How to Make Crockpot Soup Recipes Using Chicken

There are a lot of different ways to prepare chicken, including frying, sauteing, steaming, grilling, poaching and more. Chicken can also be cooked in a crockpot and since you need to add liquid to crockpot recipes because of the long, slow cooking time, this makes crockpot soup recipes a great idea.

Meat cooks well in a crockpot. Not only does it slowly tenderize over a period of hours but the flavor of slow cooked meat is incredible. It will soak up the flavors of all the other ingredients you use to make the crockpot soup recipe.

Cooking Chicken in a Crockpot

The best thing to do when making a chicken soup recipe is to chop the chicken into smaller pieces and brown it in a skillet in some butter or oil before adding it to the crockpot. Not every recipe for crockpot chicken soup will tell you to do this of course but sealing the chicken in this way helps to lock in the juices and it also gives the chicken an attractive golden brown color.

There are also plenty of recipes for chicken soup in a crockpot where you simply add every ingredient to the crockpot, give the mixture a good stir and leave it alone for ten hours. Recipes like these are fantastic when you have a busy day and you are not sure what time exactly you will be home.

Some of the more modern crockpots have a "keep warm" setting which is very handy. If you are more than an hour late your soup will stop cooking and keep itself nice and warm for you.

Crockpot Lamb Soup Recipe

Just to prove that chicken is not the only meat you can use to make delicious crockpot soup recipes, here is a wonderfully easy recipe for slow cooked lamb soup. The flavor of this soup is amazing.

This soup takes all day to cook in the crockpot so it is the perfect meal if you plan to be out working all day and you want to get home to a house that smells incredible and a meal which is all ready to serve. This recipe serves eight people but you can halve it if you want.

You will need:

• 1 1/2 lbs sliced lamb


• 3 sliced carrots


• 1 bay leaf


• 1/4 teaspoon salt


• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper


• 8 whole peppercorns


• 2 halved and sliced leeks


• 1 package French onion soup mix


• 1 sliced red onion


• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce


• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill


• 2 tablespoons olive oil


• 2 tablespoons dry gravy mix


• 3 sliced celery stalks


• 1 lb can chopped tomatoes


• 3 pints vegetable bouillon

How to make it:

Sprinkle salt and pepper over the lamb, then brown it all over in a skillet in the oil, cooking it in batches. Add everything to the crockpot except the dill and stir well. Cook on low for eight to ten hours. Add the dill, switch off the crockpot and stir and leave the lamb soup to rest for ten minutes. Stir it once more then serve hot.