Healthy Crock Pot Recipe

Crock pot soups and roasts are a delicacy throughout the world.  Healthy crock pot recipe is modified and unique to ordinary cooking styles, yielding rich, aromatic products whilst allowing unattended cooking.

With fast-to-cook-recipes dominating the prospect, the crock pot saves the delight, for true kitchen lovers, of a real essence of cooking.  Besides that, the richer liquid obtained from healthy crock pot recipe is not found in time-saving quick-cooking methods. Seeing that aspect, no one deny trying a crock pot cooking technique for added health benefits with the ultimate results of long and moist cooking. The process has further been made easier with the thermostats and automatic switches of modern crock-pots. Just set it on before leaving and the crock-pot will do the rest for you.

Beef barley crock pot soup recipe

Required Ingredients:

• 1 pound lean stew beef, cut in 1/2-inch cubes

• 1/2 cup chopped onion

• 2 ribs celery, chopped

• 2 medium carrots, diced

• 3/4 cup barley

• 1 bay leaf

• 6 cups beef broth

• 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste

• pepper, to taste

• ½ cup parsley

• ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves

Put stew beef, onion, bay leaf, thyme leaves and beef broth in a crock pot and cook for 4 to 5 hours. Add celery, carrots and barley to cook for another 2-3 hours on low in the crock pot. Add salt and pepper to taste and garnish with fresh parsley. Serve hot.   

Barley

Barley is an annual cereal grain that is being used in healthy cooking for ages. Research shows that barley plays an imperative role in lowering blood cholesterol in hypercholesterolemia. It is also known for improving blood glucose levels. Barley is a good source of both soluble and insoluble fiber; therefore, barley intake is a very useful way to meet nutritional goals.  

Celery

Crunchy celery ribs make a very good component of soups and salads. Celery leaves are rich in vitamin A whereas its stem contains high content of vitamins B1, B2, B6 and C with rich supplies of potassium, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, sodium and plenty essential amino acids. Apart from nutritional benefits, celery is known to have combating powers in cases of acidity, athletes, cholesterol, colon and stomach cancer, constipation and inflammation. Celery juice wonderfully helps to cool down body temperature during hot and dry weathers. No matter which healthy crock pot recipe you are trying, it shouldn't be devoid of celery leaves and stalks! 

Carrot

Carrot serves as a major ingredient of salads for years. It contains carotene, a chemical that is converted into vitamin A by the body that helps prevent night blindness. Carrot improves the appearance of skin, hair and nails and enhances the quality of breast milk. Beta-carotene in raw carrots prevents cancer. Carrot juice prevents bodily infections and is claimed to be valuable for the adrenal glands.  Above all, carrots are accepted to have wonderful impact on eyesight.

Thyme

Thyme is a delicate looking culinary herb with a gifted medicinal value. Besides giving a heady aromatic flavor to food, it adds a great deal to its nutritional and health value. Thyme is particularly good for chest and respiratory infections such as bronchitis or asthma. It is antiseptic and disinfectant in nature and is known to expel parasites in the body. Thyme tea is also known for subsiding pre menstrual syndrome.

There you have it – an appetizing beef barley soup full of nutritious ingredients. Try this healthy crock pot recipe today!