Blend and Cook Soup Maker

This delightful and very easy to make Spiced Carrot Soup is designed for the Cuisinart Blend and Cook Soupmaker, however, you can easily adapt this to prepare on the stove top. It takes just 20 minutes to produce amazing homemade soup. When you first start weaning your baby off the breast milk, you can puree all their first fruit and vegetables and it can be a real time saver. Morphy Richards Soup Maker Vs .

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Within about a 40 minute time frame (from start to finish), I had an incredibly flavorful and unbelievably silky smooth Spiced Carrot Soup that would be luscious enough to serve to company. It was garnished with crispy Prosciutto, a dollop of Greek Yogurt and some snipped cilantro. cuisinart soup maker The Scotch broth was thoroughly cooked, including the pearl barley, after about half an hour. After a quick blitz on level 2 – levels 3 and 4 are deactivated if the contents are over 60 degrees C – the soup was consistently creamy but still retained some texture and bite.

And with the weather looking every so slightly rainy these next few weeks, there’s no doubt we’ll be turning to home cooked soups a little more often. If you have any questions, suggestions for future reviews or spot anything that has changed in price or availability please get in touch at There’s a lot more to this product than adding the ingredients, selecting a programme and walking away, which could be considered a plus or a minus depending on your approach to cooking. “Soup is one of the simplest foods,” Harris explains, “which sadly means it is often the dumping ground for sub-standard ingredients.” Gwen Pratesi is a James Beard Foundation Award Finalist in Journalism and award-winning travel writer.

Here, you can personalise temperature and time, to perfect whatever recipe you’ve chosen to make. My potato and leek soup came out a tad watery, thought not at all unpleasant. The first soup I made here was a traditional carrot and coriander.

Turning the heat up to high and sealing the lid with the measuring cup, we left the mixture to cook. We then used this curry paste in the Thai chicken & red chilli soup. The smooth setting takes just 23 minutes, and my butternut squash and orange soup was delicious.

Ease of Cleaning
Not easy to clean at all, you can take it apart somewhat, but it’s still so very hard to really get it cleaned. Ease of Use
It’s easy to use but you won’t get the results you’re looking for most of the time. Design
Very poor design, you can’t even clean it properly which is really gross.

Size-wise, they’re analogous to blenders, though some can be a bit bigger. Around 1.2 to 1.6 litres tends to be capacity, so opt for a bigger model if you’re making dinner for a family; smaller if going solo. The Soup Maker has a wealth of inspired design features that mean making soup is easy as well as safe. As you can’t blend while heating like many soup makers which offer a smooth setting, it does mean you need to chop vegetables well to ensure you end up with a smooth consistency.

She is the author and owner of PratesiLiving.com with her husband, coauthor of Southern Heat, and co-owner of On the Road Culinary Adventures, a culinary travel business. She is a contributor to the Travel section of U.S. Her work has also been featured on MSN, Yahoo! She and her husband traded in big city life in Atlanta for shorts and flip-flops on Fernandina Beach, Florida.

I followed the instructions and it felt like there were a lot of steps. But I really think it would have been easier to cook it on the stove. This would be a very good thing to have if you don’t have a stove.