recipe for chicken soup in a slow cooker
today i am super excited to be participatingin kin community's new year, new you collaboration! now for this collaboration dozens of youtubershave gotten together to post a new video every day through january with tips and tricks formaking 2015 your best year yet. for my part in this collaboration i'm sharing one of myvery favorite recipes that is perfect for #meatlessmonday. now this year i am reallyconcentrating on trying to eat less meat,
recipe for chicken soup in a slow cooker, and participating in #meatlessmonday is agreat way to do that. it's good for the environment, it's good for your wallet and it's certainlygreat for your health. today i'm going to share with you my recipe for my deliciousblack bean soup, and the coolest part is it all cooks up in your slow cooker so it's supersimple, you can just set it and forget it.
for this beautiful soup i'm going to get startedwith some red onion some celery and some diced red bell pepper. now you have two optionshere you can either dump these veggies straight into your slow cooker, that will totally work,or if you want to get a deeper flavor you can saute them first on the stove, that'swhat i'm going to do today. so i've just got some oil heating up in a frying pan and tothat i'm going to add my veggies. to this i'm going to be adding some minced garlicand some minced jalapeno. now if you don't like the heat you could totally leave thejalapeno out but i totally enjoy the heat so i'm going to go for it. we're going tosaute these for another 30 seconds and then we are going to add our spices. now i loveto toast my spices before they go into the
slow cooker because the flavor gets a lotdeeper and richer. so i am toasting up some cumin some chili powder and a little bit oforegano. i'm going to heat these spices up for another 30 seconds and then i'm just goingto deglaze the pan using some vegetable stock. i'm going to pour with whole mixture intomy slow cooker and then i'm going to build the rest of my black bean soup. for this recipei'm using canned black beans, you could totally use dried black beans as well but you'll wantto remember to soak them overnight to make sure they soften up enough. if you are usingcanned black beans you can just dump the entire can straight into the slow cooker, you don'thave to worry about rinsing or draining them. so i'm adding my black beans to my slow cookerand to that i'm going to add some salsa. now
you could totally use just plain diced tomatoesthat will work just as well but i find that adding salsa adds even more delicious flavorto the final soup. super good! and then the last step is topping up your slow cooker withmore vegetable broth. how amazing does this look, and i can tell you the house smellsincredible already. all i'm going to do is give this a really good stir, put on the lidand then set my slow cooker for 6-8 hours. of course the longer this simmers the moredelicious it's going to be. once your soup is ready you can use an immersion blenderto puree it. now if you don't have an immersion blender like this don't sweat it at all youcould totally use a traditional blender as well but i will tell you, you need to be veryvery cautious when you are blending hot liquids.
so, watch this video for full directions onthe safe way to blend hot soup. you just want to make sure that this is in the soup beforeyou start blending otherwise you can make quite a big mess. now i like to only pureeit half way so it's got that smooth rich texture but it also still has some chunks of blackbeans. that's the best way as far as i'm concerned! now that our soup is pureed we're just goingto add one more delicious element. we're going to squeeze the juice of two limes into oursoup. this is going to give it a really refreshing tangy flavor. i promise you that you do notwant to skip this step. we're going to give this a good stir and then it's time to serveour soup. i like topping mine with a little bit of sour cream, some fresh avocado slicesand some fresh cilantro. how amazing does
this look. totally effortless to put togetherand the final result could not be more delicious. i hope you'll give this tasty recipe a tryand if you do be sure to tweet or instagram me a photo because you know i love seeingwhat you're coming up with in your very own kitchens. and of course be sure to check outall of the other awesome videos in this new year, new you collaboration, you will notregret i!
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