Soups are the basis of diet food. Liquid hot food perfectly saturates and does not create an additional burden on the digestive tract. Vitamins and minerals, as well as nutrients from the broth are absorbed much easier and faster. Therefore, dietary soups invariably include in the treatment regimen for gastrointestinal diseases, they are indispensable in the recovery period of postoperative patients. Widely used soup and for weight loss. Today we look at the most popular recipes that you can use in your kitchen every day.
Basic cooking rules
There are several recommendations of nutritionists that will allow you to cook the most healthy dish that can fulfill the functions assigned to them.
- Only prepare your own diet soup. The basis of the dish should be fresh and healthy products. That is, you have to abandon the bouillon cubes, semi-finished products, smoked meats.
- Combine the ingredients correctly. Specialists in the field of dietetics and healthy nutrition say that if several healthy products are included in one dish, the result will be completely different. One diet soup should not combine fish and egg, fatty meat and cereals.
- Add a minimum amount of salt and use a minimum amount of spices.
- Cooking time. Many people like very boiled soups. This is actually wrong. In the process of cooking, they lose their pleasant taste and a lot of vitamins. The highest value for the body will be those that do not cook for long. Once the ingredients become chewable, the soup needs to be turned off.
- Cook for one day. Diet soup just prepared is a source of vitamins and nutrients. But on the second day, most of them are already lost. Only empty calories remain.
The best recipes
There are a lot of them. There are special diets that involve eating soup prepared according to one of the recipes. In some cases, you can supplement the diet with boiled meat, vegetables and fruits. The most useful is oatmeal soup. It has a beneficial effect on the digestive tract and normalizes metabolism. In addition, it is a very delicious diet soup. Of course, if you do not like oatmeal, such a dish may seem like a punishment, but on the other hand, it is important for health.
Consider two cooking options so that you have the opportunity to diversify your diet.
- Soup with oatmeal and egg. You will need vegetable or non-fat chicken broth. Add oatmeal to it at the rate of a quarter cup per liter of water. Straws carrots, parsley and celery, leek chop rings. When all the ingredients are ready, enter the beaten egg.
- Cream soup with oatmeal and broccoli. This is not even soup, but a real medicine for a sick stomach, whether it is gastritis or an ulcer. The ingredients do not cause bloating or heartburn, do not irritate the most sensitive mucosa. Soup is nutritious and nutritious, but it contains few calories. The cooking method is not much different from the previous version. In 1.5 l of water, boil carrots and parsley root, celery and leek, 300 g of white cabbage. When the vegetables are soft, you need to add 500 g of broccoli and pour oatmeal. After cooking, it remains to grind everything in a blender and add butter to taste. Serve with crackers and herbs. The recipe for diet puree soup should be noted by mothers: it will diversify baby food.
Veal and Vegetable Recipe
A great option for cooking in a slow cooker. Moreover, the process itself does not take much time. First of all, fill in 400 g of lean beef with two liters of water and put on the stew for an hour. We filter the broth and set aside.
- Put chopped onions and grated carrots in an empty crock-pot. After five minutes, add 100 g of green peas.
- Add the broth and meat to the stewed vegetables. Put 2 chopped potatoes and one chopped zucchini. Set to “Soup” mode for 30 minutes.
- 10 minutes before cooking, add 100 ml of tomato juice.
This dish will delight you with a bright taste. It perfectly satisfies hunger, and is liked by both adults and children. 100 g of soup contains only 38 kcal. This is a wonderful diet soup for weight loss.
Magnificent cabbage soup
This recipe is successfully used during a diet, as the dish helps to satisfy hunger and not to experience any particular inconvenience. Low calorie content at the same time makes it possible to gradually lose weight. In just 30 minutes you get diet chicken soup. One and a half liters of broth will need to be cooked in advance.
- Stew one carrot and one onion in oil.
- Grate 200 g of petiole celery.
- In a boiling broth, lay 200 g of red cabbage.
- Potatoes (4 pcs.) Cut into cubes and lower into the broth.
- Finely chop 100 g of sea kale and dip in the broth too.
- Cook for 20 minutes, add turmeric and your favorite spices.
Ready-made cabbage soup is best eaten with yogurt and whole grain bread. The calorie content of one portion is 32 kcal.
Dietary Bean Soup
Legumes must be eaten, because they contain a large amount of protein and other beneficial substances. This is even more true if you are on a diet. Beans, beans and chickpeas provide the body with protein reserves without a single drop of fat. Nutritionists recommend replacing legumes with high carbohydrate content. From beans, you can make a wonderful diet puree soup.
I would like to immediately give housewives advice. It is best to use a bean mixture. That is, take a little red and white, purple and beige. Then the dish will be not only delicious, but also very elegant. Beans must be soaked overnight before use.
- At 2.5 liters of water you will need to take a glass of beans. Put on the stove and cook for at least an hour.
- At this time, you need to cut onion in half rings and carrot slices. We will not fry them in this recipe. Just put the vegetables in the water when the beans are ready.
- Add 2 chopped potatoes.
- Add a few tablespoons of olive oil directly to the broth.
- And the last moment: the finished soup needs to be decorated with greens. Let the soup boil with her for a few minutes. But fresh herbs without heat treatment, you can decorate the soup only in plates.
Diet Chicken Soup
And we continue to review our selection of recipes. Simple diet soups are an ideal daily healthy lunch. Creamy chicken soup is cooked with cream cheese. This gives the dish a special twist. Moreover, calories do not exceed 52 kcal per serving.
