Slow Cooker Sunday: Boxing Day Hearty Vegetable Soup
Cuisine: Soup
Author: Mediocre Mum
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 8 hours
Total time: 8 hours 10 mins
Ingredients
  • 1 TBSP of oil oil
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 50g of yellow lentils
  • 50g of green lentils
  • 50g of red lentils
  • 1 tin (400g) butter beans drained and rinsed
  • 80g pearl barley
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and diced
  • 2 potatoes, peeled and diced
  • 1 parsnip, peeled and diced
  • 1 litre of vegetable stock
  • Salt and pepper
  • Dried Parsley
Instructions
  1. Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the onions for about 3 minutes until soft.
  2. Transfer to the slow cooker
  3. Add lentils, butter beans, barley, carrots, potatoes, parsnip, stock and season with salt and pepper. Stir, cover and cook for 8 hours on low. Add a pinch of dried parsley, ladle into bowls and serve with crusty bread.
Recipe by Mediocre Mum at http://mediocremum.com/2012/12/slow-cooker-sunday-boxing-day-hearty-vegetable-soup/