Crock Pot Recipe - Spinach & Rice Soup

Spinach is a power food. I love it. I can eat it steamed with butter, sliced onions, and chopped garlic. I love it in tossed salad, stir fried, or in soup. It is packed with valuable nutrients and has a distinct taste. Eaten from a can, the taste of spinach is not always pleasing to the palate. Eating it will help you meet your daily nutritional requirements including calcium, iron, folate, and vitamin A.

My children have no problem eating spinach. If I decide to steam it, I don't cook it until it is slimy. When I put in in soup, like this recipe, I chop it small so it will easily masked as it cooks all day. It's chances of becoming a bit slimy are higher when used in a crockpot recipe. For this recipe I add it unthawed along with the boiled along with the seasoned and unthawed meat already boiled, as soon as I get home. By the time we settle down and and are ready to serve dinner, the steam has cooked the spinach perfectly and heated up the meat.

These are the ingredients you will need for a large crockpot (holds about 8 cups). You will have to experiment with portions if you own a small crockpot.

3 cups water
1 14--ounce can chicken broth or 3 tablespoons of chicken base and 1 1/4 extra cups of water
1 10-3/4-ounce can cream of chicken soup
2/3 cup uncooked wild rice or brown rise, rinsed, and drained
1/2 teaspoon dried crushed thyme
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 cups fresh shredded spinach
Optional: 3 cups chopped cooked chicken or turkey (about 1 pound)


Directions

1. Combine all ingredient in your crockpot.
2. Covertightly and cook on low-heat setting for 7 to 8 hours or on high-heat
setting for 3-1/2 to 4 hours.
3. To serve, stir in chicken and spinach. Makes 6 (1-1/2-cup) servings.

It is easily ready to nourish your cells. All you need to do is add a salad or other raw vegetables with dip and a buscuit, dinner roll or other variety of bread.

Vegetable Variation: If you are not using meat, substitute a good vegetable soup base or vegetable broth and cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup.