Slow Cooker Mediterranean Meatball Soup
You’ll love this delicious Slow Cooker Mediterranean Meatball Soup, an easy weeknight meal the entire family will enjoy!
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Friends, just in time for Mother’s Day, I’m giving away a KitchenAid® Multi-Cooker, one of my favorite small appliances that I use weekly, plus I’m sharing one of my newest soup recipes today!
I really wanted to host a giveaway for Mother’s Day, with one of my favorite small appliances in my kitchen. Do you ever feel that you have too many small appliances? I have recently felt this way, especially since we’re downsizing and I cannot take everything with us.
Kitchenaid® Multi-Cooker
This product is fantastic though, because it has 11 pre-programmed functions: Risotto, Rice, Simmer, Sauté, Sear, Boil/Steam, Yogurt, Slow Cook (High and Low), plus automatic Keep Warm. Also the clear glass lid allows for easy pouring and straining.
I’ve been able to give away my rice cooker and large crock pot, as this multi cooker is so functional. That feels good!
As for the recipe today, it’s a yummy one!
Slow Cooker Mediterranean Meatball Soup
It has everything that I love in a soup, especially sweet fennel. Only in the past few years have I started cooking with fennel, and now I’m hooked. I love it cooked, and I love it raw!
In this recipe you can make your own meatballs, or you can buy them. When I get in a pinch, I like to buy Aidells meatballs. You can even freeze these and put them into the pot frozen!
Get it simmering early in the morning, and then by dinnertime, the house smells so good.
Serve with a couple of Kalamata olives on top, with a sprinkle of feta cheese.
A loaf of crunchy bread.
Your family will LOVE love love this soup!
Oh, and here’s a little something that I’ve been doing this past year. When I cook a large recipe like this, with the leftovers I dish up a couple of servings and send them to work my friends who work nearby. They drive by my house in the morning, and I hand them over their lunch. Pretty sweet, right? :) Its fun to bless with food!
Enter to WIN! — contest is CLOSED
Remember the Multi-Cooker can sear, caramelize, and saute–all in one pot, and the temperature can be put on different settings, or you can manually change it. It also has a programmable timer! It comes with very easy instructions, too! You can also choose your favorite color: red, black, or silver!
It’s just overall FABULOUS!
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY and good luck! Just answer the question below for your name to go into the drawing (random counter). And, you do not have to be a mother to enter! :) Feel free to share this on your twitter, instagram, or Facebook page for an extra entry! Just come back and let me know. THREE entries maximum, counting the comment. CONTEST CLOSED (winner is Terri).
What soup are you dying to make in this multi-cooker?
Get the Recipe:
Slow Cooker Mediterranean Meatball Soup
Ingredients
- 2 packages Aidells Caramelized Onion Meatballs
- 1 large fennel bulb, trimmed and sliced thinly
- 1 large onion, sliced thinly
- 1 32 ounce box chicken broth
- 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ¾ cup dried orzo pasta
- 5 cups shredded fresh spinach
- ⅓ cup Kalamata olives or other olives, halved
- Crumbled feta cheese, optional
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
Instructions
- Place Aidells Caramelized Onion Meatballs into a 4-quart slow cooker. Add the next seven ingredients (through pepper).
- Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours, or on high for 4 to 5 hours.
- If using low, turn cooker to high. Gently stir in pasta. Cover and cook for 20 to 30 minutes more, or until pasta is tender. Stir in spinach, and olives.
- Ladle soup into bowls. If desired, top servings with feta, lemon zest, and snipped fennel leaves.
More slow cooker recipes:
Moroccan Lentil Cauliflower Soup
Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup
This giveaway is sponsored by KitchenAid, but as always all opinions are my own. I use my Multi-cooker weekly in my home and I love it!
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Sincere question about the recipe: is there chicken in the meatballs, some other sort of meat or just caramelizad onions? There aren’t any Aidell’s meatballs near me so I have to make my own, but there are just so many different recipes that I don’t know which is the one closest to this recipe. Thank you very much.
You can use any flavor of meatball!
Definitely Taco Soup!
Goodness, Sandy, all my favorite flavors in one bowl – it would have to be this soup!! :)
I would give it to my sister so she could make something in it!
I would love to make a chili.
I would love to make Beefy Vegetable soup! I would love to own this Multi-Cooker!
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I would love to make the Mediterranean Meatball Soup in the Kitchen Aid Multi Cooker! It looks so delicious. I can’t wait to try so many recipes.
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Dying to try this luscious looking SLOW COOKER MEDITERRANEAN MEATBALL SOUP! :)
id like to make stew i had no idea you could do all of this in the new crock pot im impressed and knowing this saves time and the flaver should be so much better since all the juices will soak in id make beef stew its not typical i throw peas beans and all kinds of stuff in it
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Our kids love meatballs so I’m dying to try the SLOW COOKER MEDITERRANEAN MEATBALL SOUP.
I’d love to try any of the soup recipes on here, using the multicooker.
Sweet potato jalapeño soup!
I would love to make a pot of Beef and Cabbage soup like you get at Shoneys.
Hmm – I make a roasted carrot and ginger soup – wonder if I could make it all in the multicooker instead of roasting the carrots separately first. That and lentil soup are my standards, and both would suit the multicooker well.
Your soup sounds delicious and light! Yum.