In the summer, everyone has the opportunity to replenish the body with various vitamins and other useful elements. This is easy to do if you try to make mashed soup of zucchini with cream. It turns out to be tender, light and very tasty. There are many different ways to cook such a dish. For example, you can consider some of them.
Country option
Being out of town in the summer, do not forget about the good habit of cooking first courses daily. Moreover, to do this in the presence of a variety of vegetables will be quite simple. A good option for this case would be a soup puree of zucchini with cream.
You will need the following products:
3 small zucchini 5 potatoes, 1 tomato, 2 onions, 200 milliliters of cream, 4 cloves of garlic, 70 grams of hard cheese, 35 grams of olive oil and some greens (basil, parsley, dill).
Preparing a soup soup of zucchini with cream as follows:
- First, all vegetables must be washed well, and then carefully peeled. Peel the tomato, too, after dipping it briefly in boiling water.
- Cut onions, zucchini, tomatoes and potatoes into cubes, and chop the garlic randomly with a knife.
- Transfer the vegetables to the pan, pouring oil there, and put it on the fire. In this condition, the products should be slightly sweaty. During this time, they will gradually start letting juice out. For such extinguishing will take no more than 15 minutes.
- This time can be spent on chopping greens.
- Then you need to add water (or broth) to the pan and cook until the products are soft.
- Pour in greens, and a few minutes before the end of cooking add cream with grated cheese.
- After a short boil over low heat, the pan can be removed from the stove.
Now it remains only to grind its contents with a conventional blender. Before serving, the soup in a plate can be decorated with greens.
Children's menu
For children, you can prepare a special soup puree from zucchini with cream. However, this will take a little more time and the following set of ingredients:
for 3 small zucchini squash - 1 onion, a teaspoon of sugar, 2 cloves of garlic, salt, 1 carrot, a tablespoon of butter black pepper, 75 grams of cream and bay leaf.
Preparing a baby soup is very simple:
- In zucchini, cut the skin and remove the seeds if they turn out to be too large and stiff.
- Cut the peeled carrots into circles.
- Put all the vegetables in a pan, and leave the onions and garlic whole.
- Add a liter of water, sugar, bay leaf and cook for 20 minutes after boiling. The flame of fire should be small. It should be remembered that the bay leaf must be discarded after 5 minutes.
- The finished composition must be filtered.
- Then grind the vegetables with a blender to a homogeneous mass, and then dilute it with the remaining liquid to the desired density.
- Add the remaining components to the resulting puree and warm them together on the stove for about 5 minutes.
Ready soup should be allowed to brew for 10 minutes, and only after that it can be eaten.
Simplified version
How else can you make mashed zucchini soup? Recipes, as a rule, depend on the composition of the ingredients used. Using a minimal amount of ingredients makes an excellent low-calorie first course.
A family of four will need a little:
for two zucchini, one and a half liters of chicken broth and 1 carrot, as well as a little salt, dill, dried parsley and ground black pepper.
The whole process takes place in three stages:
- First you need to cook the broth, adding salt, carrots, dill, pepper and parsley to the chicken during cooking.
- In zucchini, cut the peel, and cut the pulp arbitrarily into large pieces. After that, they must immediately be added to the hot broth and cook for 10 minutes, until the product is softened properly.
- Then you need to drain the water, and beat the remaining vegetables well, turning them into a soft homogeneous mass.
It turns out a very tender soup puree from zucchini. Recipes for the preparation of first courses in this way do not include the addition of dairy products. In principle, this is not required. The finished mass is already very soft and aromatic.
For those on a diet
For supporters of wholesome nutrition, you can offer diet puree soup made from zucchini. To prepare it, you need a slightly different set of products:
1 medium zucchini 2 potatoes, salt, 2-3 cups of broth, onion, 50 grams of cream, ground pepper, 1 carrot and a little vegetable oil.
In this case, the work must be carried out in the following order:
- Thoroughly clean washed vegetables and peel the onion.
- Heat oil in a saucepan. Then add carrots and onions, chopped into rings, and sauté them a little.
- Chop the zucchini with potatoes at random, and then pour them into the stewpan.
- Pour the broth and mix foods well.
- After 20 minutes add pepper and salt. Soup puree from zucchini dietary can be considered ready when the vegetables are soft enough.
- Drain the bulk of the fluid, leaving no more than 200 milliliters.
- Using a blender, turn the contents of the stewpan into a thick puree.
After adding the cream, the mass must be mixed well once again, poured into plates and served, decorated with greens and crackers.
Creative way
Very tasty soup puree from zucchini can be made if you use an unusual composition of the main components:
0.5 kilograms of zucchini pulp 250 grams of peeled potato, leek stalk, 4 slices of bacon, 1 clove of garlic, half a cup of finely chopped celery stalk, ¼ teaspoon of salt and ground pepper, a glass of cream and a third of a glass of chopped fresh parsley.
Soup is prepared according to the following scheme:
- Finely chop the white part of the leek, rinse with cold water and dry it by folding it into a colander.
- Fry the bacon in oil for 10 minutes over low heat, and after cooling cut into pieces.
- In the same fat, simmer 3 minutes of garlic with onions and celery until soft.
- Pour the broth, add vegetables and cook for 25 minutes with a slight boil.
- Introduce cream, spices and herbs, and then leave the soup to infuse under the lid for 5 minutes.
- Grind the vegetable mixture to a puree state.
Serve the dish in soup plates, sprinkled with chopped bacon. Such vegetable puree will be delicious both hot and cold.
Technique to help
Recently, more and more equipment has appeared in the kitchen. She helps housewives cope with hard homework. In addition, it is much easier to cook with her. For example, a fragrant soup puree from zucchini in a slow cooker is done in a few minutes. First you need to collect on the desktop all the necessary products:
1 kilogram of zucchini, 1 onion, a clove of garlic, 100 grams of feta cheese, 3 tablespoons of sour cream and 0.5 liters of milk.
The cooking process will take place in three modes:
- First, vegetables need to be peeled and finely chopped.
- Zucchini put in the bowl of the crock-pot and set the mode of "double boiler". Transfer the finished mass to a separate container.
- Process onion with garlic for 5 minutes in the "baking" mode.
- Add them to the zucchini and beat with a blender until smooth.
- Put the finished mass into the bowl again. Put cheese, methane and milk there. Pepper, add salt and leave for 10 minutes, setting the mode "quenching" on the panel.
Ready soup in a plate can be decorated with greens. Although it will be very tasty without it.