To get a saturated and satisfying soup, you need to take 1 kg of chicken breast per 1.5 liters of water. Lay carrots and onions whole. Boil for 40 minutes, then remove and cool a little. Cut vegetables and meat into pieces and chop in a blender. Grate the cream cheese separately. Put the pan on the fire, spread the puree with broth and add cheese. Cook until complete dissolution of the cheese.
Turkey soup with green peas
Recipes for dietary soups should take their rightful place in your cookbook. It is simple and cheap, healthy and very tasty. For the next recipe, you will need to take a kilogram of turkey and boil it in 3 liters of water. The primary broth is recommended to be drained and cooked on the second.
30 minutes after boiling, add the onion, allspice, bay leaf and a teaspoon of salt. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. After that, add 4 potatoes and carrots, cut into cubes. Bring to a boil and add 1/2 cans of green peas. Salt and can be served. Turkey soup is great for baby and diet food. The meat of this bird is very rich in trace elements and iron.
Meatball Soup
First courses are usually not particularly liked by children. But this is only a matter of mother’s skill, or rather, her ability to choose a recipe. Dietary soups can be very tasty. And the most versatile option is meatball soup. Light, fragrant and rich, even the most capricious and demanding little ones will like it.
Meatballs are minced balls. Usually they do not exceed the size of a walnut. They are boiled in boiling water, in which you can add potatoes and carrots, cauliflower or broccoli. The dish is very light, but it has high nutritional value. It is recommended to include it in the menu for stomach disease, it is good for baby food. The only advice: meat for meatballs you need to twist yourself, and not buy ready-made meat in the market.
The photo of the diet soup demonstrates that it is also very appetizing. Add half an egg or greens - it turns out a very elegant dish.
- Pour 3 liters of water into the pan, add onion, peppercorns, bay leaf and put on fire.
- While the water is warming, you need to cook meatballs. To do this, peel another onion, chop some greens and add 300 g of minced meat. Cut into slices 2 potatoes and 1 carrot, sort out 0.5 heads of cauliflower for inflorescences. One bell pepper cut into rings.
- Dip the vegetables into the water and start forming balls of minced meat.
- After about 10 minutes, you can lower the meatballs into the broth.
- Boil another 15 minutes, then turn off the heat. Ready soup needs to be decorated with greens.
Celery Soup
Not everyone loves this wonderful vegetable. But I must admit that it helps a lot in matters of weight loss. The recipe for dietary vegetable soup is worth taking note of for those who plan to seriously engage in the state of their figure. This soup has miraculous properties. Using it for seven days, you can throw from 7 to 12 kg.
To cook this soup, you do not need to have special knowledge or skills. You only need a standard set of vegetables that are in any supermarket:
- celery - 200 g;
- carrots - 6 pcs.;
- tomatoes - 6 pcs.;
- onion - 4 pcs.;
- bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
- a small head of cabbage;
- greenery.
It is very convenient to cook it in a slow cooker. But if there is none, it does not matter - on the stove he cooks even faster. Cut all the vegetables and pour in tomato juice or plain water. Put on fire and simmer vegetables until soft. Reduce heat and simmer for another 10 minutes. You can add more herbs and spices to make the soup more vibrant.
Sorrel and Egg Soup
It is best obtained on lean meat broth. It will take 3 liters. Famous and beloved sorrel dish will be appreciated by lovers of summer dishes. Sorrel soup is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially potassium, calcium and magnesium. For the specified amount of broth, you will need one little carrot and onion, a bunch of sorrel and a few eggs.
Carrots need to be cut into cubes and put in the finished broth. In a second step, chop the onion, put in the pan and boil for 20 minutes. Now you can drop the leaves of sorrel. It takes only 5 minutes to hold it on fire, after which you can season with herbs and clean. Boil the eggs separately until tender. Pour soup into plates and add to each half-sliced egg. It turns out a bright and elegant dish.
Original cream soup
The combination of ingredients is somewhat unexpected, but still very successful. These are mushrooms and potatoes, pumpkin and soy cheese. Let's look at what to do with these products to make a tasty and healthy dish.
- Sliced pumpkin (100 g) must be stewed with the addition of water until it begins to pierce freely with a fork.
- Mash it and add 50 g of tomatoes or a spoonful of tomato paste.
- Boil chopped onion and 1 potato until cooked.
- Cut 4 champignons and boil for 5 minutes.
- Combine with pumpkin puree.
- Put greens and a spoonful of vegetable oil.
In a saucepan with prepared soup, add 70 g of tofu, chopped in random order. Lovers add ginger to it.
Italian soup
During the diet, flour products and pasta in the diet are greatly limited. Therefore, dietary soups (photos and recipes of some of them are presented in the article) usually include vegetables, less often cereals. And almost never - vermicelli. This soup is an exception. If you miss pasta, then this is the recipe that you will like.
- Cut into strips 1 carrot, shoot of leek and petiolet of celery. Chop 50 g of white cabbage.
- Boil 4 cups of vegetable stock. Add vegetables and boil for 6 minutes.
- Add a glass of boiled or canned beans, a small amount of curly vermicelli.
- Cook for 20-30 minutes until all the ingredients are soft.
- Add bay leaf and spices.
Now you can turn it off and decorate with chopped greens.
Instead of a conclusion
If you want to get rid of extra pounds, then soups will be the perfect dish for a diet. Light, tasty and inexpensive, absolutely everyone likes them. A large portion of the soup contains only 30-50 kcal, but it allows you to thoroughly have a bite. Hot broth saturates and allows you to enjoy the meal. Many note that a tiny portion of porridge or green salad on a diet upset them much more than a plate of fragrant soup.
You can supplement the diet with separately cooked meat, vegetables and fruits. Remember that you should not get involved in potatoes and bananas. In addition to the soup, you can take some crackers or bread.