Slow Cooker Beef, Potato, and Quinoa Soup

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  2 tsp or 9g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  6 medium or 90g

• Quinoa

  Uncooked

  ½ cup or 85g

• Garlic

  Raw

  2 cloves, minced or 6g

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw, year round average

  1 medium whole or 123g

• Seasoning mix, dry, sazon, coriander & annatto

  ½ tsp or 2g

• Cumin

  Spices, cumin seed

  1 tsp, ground or 3g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ dash or 0.2g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ½ dash or 0.05g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  6 tbsp or 6g

• Beef round

  Bottom round, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, all grades, raw

  8 oz or 227g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  ½ lb or 227g

• Beef broth or bouillon canned soup

  Ready-to-serve

  5 cup or 1.2kg

• Carrots

  Raw

  1 large or 72g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  2 tbsp or 19g

• Potato

  Flesh and skin, raw

  2 Potato medium or 426g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 dash or 0.1g

Directions

1. Prepare quinoa as per package directions; set aside.
2. Sauté oil in a large pot, add scallions and garlic and sauté until soft over medium heat, about 3 minutes. Add tomato, cumin, sazon, 1/2 dash of salt, pepper, an 1/4 cup cilantro and cook another 2 minutes.
3. Add beef, broth, carrot, bell pepper, and salt, and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer on low about 1 1/2 hours, until meat is tender and cooked through.
4. Add potato and cooked quinoa and cook an additional 25 minutes. Add remaining chopped cilantro and serve.
5. Enjoy!
6. Recipe inspired by: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/01/beef-potato-and-quinoa-soup.html