“Undeservedly forgotten ...” - this is often said about turnips. Since ancient times, our ancestors successfully and universally used this product for cooking stews and salads, baking and cereals, turnips were steamed, fried and cooked, they made turnip soup. Recipes passed from generation to generation, from grandmother to granddaughter. Turnip is great for stuffing meat. Our ancestors actively used it, filling ducks and geese.
The benefits of turnips
Today, not every housewife has in her home cookbook a recipe for vegetable soup with turnips. In vain! This product is incredibly useful, has a high content of vitamins and minerals. Did you know that this vegetable contains more vitamin C than kiwi, lemon or overseas oranges. Turnip perfectly heals wounds on the gums, teeth stop sore, and gums bleed.
Turnip soup, the recipe of which we will offer today for consideration, is an incredible remedy for fighting colds and sore throats. Doctors even recommend turnips to eat with cough, bronchitis and during seasonal flu. Juice, broth and turnip soup is an excellent sedative, which few people know about. Even small children are given dishes with this vegetable, so that their sleep is stronger and more serene.
A recipe for turnip soup without potatoes, by the way, should be written down for those who are overweight or who adhere to proper nutrition. In a product for one hundred grams - only about 28 kilocalories. From turnips, you can even make diet chips that give kids who are overweight.
Green pea and turnip soup
This recipe came to Russia from France and was safely recorded in almost every cookbook. The dish turns out quite rich in taste, since beef fatty broth is used for cooking. If you do not accept this option, then you can replace it with chicken. In this case, the soup will turn out to be lighter and more dietary.
List of Essential Ingredients
- 460 ml of beef broth;
- 270 g of green peas (can be frozen);
- 310 g turnip;
- 1 slice of white or Borodino bread (for an amateur);
- a pinch of sugar;
- 20 g butter;
- salt.
How to cook a dish
While the ingredients are cooked, place the beef bones on the broth. The recipe for turnip soup is also good because here you can do several culinary actions at the same time, which significantly saves the precious time of the hostess. While the beef broth will be prepared, we are engaged in cutting turnips. The vegetable must be washed, peeled and cut into small cubes.
Put butter in a pan and fry slices of turnip on it. Gradually add sugar to the vegetable. After ten minutes, put the fried turnips on a plate. Let's take the broth. It is important to remember that any recipe for turnip soup requires that this part of the dish be transparent and brightened. Therefore, do not forget to remove the foam during cooking, add green celery pieces and bay leaf (all these products help to make the broth brighter). After cooking, strain the broth, and only then send it back to the fire, only with the addition of fried turnip cubes.
While the turnip will be boiled, we will take up bread. Cut a piece of white or Borodino into small cubes. We lay them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or food foil. Send the bread cubes to the oven for 5 minutes. The temperature should not be higher than 150 degrees. Croutons can also be cooked in the microwave or just fry the bread cubes in a skillet. The choice is the hostess.
Scald peas with boiling water. We fill it in soup. Cook for a few more minutes and turn it off. The main thing is that the peas do not boil, but remain elastic. Add the dried croutons. This recipe (turnip in soup instead of potatoes) is perfect for a diet. It contains no harmful foods, high-calorie or fatty. Only good and nothing but.
Turnip Chicken Soup for Kids
To make such a first course even more useful, we recommend that you turn your attention to recipes for soup for children. Turnip plays the most important role here. Yes, and preparing such dishes is very easy. Even a novice hostess or a young mother will be able to prepare for her child a healthy and tasty vitamin soup with turnips.
What is required
- 180 g turnip;
- 220 g chicken;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 small onion;
- dill;
- Bay leaf;
- salt;
- parsley.
Cooking
Chicken fillet is washed under running water, cut into cubes and boiled in salted water with the addition of bay leaves and peppercorns. It turns out tasty, but not fatty chicken stock. Turnip in this recipe is not fried (we will not add extra fat and calories to children). It just needs to be peeled, cut into long slices and placed in a container where the chicken is already cooked.
Carrots and onions are peeled, cut into small cubes and also added to the soup. If you wish, you can make a classic frying for soups, but this is an optional step in the preparation of this dish. When all the ingredients are collected in a pan together, cook them for about ten minutes. Turn off. Let the dish cool slightly. Add a lot of fresh dill or parsley.
Mashed soup
Some children do not want to eat regular soups, so mothers have to contrive to feed their child with a first course. Recipes for mashed soups come to the aid here, which are eaten much faster by small capricious gourmets. Turnip soup is no exception. And it cooks very quickly and does not require special culinary skills.
Products
- 160 g turnip;
- 120 g carrots;
- salt;
- green onion;
- 80 g of rice;
- 140 g of green peas;
- 40 g butter;
- 160 ml of milk or cream;
- ground pepper.
How to cook
Turnip is cooked here for the longest time, so it is the first to do it. We clean the root crop from the skin, cut it into small cubes and send it to cook. We put the rice at the same stage. We make frying for soups from carrots and onions in butter. Then add it to the turnip and cook together for another five minutes. Green peas are added right before the end of cooking. Solim. Add ground black pepper (a little if the soup is prepared for the child). Pour milk and turn off the gas under the soup pan.
Now it's time to “arm” with a blender and make a delicious cream soup out of ordinary soup. Puree soup made from turnips and green peas is decorated with fresh parsley, basil or cilantro.
Reviews
If we talk about the opinions of housewives regarding recipes for turnip soups, then all of them will be extremely positive. The dish is prepared quickly - this is a plus, it contains vitamins and is beneficial - this is another point in the piggy bank of merits. And the cooking time is minimal, which also can not but rejoice.