This weekend I found Jerusalem Artichokes in my vegetable aisle and decided to make the following soup in my slow cooker.

Ingredients:

diced onion

Jerusalem artichoke

dried herbs (Italian mix)

vegetable broth

crab meat

Instructions:

I peeled the Jerusalem artichokes with a knife. I tried peeling them with a potato peeler but there are too many little knobs in this vegetable and I seemed to be peeling forever so I switched to a paring knife.  You could wash the Jerusalem artichokes and leave the skins on but I was already being adventuresome with a new vegetable and there was no need to go overboard.

I threw the Jerusalem artichokes,onions,dried herbs & vegetable broth into my slow cooker and then set it on low to cook for five hours. It looked really sad in the pot with all those little Jerusalem artichokes floating in the water. They are very light and slice like an apple. When I peered into the pot, it looked like there was not enough items in my crockpot but hang tight, when you attack it with your hand blender, it will look like this:

To make a full meal of it, I took crab meat and chopped it up and threw it into the soup and let it cook until the crab meat warmed.

Note:  I’m the only one in my family who ate this soup.  It has a funky taste like artichokes so if you like artichokes, you will like this soup. Someone wrote online that it has a nutty flavour.  I didn’t find the soup nutty.  In the future, I would combine the artichokes with carrots or another sweeter vegetable so that it balanced out the taste a bit.  I also think I would add cheese instead of crab meat but the crab meat was ok.

Ideally, I would take this soup, add a cheese cap that gets crusty like with an onion soup and then throw on some rye croutons or, maybe eat it with some chickpea crackers and tomatoes.

Here is the soup in a bowl with the crab meat:

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