This is where my latest obsession, the Cuisinart Blend and Cook Soupmaker, solves my soup dilemmas. The fascinating appliance combines a blender with a small heating plate which can saute vegetables and cook soup in 30 minutes. Cuisinart claims that its Soup Maker Plus SSB3U delivers perfect results, whether it’s chunky or smooth soup on the menu, or if you’re whipping up a smooth sauce for curry or pasta.
Also it leaks if you don’t get aggressive when you tighten the jar back to the base. Can also be used as a power blender for blending smoothies and crushing ice. We put the cuisinart griddler elite Plus to the test to see if the performance lived up to the price! This soup maker performs best when used for soups, milkshakes, and batter. Throughout all our tests, we found the glass goblet was an amazing feature of the soup maker because it meant you could keep an eye on how your dish was cooking. I used it to make soup out of leftover carrots for lunch the other day, and it was unbelievably good.
With four different power settings, the possibilities of producing delicious dishes are endless! We made butternut squash and chilli soup on the chunky soup setting and it was ready in 25 minutes. The Plus produced a delectable butternut squash soup which was full of flavour and moisture. Although it should be commended on its ability to deliver a great soup, we did find residue became easily trapped below the blades which made it a little harder to clean. The timer can only be set for up to 30 minutes at a time.
The blender also works beautifully for cold recipes, such as smoothies or ice-cream shakes. The glass jar puts you in control of your recipe, you can watch your meal cooking and adjust ingredients, heat and cooking time as required. Ingredients and seasoning can be added easily at any time during the cooking process without affecting the cooking cuisinart griddler elite cycle. Similar to a food processor, you can chop nuts, crush ice, grind spices, make bread crumbs, or whip cream. The recipe booklet included with the machine gives recipes for hot drinks like orange white hot chocolate or icy drinks like berry cherry smoothies or basil lemonade. This blender is very easy to use and has many features.
It is low in calories, really good for you (think beta-carotene) and very tasty. Within about a 40 minute time frame , I had an incredibly flavorful and unbelievably silky smooth Spiced Carrot Soup that would be luscious enough to serve to company. It was garnished with crispy Prosciutto, a dollop of Greek Yogurt and some snipped cilantro. Bring a state-of-the-art soup maker into the equation, and that changes everything. 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.