Monday, February 1, 2010

Slow Cooker Soup

0 Point Weight Watchers soup. Spicey, filling, easy, and very good!

10 oz baby spinach leaves
2 medium carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 large onion, diced
1 medium clove garlic, minced
4 cups broth (calls for vegetable, but I use chicken)
28 oz can diced tomatoes
2 bay leaves
1 T dried basil
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
Place all in crock pot; cover and cook on high for 5 hours. REMOVE bay leaves. Stir, and serve.  8 1-cup servings.

Hint: the bay leaves stay hard, but can be hard to pick out from the spinach. I would place them on the top after all other ingredients are in and remove before stirring. Also, I used a bag of baby spinach (maybe 9 oz) and at first thought it was way too much, but it cooks down and really is fine. In my fear I added 2 more cups of water and that didn't seem to bother the soup!

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