Zucchini - a subspecies of pumpkin, a widespread melon culture. The pulp of young zucchini is tender, this product is low-calorie, easily digestible and contains many useful substances, so zucchini can be added to the children's and diet menus. From zucchini and zucchini you can prepare a variety of useful and delicious dishes, including soups.
Delicate dietary cream soup from zucchini
This is a low-calorie, but very satisfying dish. Cook soup - simple and quick.
Ingredients:
- young zucchini medium size - 1 pc .;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- celery - 2-3 stems;
- sour cream is thick - 100 ml;
- broth or water - 0,6-1 l;
- ghee - 1-2 tablespoons. spoons;
- green parsley - 0.5 beam;
- dill greens - 0.5 beam;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- salt;
- black pepper powder.
Preparation
Chop onion and save in a saucepan in oil until light changes the hue. Zucchini cut into small cubes, and peeled carrots - a short thin straw. Stems of celery, other greens and garlic chopped finely.
Add the chopped squash and carrots to the saucepan and fill it with broth or water. Cook the soup on low heat for about 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and add greens and garlic. Pepper and salted. The finished soup is processed in a blender until uniform. Add sour cream and mix. Before serving, we will decorate with greens.
Fat-burning soup
You can cook a dietary "fat burning" vegetable soup with zucchini - its recipe is also quite simple.
Ingredients:
- young zucchini medium size - 1 pc .;
- broccoli -200 g;
- celery - 2 stems;
- green parsley - 0.5 beam;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- Leek - 1 stem;
- tomato paste without preservatives - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- broth or water - 0,6-1 l;
- pepper spicy red - to taste.
Preparation
We cut the courgette into small cubes, divide the broccoli into kitties. Boil it all in broth or water for 8 minutes. Greens, stalks of celery and garlic are lightly crushed. All this and the soup is processed in a blender until homogeneity. Add the tomato and season with hot pepper. Thoroughly mix and spill over the soup cups. Let's cut the leeks into thin rings and put a little in each cup. You can add a spoonful of sour cream or a thick unsweetened live yogurt. Just a dream of a nutritionist.
Chicken soup with zucchini in Asian style
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 200-300 g;
- young zucchini medium size - 1 pc .;
- young green beans - 100 g;
- Leek - 1 stem;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc .;
- broth or water - 0,8-1 l;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- pepper spicy red - to taste;
- spices for the preparation of broth (bay leaf, pepper-peas, cloves) - to taste;
- different greens (parsley, coriander) - ½ beam;
- soy sauce - 1-2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Chicken fillet is cut into short thin strips and welded in about 1 liter of water (with spices) until almost ready. Zucchini and sweet peppers are chopped with short straws, we cut the leeks in circles. We divide the young beans - each pod - into 3-4 parts. Add the vegetables to the pan, where the meat is cooked in the broth. Cook in minutes 5-8. Immediately before serving, season the soup with chopped herbs, garlic, hot pepper and soy sauce. In this soup of courgettes you can add and young potatoes - 2-3 pcs.
Soup of pumpkin and zucchini with young veal and light table wine
Ingredients:
- veal (tenderloin) - 300 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- pulp of pumpkin muscat - 100 g;
- zucchini young - 1 pc .;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc .;
- red lentils - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 4-5 tablespoons;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- light table wine (white or pink) - 200 ml;
- dry spices - to taste;
- greens (parsley, coriander);
- salt.
Preparation
Veal will be cut into thin, short strips (with this approach, the meat will be cooked quickly - for half an hour), and onions - a thin short straw. Save the onion in the saucepan until the color changes. Add the meat, lightly fry everything, slightly add and pour the wine, cover it with a lid and extinguish until almost ready, if necessary pouring water. Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables. We will cut a pumpkin, zucchini and pepper with straws. For 10 minutes and readiness of meat, we add vegetables and washed lentils to the saucepan, mix and cook all together for about 5 minutes. Add water and cook for another 3-4 minutes. We pour out on plates and season with spices, garlic and greens.
If you need recipes for other useful and tasty soups, here they are: spinach soup, broccoli soup .