Broccoli Soup In Your West Bend Slow Cooker

A tasty and nutritious soup with homemade bread is still tops. The time of the year does not matter, even in summer nothing can give the comfort that a soup with homemade bread can give you.

If you have a Cuisinart Csb-76 Smart Stick Hand Blender you can make a soup in your West Bend Slow Cooker and blend it in your slow cooker to exactly the consistency you want it to be.

For the homemade bread you will have no problems with a Zojirushi BB-HAC10 Breadmaker as it is programmable and it can have the bread ready when you get home. So, between your West Bend Slow Cooker, your Zojirushi BB-HAC10 Breadmaker and a Cuisinart Csb-76 Smart Stick Hand Blender you can have dinner ready almost on auto pilot! And it is even good enough to serve to guests.

Here is a tasty broccoli soup recipe that you can serve as is or blend into a creamy soup as you prefer.

Light and Creamy Broccoli Soup Recipe

What You Need For Your Broccoli Soup Recipe:

• 2 1/2 lbs fresh broccoli, chopped
• 1 T unsalted margarine or butter
• Water
• 2 C fat free milk (or whole milk or even a little cream if you feel naughty!)
• 1/2 C light processed cheese, cubed

How to Make It:

1. Remove any tough stalks from the broccoli and discard. (only the tough stalks as the stalks are very tasty in a soup)
2. Place the chopped broccoli into the crock pot.
3. Dot the margarine over the broccoli. (I prefer butter, of course!)
4. Fill the crock pot with just enough water to cover the broccoli pieces.
5. Cover and cook on the high temperature setting for 2 hours.
6. Pour in the milk, recover and continue cooking 30 minutes.
7. If you want to use your Cuisinart Csb-76 Smart Stick Hand Blender to blend the soup this is the stage to do it at.
8. Stir in the cheese, recover and continue cooking 20 minutes or until the cheese has completely melted into the soup.

Serving Size: 6

There's very little fat in this soup. If you want a little meat with your soup chop some cooked ham and add it to crock pot at the same time you add the broccoli.