Slow Cooker Peanut Soup ♥ Recipe

Today's soup recipe: An easy soup made with little more than peanut butter and chicken stock with a little rice for thickening. Will win no beauty awards but is surprisingly delicious and quite hearty.

With this recipe for peanut soup, I'm stretching the idea of 'vegetable'. Peanuts are, of course, not vegetables but legumes -- though they are not nuts, they're seeds of a small bush and actually -- did you know? I didn't! -- grow below ground.

Starting off, I had little hope for this soup, it tasted pretty flat. But after a few hours in my new programmable slow cooker, wow, what a change, the flavors really developed. Don't skip the jalapeños and red pepper flakes, they're needed to offset the peanut creaminess.

It is rich so for those watching calories, plan on a half cup serving and a big salad for lunch or supper.

SLOW COOKER PEANUT SOUP

Hands-on time: 20 minutes
Time to table: 6 - 7 hours
Makes 6 cups

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 jalapeño, minced
1/4 cup uncooked rice
5 cups chicken stock (I used homemade)

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup chicken stock (I used homemade) '

ADD for LAST HOUR of COOKING
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 jalapeño, minced
Kosher salt to taste

In a large skillet, heat the oil on MEDIUM HIGH til shimmery. Add the onion, celery and jalapeño as they're prepped, stirring to coat with fat, and cook til just beginning to turn golden. Transfer to the slow cooker. Add the rice and 5 cups chicken stock. Stir together peanut butter and 1 cup chicken stock, add to the slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 5 - 7 hours. (In my slow cooker, 6 was perfect.) Stir in the red pepper flakes, the second jalapeño and salt. Cook on LOW for 1 hour.

NUTRITION ESTIMATE
Per 1/2 Cup: 165Cal; 12g Tot Fat; 2g Sat Fat; 0mg Cholesterol; 573mg Sodium; 10g Carb; 2g Fiber; 3g Sugar; 7g Protein; Weight Watchers 4 points

TODAY'S VEGETABLE RECIPE INSPIRATION
Adapted from The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Volume II, Regional Comfort-Food Classics by Lynn Alley

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