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 cuisinart pots and pans set.
It is low in calories, really good for you (think beta-carotene) and very tasty. Australian Soup Makers – We have noticed a growing trend of Aussie love for soup maker. Just like us they get a cold winter and love a big bowl of soup.
The first thing you must ask yourself is whether or not you should get a soup maker, before you even start to consider which soup maker brand/product would suit you. The Soup Maker and Blender is as sleek an appliance as I’ve seen. With its glistening charcoal finish and easy-to-read bright red LED displays, it’s like something out of the dashboard of a Bentley. Bring a state-of-the-art soup maker into the equation, and that changes everything. Cleaning is easy, requiring a drop of detergent and warm water, then running through a two-minute simmer followed by a one-minute blend. Overall, it’s a premium device with some useful functions, though admittedly comes at a greater cost.
There’s a high setting (up to 100C) for bringing liquids up to the boil and a simmer setting which is a lower temperature (up to 80C) and ideal for simmering soups. If you want to stir, you need to press the slow stir button. One of the biggest benefits of soup is its high comfort factor. Nothing, that is, except a bowl of warm homemade soup. With a combination appliance such as this soup maker, the comfort level is pushed even further as it reduces the time spent cooking, giving you more time to relax. What is my verdict after making soup in a blender?
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.
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.
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.
It takes 28 minutes to make perfect homemade soup. We figured that when she was old enough we would use it to make her blended baby food, plus it would be big enough for us grown ups to have some soup whenever we wanted to as well. We wished we’d chopped our ingredients for carrot & coriander soup more finely to reduce cooking time and create a finer result. You need to select the cooking mode and temperature, as well as choosing when to stir.