When it comes to cooking the first dish, the peculiarities of adhering to the cooking technology are more relevant than ever. Yes, we are used to cooking using traditional heat treatment - standing at the stove. But with the advent of pleasant technical troubles, certain dilemmas arise in our lives.
On the one hand, as the manufacturers of the same multicookers, juicers and combines promise us, life becomes much easier, with such assistants! But on the other ...
How to cook soup in a slow cooker, young mothers can’t figure out what to speak of a grandmother, for whom such a gift might turn out to be a “demonic thing”? Actually, there is nothing complicated: pour the ingredients and turn on the mode. It remains to deal with the sequence and small nuances of how to cook soup in a slow cooker.
What are we cooking from?
In general, the first dish involves a careful selection of ingredients, and most importantly - quality control. It only from the outside seems that boiled water kills all bacteria. Make sure that the products are well cleaned, washed and cut in adequate portions.
Before you cook soup in a slow cooker, read the instructions attached to it: most likely, a set of recipes, cooking time and other useful tips will be indicated there.
Here are some ideas on how to make the dish tastier, healthier, and the whole cooking process easier:
- Do not add water during the cooking process. If it seemed to you that the liquid level is low, adjust it immediately (taking into account the boiling process).
- You should not cook 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 placed already after you cook the soup in a slow cooker - that is, before serving. The same penitents for cheese and butter in cream soups.
- Consider the processing time for each of the ingredients. Perhaps some of them need to be boiled in advance?
And most importantly: even relying on a clever machine, still constantly monitor the cooking process personally. Most likely, you will need to remove the foam, and in some models of previous generations, cooking time is not set at all, so you will have to act as a timer yourself.
Slow cooker recipe
In this case, we mean soups in the pan-cooker "Panasonic" (as tried by 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 - "stewing". 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 prepared broth (beef is good). Add some salt and spices to taste, after which we put in the mode of "stewing" for two hours. These are the multicooker offers recipes for soups!