skillet, fry bacon until crisp. Remove to paper toweling.
• Sauté celery and onion in bacon drippings until tender.
• Add garlic; cook to fragrant.
• Place beans, water, broth, onion mixture, and ham in crock pot.
• Add seasonings and combine well.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 6-8 hours.
• Just before serving, extract about 1 cup of beans; mash well; and return to crock pot. Stir to blend.
• Add crumbled bacon.
• Serve with skillet cornbread or cheese crackers.

THICK CROCK POT TOMATO VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Add the first 12 ingredients to the crock pot (except extra kidney beans).
• Stir well.
• Cook on low for 8 hours.
• Before serving stir in the chicken, rice, extra kidney beans and peas.
• Allow to heat through and serve.
• I keep cooked chicken in portions in the freezer (from recipe#36944) and also the rice (recipe#56242) making this very easy to prepare.
• This recipe is gluten free as long as you use gluten free stock powder (such as Massell brand).

BLOCKBUSTER VEGETARIAN CROCK POT BLACK BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight in water to cover.
• If you don't soak the beans overnight:.
• In a large pot over medium heat, place the beans in three times their volume of water.
• Bring to a boil and let boil 10 minutes.
• Cover, remove from heat and let stand 1 hour.
• Drain and rinse.
• In a crock pot, combine soaked beans and 1 1/2 quarts fresh water.
• Cook for 3-7 hours on high, depending on how hot your cooker gets.
• Stir in carrot, celery, onion, garlic, bell pepper, jalapeno, lentils and tomatoes.
• Season with chili powder, cumin, oregano, black pepper, red wine vinegar and salt.
• Cook on low, 2 to 3 hours.
• Stir the rice into the crock pot in the last 20 minutes of cooking (if using brown rice add the last 1 hour).
• Puree half the soup with a blender or food processor, then pour back into the pot before serving.
• Serve with lime wedges, sour cream, and cilantro.
• Enjoy!

CROCK POT SAVORY BEAN AND SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• In a 3 1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker, combine vegetable broth, tomato puree, beans, rice, onion, basil, oregano, salt, pepper and garlic.
• Cover; cook on low heat setting 5-7 hours or on high heat setting 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours.
• Just before serving, stir in spinach or kale and sprinkle with Asiago cheese.

CROCK POT SPINACH-TOMATO-VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in a slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on high for 5 hours.
• Remove bay leaves, stir and serve.