Nice healthy soup recipes please.

[Kayzr]

Does anyone have any nice but healthy soup recipes please? I'm dieting and I'm finding myself eating the same WW soup for lunch everyday and I am slightly bored now.

Thanks.

Good Morning Kayzr,

I have been using a site called MyDish and they have great healthy soup recipes as well as thousands of other recipes.

www.mydish.co.uk/recipes/meals-and-courses/soup-recipes

Hope this helps,

Let me know if you find anything and how it turned out.

Take care x

Lots of tomatoes, a couple of red peppers and large red onion. Half the tomatoes, cut peppers and onions into large chunks. Roast on baking tray with a little olive oil and a clove of garlic for 20-30 mins (depends on size of chunks).

When cooled blend with a little vegetable stock, pass through a sieve and add more veg stock to get to the thickness you like, and heat. Absolutely delicious and has virtually no calories. And it's really quick to make.

I sometimes put pasta in it (don't precook, just cook it in the soup as it's heating). That makes it really filling.

I make the following, no idea how healthy it is but is gorgeous.

1 Butternut squash
1 Sweet potato
1 medium potato
2 onions
5 carrots

Cut all of the above up and put them in a large sausepan with some butter, stir occasionally for five mins.

Make two litres of vegetable stock and pour over veg, allow to simmer until vegetables are soft enough to blend. Lightly season.

That sounds lovely Claire! Going to give that a try myself.

Jamie Olivers Minestrone soup is lush and with a little parmesan grated into it and a nice baguette a really filling meal even for those with a huge appetite.

Waitrose also do a wonderful Brocolli and Stilton Soup Recipe here - not that healthy but we all need a treat sometimes!

I have a lovely watercress soup recipe (I went 'urrgghh' at the thought of it, but is actually really nice!!)

All you need is an onion, potatoes, stock, a bag of watercress and a bit of black pepper if you like it. (I don't have actual quantities for the ingredients, just usually chuck in what I have and hope for the best!!)

So...

Fry off an onion in a little olive oil, add around 6 or 7 potatoes, peeled and chopped and then add the stock and simmer until the potatoes are cooked. Next add the bag of watercress and cook for just a couple of minutes to wilt the spinach. Take off the heat, put in a blender (or use one of those hand held thingies - that's a technical term, you know!!) until it is nice and smooth, then just pop back on the heat when you want to serve it and add the seasoning to taste. You can add less potatoes if you don't like it so think, or more stock etc to get it to the desired consistency. Freezes well and I always make a big batch with the intention of freezing half, but always end up eating the lot!!

I've never had watercress despite the fact it grows but the bucket load where I live.

I will give all these recipes a go. Invisible that soup sounds lovely.

soften some onion in fry light, add a chopped red pepper to soften, add stock and a drained tin of sweetcorn - simmer for 5 minutes then blend - is lovely and creamy. I also add cumin and some red chilli for a zing which is good.

this beef leek and lentil soup is a winner

5 Carrots
1 Leek
2 medium Onions
3 Parsnips
2 medium Potatoes

2 low salt Vegetable cubes dissolved into 1.5 litres of water

1.5 tbsp English Mustard
2 tbsp of Tomato purée
Herbs; Sage, Parsley,Oregano,Rosemary, 3 tsp of all in total
0.5 tsp Ground Cumin
Season to taste

Can either leave it chunky but it tastes a lot nicer blended! Makes 5-6 very generous servings (freeze the rest). Lovely soup, add a bit more pepper than usual for a nice kick and warm up

Made this today. Very nice.

1 medium butternut squash, cut into large chunks.
2 large carrots, chopped.
1 onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves
ground cumin
pepper
olive oil
500 ml veg stock
2 bayleaves

put squash, carrots and onion into roasting pan. mix with cumin and olive oil. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 mins.

Add to saucepan with stock and bayleaves. Bring to boil then simmer for approx 20 min til veg soft. Blend.

Serve with crusty bread and nice with sour cream.

Thanks, I will write them all down.

Take a look at the soup recipes on MN HERE.

I tried a split yellow pea soup from the MN recipes this week and it was nice and spicy

Although soups (without the warm bread on the side) are great in diets as they fill you up, most recipes are loaded with carbs (basically all root veg - potato, carrots, squash etc...)

I usually go for green veg, to which you can add tofu to make them creamier and protein rich.
the basis is always green veg boiled with onion and a potato then you drain, and blend with tofu before seasoning.

_ courgette with mint

• broccoli with pepper

-apargus

• spinach or kale and garlic

Beans and pulse are fantastic to fill you up and make tasty hearthy soup based meals.
minestrone is great with beans instead of macaroni. You can make a mexican version ( add cumin/chili and lime juice instead of oily pesto)

fresh tomato gazpacho with lots of finely diced crunchy bits is quite satisfying too.

Brockleybelle, tried your recipe this afternoon and it's really good!

Thanks

I love spinach soup. A big bag or two of spinach, a big diced potato to thicken it up, stock, onion, nutmeg. Blend it. Bright greem and beautiful.

I make a really nice vegetable soup, minstrone soup and I've done a nice tomato soup as well but that is more fiddly as you strain it. The kids love them and so does everyone that's had them so far I know the first two if you want them, the other would take a little finding hehe.

Thanks everyone.

Jodie, could I have the first 2 please? Not overly keen on tomato soup.

Ok the veg soup; I make a huge pot of it but you can make less if you need to.

Fry a medium onion (chopped small), in butter (or olive oil, fry light etc) until soft 10-15 mins on a low heat

Add 3 gloves of crushed garlic

Add chopped carrot (I use about 5 large ones), finely chopped celery (1 or 2 stalks) and chopped leek (1 large, sliced) and fry for about 20 mins until soft

Add chopped potatoes (I use around 8 chopped into small chunks) and cook for about 5 mins more

Add vegetable stock (I make enough to fill up the pot) and season. Cook until all the vegetables are done. I serve with fresh bread. You can reheat this the next day or two if you want too.

Just about to type up the other one.

Two nice ones that I make are:

Lentil and coconut milk (use a low fat coconut milk)

Vegetable and barley

Minestrone I start with the same basic as the veg soup

Fry an onion, then garlic, chopped carrot, celery, potato as above. Then add some tomato puree and add either a tin of chopped tomatoes or passata (I use passata), and simmer until reduced a little (about 10 mins), season with salt and pepper.

Add enough stock to fill the pot, bring to the boil and then simmer until vegetables are almost cooked.

Add small pasta or spaghetti broken in pieces and cook until done.

You can cook the pasta in a separate pot and add to the bowl individually (I usually do this) but that's up to you Grate some cheese into each bowl and serve with bread and it's lovely

Beetroot soup

3-4 beets grated
1 clove garlic
1 -2 onions
Fat free yoghurt
fresh dill

Grate beets. Chop onions and cook with beets in about 1 tablespoon olive oil. Simmer with about 3 - 4 cups of veg stock for about 20 - 30 minutes. Puree with hand blender. Chop up a few sprigs of fresh dill and serve with a spoon of fat free plain yoghurt.