Tasty and hearty soup is the key to proper nutrition. But often we get used to cooking the same thing, and so we focus on a couple of dishes that work best. That is why many people think that the best soup is borsch or cabbage soup. And try to include cheese soup in your menu. Its calorie content can vary from 60 to 200 calories per 100 grams, depending on the ingredients used.
What do you need?
For the basic recipe, you need to prepare one chicken breast fillet, carrots, five potatoes, one cream cheese, olive oil, bay leaf and spices to taste. Of course, water is needed. Sometimes greens are added. At first glance, the products are ordinary, but as a result, an extraordinary and interesting dish is obtained on their basis.
It takes a little time to prepare, fragrant and hearty soup will appeal to all members of your family. By the way, in the cold season, he also warms, and in the summer does not create heaviness in the stomach.
In this recipe, the cheese calorie soup is very small, while using products that are found in almost any refrigerator. An exception would be olive oil, which is still expensive. If desired, it can be replaced with ordinary sunflower, but only refined. With it, cheese soup will not increase its calorie content, but financial costs will decrease.
Start cooking
What do we want to get as a result? Light, but satisfying soup with a bright rich taste. For greater beauty, you can make mashed soup. So, prepare the ingredients. To do this, peel the vegetables and cut them into cubes. Cut the chicken fillet into portioned slices and fry for 5-7 minutes. In the meantime, you need to draw water into the pan, send vegetables there and boil for a quarter of an hour. Later add fried fillet, bay leaf and spices to vegetables. 5 minutes before the readiness to send the processed cheese, broken into pieces, into the pan. The calorie content of cheese soup with chicken depends on the type of cheese or cheese product used and its fat content. On an average pan with a volume of 3 liters you need 2-3 grams of cheese. You can stir immediately or wait until the cheese has completely dissolved. Ready soup has a delicate cream color with bright specks of carrots and herbs.
With nuances
The basic cheese calorie soup is optimal even for a diet menu, but there is a whole kaleidoscope of recipes that are much harder in terms of nutrition.
First of all, you can diversify the menu with soup puree. The basic recipe is not necessary to change, but before adding cheese, the vegetables with meat must be beaten with a blender. Already in the soup puree are added cheese, herbs and garlic crackers. The calorie content of such a dish grows to 75 calories per 100 grams.
But the variation of chicken soup with cheese rolls can be a festive dish. Cooking is also simple, but the result is very tasty and beautiful. In addition to the basic ingredients, you will need flour or starch, an egg and chicken stock instead of meat. Bring the broth to a boil and cover the chopped potatoes, carrots and fried onions. Vegetables will be cooked, but for now it's time to cook cheese rolls. To do this, beat the egg with salt, add flour. Roll out the dough and form a roll, fill it with cream cheese. Send cheese rolls to soup and let it boil. How much will such cheese soup with cream cheese “pull”? Calorie soup can grow up to 82-96 calories per 100 grams. This is a delicious dish with a rich aroma and golden color.