Slow Cooker Creamy Vegetable Soup 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!

SLOW COOKER CREAMY TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic. Cook, stirring often until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Place in the bottom of a slow cooker.
• Add plum tomatoes, vegetable broth, tomato sauce, parsley sprigs, salt, and sugar to the slow cooker. Cover and cook on High until tomatoes are stewed, 3 to 4 hours. Remove parsley sprigs.
• Puree the soup using an immersion blender.
• Stir half-and-half into pureed soup. Cover and cook until heated through, 20 to 30 minutes.

SLOW COOKER VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Combine 6 cups vegetable broth, frozen vegetables, tomatoes with their juice, potatoes, onion, barley, garlic, parsley, oregano, basil, salt, black pepper, and bay leaf in a slow cooker. Cover and cook on Low for 5 to 6 hours.
• Place flour in a bowl; cut shortening into flour using a pastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add 1/4 cup vegetable broth; stir with a fork until dough no longer sticks on sides of bowl. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface; roll out 1/8 inch thick. Cut dough into strips or small squares. Add to slow cooker; cook until dumplings are soft and cooked in the middle, 1 hour.

SLOW COOKER CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place vegetables, thyme, and chicken broth in a slow cooker and cook for 4-5 hours on high.
• About 20 minutes before serving, melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.
• Whisk in flour, stirring constantly until smooth, then slowly begin to add the milk.
• Continue to stir constantly until the sauce thickens and clumps of flour are gone and the sauce has begun to thicken, then remove from heat.
• If you are partial to pureed cream soups use an immersion blender to roughly chop the vegetables in your crock pot (you can also transfer to a blender, but be careful!).
• Slowly pour the milk mixture into the vegetables mixture in the crock pot, and continue to cook until heated through.
• This will keep beautifully on "warm" for quite a while if you need to prepare anything else before serving.

WINNING CREAM OF VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute onion in butter until tender. Add flour; stir until blended. Gradually add broth. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. , Stir in the milk, cream, basil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Add the vegetables; cook gently until heated through.