Sauerkraut soup in a slow cooker

If sauerkraut is sour to your taste, then you can wash it in clean running water, so excess acid will be removed. And if cabbage and brine are very tasty, then you can add brine and broth during cooking, cabbage soup will turn out even tastier.
I wash the chicken, cut it into small pieces, put it in a saucepan, fill it with water and put it in a bowl of a slow cooker, fill it with water to the desired mark, but 3 liters of water is enough for such an amount of ingredients.
Potatoes are washed, cleaned, cut into strips.
Carrots are grated on a coarse grater, onions are finely chopped.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put onions and carrots in a frying pan, fry, stirring, until the vegetables are lightly browned. Vegetable frying can not be done, then the soup will be more useful. But it gives a zest to the soup and a pleasant taste. If desired, you can add tomato paste to the vegetable roast and fry vegetables with it a little more, then the taste and color of the broth will change.
Vegetable frying is sent to the bowl of a slow cooker with chicken. Immediately put potatoes, sauerkraut, spices to taste there. We wash the barley groats and also put them in a slow cooker. The difference between cooking in a slow cooker is that all the ingredients can be put together at once. Barley groats can not be added if you want to get a vegetable and lighter soup, it only adds density and nutrition. You can put some other cereal or more potatoes. We put on the program « soup », in time it is 1 hour. Chop the garlic with a knife or a garlic grinder and send it to the broth. Garlic will give the cabbage soup a special aroma and taste. You can also add any greens, for example, parsley.
Turn off the slow cooker, but leave the bowl of soup under the lid to brew for about 20 minutes.
Serve to the table. Delicious with sour cream and crackers.
Bon appetit!