Are you going out for shopping and need to prepare food for your guests coming over tonight? Or is there a party at your house tonight and you need to prepare food all alone? Well very obviously we all can see that you are short of time. So what to do in such a case? Well the answer to all such worries of yours is crock pot. With the advent of crock pot you can prepare your favorite recipes and do shopping or watch television at the same time. A crock pot prepares the recipes at a lower heating temperature thus benefiting you in two ways, first, it gives you time for other activities that demand your attention and secondly, it helps to preserve food’s essential Vitamins and Minerals from getting degraded.
These days crock pot recipes have gained so much popularity that there are numerous companies selling variations of crock pots. Similarly the numbers of books in the market on crock pot recipes too have grown exponentially. A new book on crock pot recipes can be found almost every other day. While the authors and publishers have been doing their work in the field of crock pot recipes, internet has not stayed behind. There are thousands of webpages dedicated purely to crock pot recipes. You can find hundreds of crock pot recipes on hundreds of websites. These are classified in alphabetical order or by their major ingredient. Some websites have also classified crock pot recipes by the time taken to prepare them. Recently many pre-mixed crock pot recipes have also been launched in the market. All you need to cook them is water and the pre-mixed food pack. Also the most general rule followed in crock pot recipes is that while converting them from normal recipes, the time for cooking can be doubled. Like if it takes 3 hours to produce something on your gas burner then it will take 6 hours when cooking in a crock pot. We’ll here discuss one of my most loved crock pot recipe. Believe me or not but the soups made in crock pot taste far more better than those made in microwave or on your normal gas burner.
Here we’ll discuss on how to prepare chicken soup in a crock pot. For this crock pot recipe you’ll need 1lb of boneless chicken (preferably chicken breast), water, a finely chopped onion, pepper, some boiled rice, celery and of course, salt.
Now to prepare the soup you need to cut the chicken smaller pieces in cube shapes. Now pour twelve cups of water into the crock pot. Add the chicken pieces into the water in the crock pot. Now add the onion, a bowl of boiled rice, cut celery and salt and pepper to taste. Leave the crock pot’s with lid closed for 5-6 hours on slow heating mode. This can serve 8-10 persons very easily.