Slow Cooker Chicken Barley Vegetable Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the chicken broth and pour into slow cooker.
• Place chopped vegetables; onions, garlic, celery and carrots in microwave container; microwave 5 minutes.
• Spoon into Slow cooker and cook on High for 2 hours,.
• Heat up mushrooms in microwave.
• Add rinsed barley,chicken and mushrooms, salt and pepper to the Slow Cooker.
• On high cook another hour.
• Serve with crackers.

Steps:

• Combine water, chicken thighs, and bay leaves in a large stock pot; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, place a cover on the pot, and cook at a simmer until the chicken is tender, about 30 minutes.
• Remove chicken to a cutting board to cool. Remove and discard bones, skin, and fat from chicken. Cut remaining meat into bite-sized pieces.
• Cool broth until the fat congeals on the surface. Skim and discard fat.
• Return soup to heat; add carrots, celery, onion, pearl barley, bay leaves, chicken bouillon, poultry seasoning, sage, salt, and black pepper. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce heat to low, place cover on the pot, and simmer until the barley is cooked and the vegetables are tender, 60 to 90 minutes. Stir lemon juice into the soup just before serving.

Steps:

• Combine beef, diced tomatoes with garlic, tomato-vegetable juice cocktail, potatoes, tomato sauce, carrot, barley, onion, green beans, corn, bell pepper, celery, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, thyme, oregano, marjoram, basil, beef bouillon cubes, bay leaves, sea salt, and black pepper in the crock of a large slow cooker.
• Cook on Low until the beef is tender, 7 to 8 hours. Add mushrooms and cook 1 hour more.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spread slivered almonds evenly over a baking sheet. Toast in preheated oven until golden brown and fragrant.
• Heat the oil in a large stock pot over medium heat. Cook onions, celery, mushrooms, and garlic in oil until onions are tender.
• Stir in carrots, potatoes, chicken, and broth. Bring to a boil, then stir in barley. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 20 minutes.
• Remove from heat, and stir in butter, parsley, and toasted almonds. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Steps:

• In 5- to 6-quart slow cooker, layer all ingredients except tomatoes; do not stir.
• Cover; cook on Low setting 6 to 8 hours.
• About 10 minutes before serving, stir tomatoes into soup. Cover; cook on Low setting 10 minutes longer or until tomatoes are thoroughly heated. Remove bay leaf before serving.

Steps:

• In 4- to 5-quart slow cooker, place carrots, celery and onion. Place chicken breasts on vegetables. Add remaining ingredients except parsley and thyme.
• Cover; cook on Low heat setting 8 to 9 hours.
• Remove chicken from cooker; place on cutting board. Remove meat from bones and chop into 1/2- to 1-inch pieces; discard bones.
• Stir chicken, parsley and thyme into stew. Increase heat setting to High. Cover; cook 10 to 15 minutes longer or until chicken is thoroughly heated.

Steps:

• The celery and onions can be reduced to 1 cup each and replaced by one or more of the optional vegetables.
• Place everything in a large crockpot with dial set on High; cook 1-2 hours.
• Reduce heat to Low setting; cook for 6-8 hours.
• or.
• Set crockpot on low and cook 10 hours.
• Add water or canned broth to thin the soup if it gets too thick.
• This can be frozen in individual portions and reheated as needed.

Steps:

• In a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 11 ingredients. If desired, cut larger chicken strips into bite-size pieces; add to slow cooker., Cook, covered, on low 8-10 hours or until potatoes are tender. Stir in spinach.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in large soup pot or Dutch oven. Cook onions, celery, carrots and garlic until soft, about 8 minutes. Add thyme, salt and pepper, stir, and cook another minute to let vegetables absorb seasonings.
• Add water and chicken stock to pot and bring to a boil. Add barley and reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 45 minutes, or until barley is thoroughly cooked.
• Stir in diced chicken and fresh green beans. Cover and simmer an additional 15 minutes.
• Immediately stir in Parmesan cheese until dissolved. Serve.

Steps:

• Bring chicken broth to boil in large pot over medium heat; add pearl barley, mushrooms, carrots, celery and onion and simmer for 25 minutes; add potato and simmer 15 minutes longer, or until barley is tender; add chicken, herbs and lemon juice to soup; season to taste; simmer 5 minutes; if you like a thinner soup, thin with some more chicken broth.
• Note: If you want a'richer' soup, add up to 1/2 cup olive oil to the stock.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook chicken in 1 tablespoon oil until no longer pink. Remove and set aside., In the same pan, saute the leeks, celery and carrot in remaining oil for 4 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic; cook 2 minutes longer. Stir in the broth, water, seasonings and chicken. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes., Stir in barley and return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until barley and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf.