Stockpile Stew
Stockpile Stew or Shut-in Soup is a quick and easy recipe using pantry cans and leftovers you already have in your refrigerator or freezer. This soup can be prepared in a stock pot or slow cooker.
Ingredients
- 1 can diced tomatoes with green chilies
- 1 can stewed or diced tomatoes
- 2 cans chili beans (or white, black, kidney, chickpeas, etc)
- 2 can whole kernel corn
- 2 can VegAll (mixed vegetables)
- 2 can minestrone soup
- 1-2 pounds meat - chicken, sausage links, or hamburger optional
- 1 cup pasta - spirals, bowtie, macaroni, penne optional
Instructions
- Cook (brown) the meat.
- In a crockpot, or stockpot, combine all the canned ingredients together. Do not drain.
- If using a slow cooker, let the soup simmer on low for 6-8 hours.
- If using a stockpot or dutch oven, combine the canned ingredients and meat. Allow to simmer for 1 hour.
- Boil noodles.
- In the crockpot, one hour before serving, add the meat and noodles.
- Serve the soup hot with french bread, crackers, chips and top with a little cheese
Notes
This really is a free for all, do it as you are able type of recipe. Mix and match whatever you already have on hand in the freezer, leftovers in the refrigerator. or on the shelves of your pantry. The goal here is to use up extras and random things you already have instead of purchasing something new.
Other options:
- saute onions or bell peppers
- add potatoes or carrots
- tomatoes - stewed, Italian, diced, Mexican, with celery, chili ready
- any type of vegetable soup with noodles
- no creamy base soups
- red beans and rice
- Chicken - ground, rotisserie chicken, canned chicken, white or dark meat
- beef - stew meat, ground, brisket, steak
- sausage - andouille, turkey, chicken, hot links, bouidan, smoked
- turkey - ground, cup up leftovers, but not lunch meat!
- pork - ground, ham chunks, maybe even leftover chops, but no lunch meat!
- deli - I've used peppered pastrami before, actually it was my preference for this soup at one time