Slow cooker soup recipes can be cooked over the stove top using a big stock pot but it would be so much easier if made in a crockpot.
Basically, all the simmered soups recipes found on this website can be cooked using the slow cooker. If the recipes didn't mention using the slow cooker, you can substitute by keeping in mind the tips below.
Slow cooker tips
Remember to follow the tips below if you are trying to substitute a soup recipe using the stove top with a slow cooker.
- There will be less evaporation as compared to stove top cooking. Less liquid should be used if you are using a chinese soup recipe that uses an open stove method of cooking soup. In any case, the glazed earthern pot shouldn't be more than 80% full.
- Use hot or warm water instead of room temperature water to shorten the cooking time. That is, if you are really pressed for time.
- Keep your pets out of the kitchen when using the crock pot. The outer casing may get fairly hot. You won't want your pets especially curious cats to get hurt.
- If you do not have a slow cooker and are thinking of getting one, see if you can find a programmable slow cooker with a timer and a keep warm setting. My family has gone through a couple ... yes, we are heavy users. I mentioned earlier that you didn't have to check on the soups constantly. The problem is sometimes I forget that I even had it on. Also, when my granny prepare soups early, she will leave it on LOW using it as a KEEP WARM setting. This means by the time I get home for dinner, the soups can be overcooked. So, when I'm drinking soups that are slightly overcooked, I wish mine had a timer and can keep warm.
Many slow cookers I come across at the shops in Singapore are not programmable. Their target market must be full-time homemakers.
Hamilton beach has a series of programmable slow cooker called Set N Forget. I really like their 33956 5 quart slow cooker.
The slow cooker has become ubiquitous in a chinese kitchen because they can be used to make chinese soups that require long hours of simmering. Here is a small collection of chinese soup recipes that can be made using a slow cooker.
- Beef brisket soup
- Beef soup recipe with chinese herbs
- Beef soup recipe with ox shin
- Borscht soup Hong Kong style
- Oxtail soup recipe
- Chicken corn soup recipe
- Chicken soup with fresh chinese yam and arrowroot
- Chinese chicken soup with solomon's seal
- Beef shank soup with goji and longans
- Ginseng lamb congee
- A very basic lotus root soup
- Pork bone soup with chinese yam and red dates
More soup recipes using the crockpot available here.
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