5 Essential Vegetarian Slow Cooker Soups Everyone Should Know — Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinners

The slow cooker is the workhorse of my kitchen, and it is used so often that it holds a permanent place on the kitchen counter. Although this humble appliance often wins praise for its ability to magically transform meat from tough to tender, it actually is the perfect vehicle to coax the best characteristics out of a variety of vegetables.

Many slow cooker soups benefit from all-day cooking, while there are some whose flavors reach their peak after just a few hours. These five vegetarian soups are what we consider the essentials and we're even going to share how they can work on in your meal plan. There some that deliver when you need a soup that is ready as you walk in the door after a day out of the house and some you set to simmer for an hour or two while you work around the house or run errands.

No matter what, we say: Don't relegate vegetarian cooking to Meatless Mondays. Instead, commit these five vegetarian slow cooker soups to memory, and breeze through dinner knowing one of these vegetable-packed soups will work in the meal plan.

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