The desire of every lady to be slim and light like a feather is quite understandable. And worthy of all praise and approval. Photos of half-naked graceful beauties looking with disgust from the pages of glossy magazines on women of Rubensian forms, lead the latter into a frenzy. Unable to bear such mockery of themselves, overweight ladies begin to eat baking soda with spoons, biting handfuls of activated charcoal. And as a reward for such zeal, they allow themselves, as a delicacy, to chew a salad leaf once a week, washed down with a “delicious” drink - a glass of water with a bag of citric acid dissolved in it. What do you think, after such a "diet" will increase the number of "slim women" in our streets? Of course not. The queue for a gastroenterologist will only increase in outpatient clinics. This is at least. I don’t even want to remember doctors of other specializations.
So how then to be? How to maintain health and acquire wasp waist? Eat right. Remember! Activated carbon is a drug, not food! And soda for our grandmothers helped very successfully cope with scum on enameled dishes. Or do you think your stomach is like the inside of a rusty teapot?
Lose weight wisely
Nutritionists do not tire of repeating the dangers of mono-diets. But how then to be, how can you diversify your diet, but at the same time achieve the desired result? There is a wonderful option: eat low-calorie soups for weight loss. There are many recipes for their preparation, including even with meat as the main ingredient. The taste is amazing, the benefits are colossal. Calories are a minimum. But it is they, these unfortunate calories, who are the culprits of the extra pounds. And to convince you of this, below we will talk about how to cook low-calorie soups (with calories, a description of the ingredients and the process itself).
Basic Rules
- Any low-calorie soup needs to be prepared only from fresh natural products. No cubes or semi-finished products!
- Salt in such a dish is put to a minimum. In no case can low-calorie soup be cooked for a long time, otherwise it will become tasteless, and it will be difficult to call it useful either.
- Cooked - ate. Low-calorie weight loss soups are not borsch or cabbage soup, which is even tastier the next day.
- Such dishes are prepared in accordance with the rules of separate nutrition.
This concludes the brief culinary educational program and proceed directly to the description of the preparation of these delicious dishes. From chicken, vegetables and mushrooms. And be sure to indicate their energy value.
Broths
Any low-calorie soup is necessarily prepared on a broth. The latter can be either vegetable or meat. A vegetable broth is prepared using edible scraps of all kinds of vegetables: stalks, green leaves, stems. Scraps need to be cleaned, washed, and then boiled over low heat. Strain, and then cook on it any low-calorie soup. As for the meat broth, here you can use any (but non-greasy, which is important) meat. It is sent to water, brought to a boil, everything is drained, the meat is carefully washed, poured with clean water and boiled.
Puree soup with potatoes and chives
First, try to cook a vegetable low-calorie soup. To do this, stock up on the following ingredients:
- potatoes (you need 6 pieces);
- celery - 2 stalks;
- water - ¼ cup;
- skim milk - 1 cup;
- salt - ¾ teaspoon;
- white pepper - ¾ teaspoon;
- green onions - 2 feathers.
Cooking process
Dice potatoes, slices - celery. Pour water into the pan, bring it to a boil, pour cooked vegetables. Cook for 15 minutes under a tightly closed lid over low heat. We take out the fourth part of the vegetables and put them on a separate plate. Pour the rest into a blender and mix. We return the resulting mixture to the pan, pour milk, add salt, white pepper, whole vegetables from the plate and finely chopped onions. Gently stir, bring to a boil. Pour on plates and, as agreed, immediately eat. One serving of such a soup contains only one hundred and five calories. Minuscule! But how useful. And the dish will taste better than soda.
Cold vegetable soup
In the summer I especially want to look slim and fit. But in the heat it is not always pleasant to eat hotter. Therefore, we offer a recipe for cold low-calorie soup. Just for the summer.
For its preparation we use:
- beets (400 g);
- unsweetened apples (80 g);
- cucumbers, naturally, fresh (140 g);
- two boiled chicken eggs;
- green onion (80 g);
- a slice of brown bread (50 g).
How to cook
First of all, boil the beets in the peel. Then it is cooled, cleaned, grated or finely chopped with cubes (this is optional). Pour boiling water, chopped bread there, put in the refrigerator for three hours. After filtering, and in the resulting infusion of beets add finely chopped other ingredients. Salt a little. Season with yogurt (low fat). At the exit, we get a delicious refrigerator, in which only one hundred and fifty calories.
Low Calorie Chicken Soup
It is quite clear that eating one grass is boring. And it’s not necessary. Low-calorie chicken soup is quite capable of satisfying the need of both the body and the soul for meat.
So, stock up:
- onions - you need one large onion;
- garlic - 2 or 3 cloves;
- chicken breast (without skin);
- celery - one stalk is enough;
- turnip - 1 pc. medium size;
- carrots - take two small pieces;
- zucchini - you need one small or two small ones;
- canned beans - you will need one jar;
- cabbage - take a small head of cabbage;
- salt - 2 teaspoons;
- black pepper - ¼ teaspoon.
Cooking technology
We deal with vegetables. Chop the onion, chop the garlic, chop the cabbage thinly. Zucchini and carrots are cut into slices, celery pieces, and turnip into small cubes. We process chicken meat as it was said above - we drain the first water. And then cook the breast with onions and garlic. Forty minutes to cook it is more than enough. Then we get the meat, cut into pieces. Filter the broth. Throw all our prepared vegetables into it, add beans (pour water from the jar). Salt, add the pepper. Cook for twenty-five minutes. Done. Add meat, stir, pour on plates and invite to the table all losing weight. Despite the satiety of such a soup, its calorie content is small - in one serving you can count only one hundred and eight calories. So eat tasty, lose weight with health benefits.
Alternative option
Great in taste and low-calorie mushroom soup. And also very full. A great option for those who do not eat meat. A great alternative to chicken soups. It is cooked and eaten quickly, the calorie content is minimal, the taste is amazing.
We stock up:
- onions - 1 pc.;
- unsalted butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- fresh mushrooms - 230 g;
- pearl barley - half a glass;
- skim milk - ¼ cup;
- flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Cooking
First you need to melt the butter at the bottom of the pan. Then add chopped mushrooms and onions. Stir constantly, cook for five minutes. Then add pre-cooked vegetable broth (four glasses), cereals. Boil, remove the foam, salt and pepper and cook for about thirty minutes over low heat. Mix flour and milk until homogeneous, pour into a pan and cook for another ten minutes. You will get a hearty and tasty soup with calories of 155 calories.
There are a great many recipes for the preparation of such weight loss soups. In addition, you can dream up yourself, relying on the basic principles of their preparation.