Having received a slow cooker for my birthday (rock ‘n’ roll!) I’ve been enjoying some tasty dishes, culled from a couple of recipe books aimed at said method of cooking. Meat based dishes are wonderfully tender, and full of flavour, soup based dishes are thick, wholesome and not laced with salt like most canned soups (speaking of which, erk!).
Last night was my first shot at using it without a recipe. I had some vegetables left over from other recipes and so decided on soup as a ‘foolproof’ offering.
Unless you are this fool, it seems.
Where did I go wrong? Here are the ingredients:
- 1 Onion
- 1 Leek
- 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
- 1 ‘thumb’ of ginger
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Squash
- Red Lentils
- 1 pint of stock
- Crushed Cumin
- Pepper for seasoning
I wasn’t expecting anything amazing but it’s decidely… not quite right.
And I can’t put my finger on why not… the balance is obviously wrong, but how do I fix it?