We kill two birds with one stone - fast and lose weight at the same time. In this article we will talk about how to prepare Lenten soup, which is suitable not only for Lent. Rather, these will be dietary recipes for healthy soups for weight loss. But at the same time, such broths can also be called lean, since fatty meat will not be present in their preparation. Only some recipes contain dietary poultry fillet for broth.
If we talk about food on the eve of Easter, then it is assumed to eat food without meat, fish, or dairy products. Such recipes for Lenten soup will be here, and you can safely take note of them for those who observe fasting according to all the rules.
Also, if you are watching your weight and figure, you can pay attention to the article “Ginger tea for weight loss,” published earlier. And now, eight recipes for delicious soup for weight loss and some for fasting.
In the article you will find:
- Lenten pea soup puree.
- Fat burning spinach soup for weight loss.
- Lenten mushroom soup with vegetables and buckwheat.
- Delicious bean soup with pumpkin and turkey for weight loss.
- Dietary corn soup with ham and chicken.
- Dietary fish soup with celery.
- Cold beet soup with kefir for losing weight.
- Healthy dietary soup in a slow cooker.
Magic stem
The recipe for dietary celery soup for weight loss is approved by nutritionists all over the world. To prepare it, chop 500 g of white cabbage, finely chop 400 g of celery stalks, 2 sweet peppers and 3 tomatoes. Place this vegetable mixture in a saucepan with 3 liters of boiling water. For a richer taste, you can use vegetable or chicken broth. Bring the soup to a boil and cook for 10–15 minutes, adding a pinch of salt and pepper at the end. In some versions, the diet soup recipe is supplemented with carrots, green peas and fresh herbs - it only benefits from this.
Broths for first courses
Soups made with broth have more calories than soups made with water. But you can also use chef’s secrets for broths, so that the taste is familiar and the diet is added.
If you additionally begin to reduce the amount of salt in your food, then the result in the form of a reduction in waist circumference is guaranteed. If it’s still difficult, then cook the broth without salt, and then add soy sauce to the plate.
Drinking a mug of hot, delicious broth is a good habit. The stomach is no longer empty, and calories are at a minimum.
This way, without unhealthy snacks, you can deceive the body for another couple of hours before a full meal. Although, of course, the question is, is it useful?
Chicken bouillon
The most dietary broth, rightfully, is chicken broth. It is given to those recovering after surgery or a protracted illness.
When the chicken is lean or the broth is cooked without the skin with subcutaneous fat, it makes an excellent basis for a low-calorie first course.
Broth made from quail or turkey without skin will be leaner. Boiled chicken can be used for salads or added in portions to soup.
Meat broth
If you are going to use meat broth for low-calorie soups, you need to use only lean meat. For example, veal or rabbit meat is suitable.
Broth made from pork or fatty beef is not suitable for light first courses. You can use bone broth; it will further strengthen the ligaments, as it contains a lot of gelatin.
Lean meat is also added to plates in portions. But there is no need to add sour cream to the meat.
Fish broth
It is advisable to cook fish broth from lean sea or river fish. Fatty varieties of sea fish, such as salmon, chum salmon, sturgeon, will give you a very rich broth.
You won’t get a diet soup from such a broth. Be sure to strain the fish broth through double gauze or a sieve so that small bones do not end up in the finished dish.
Be sure to remove the bones from the boiled fish from the broth. Only after this can it be put into the soup: either in a saucepan, or in portions on each plate.
Never cook fish soup using canned fish. Canned food is a ready-to-eat final product, often of questionable quality. Additional cooking will not benefit your food.
As for fish, in the healthy nutrition information environment, there is now a debate about whether it can be used as food at all. Due to the fact that most fish are carriers of worms and even heat treatment does not kill their eggs.
I will not go into details now, this is a separate topic for another article. Let me just say that many people give up fish and seafood.
As a result, for all the basics of first courses, I would like to note: if, nevertheless, the broth turns out to be fatty, then after cooking, carefully skim off the fat from the surface of the liquid with a spoon or ladle.
You won't need it. This way you will reduce the calorie content of any broth: chicken, meat or fish. Based on these broths, you can cook low-calorie soups.
Vegetable double
Dietary vegetable soup with zucchini and potatoes is well balanced in composition, because it contains both carbohydrates and fiber. We grate the carrots and onions and fry them. Cut a large zucchini and 2 potatoes into cubes, pour them into a saucepan, add a glass of hot water and start cooking. When the potatoes soften, add the carrots and onions, boil for 2 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste. Let the finished soup cool slightly and beat it with a blender into a homogeneous mass. This simple diet soup for weight loss can also be given to children. Just first pour half a glass of warm milk into it and simmer for a short time.
Adviсe
These recommendations will help you properly prepare low-calorie soups for weight loss:
- Dishes should be prepared one time at a time; heated soup loses a lot of nutrients.
- Avoid potatoes, pasta and cereals.
- Never use pork or beef to make light diet soup. Only chicken breast or veal with a minimum of fat.
- Rabbit meat is well absorbed by the body and has few calories. The soup it makes is light and flavorful.
- For soups, you can use almost everything you have in the refrigerator: cabbage, carrots, pumpkin, celery, peppers, tomatoes, asparagus, zucchini.
Sun for lunch
Pumpkin is a seasonal vegetable. And now it is richer in valuable elements than ever. That’s why the recipe for dietary pumpkin soup is doubly healthy. Fry 6-8 chopped garlic cloves in a saucepan. Add 3-4 chopped celery stalks, an onion and ½ fennel root. Cut 2 kg of pumpkin pulp into cubes, remove the skin from a large tomato and also cut it into cubes. Place the pumpkin and tomato in a saucepan, add a glass of water, simmer the vegetable mixture until tender and puree with a blender. Decorate the bowl of soup with roasted pumpkin seeds and basil. By the way, for pancreatitis, dietary soups with pumpkin are one of the best dishes.
Reviews
The described recipes for soups for weight loss have a lot of reviews, some of which are presented below.
Anna: I lost 12 kg in six months, while I broke down a couple of times and overate myself with borscht and cabbage soup, but when I saw myself in the mirror, I bitterly regretted it. But I was desperately missing delicious liquid meals! When I discovered dietary recipes for first courses, things began to improve. In general, I love hot, hearty food, and with chicken and mushrooms the soup turns out very well. I only used turkey breast and sometimes turkey fillet. Instead of bread, I ate dry bread.
Daria: I’ve always been slim, but after I started working in an office and snacking on buns, I gained weight dramatically. I lost weight from 68 to 59 kg thanks to soups! I cooked it from everything non-caloric that was in the refrigerator. I bought chicken breasts, peeled the skin, cut off the fillets and baked them in the oven to take to work. And for dinner I ate dietary first courses for weight loss - soups with pumpkin, mushrooms, zucchini, celery. Well, I forgot about the buns, of course. Now I'm proud of my figure again!
Mila: I like seafood soup – it’s tasty and healthy. I adhere to a healthy lifestyle and try to eat only healthy and fresh foods. Shrimp and squid are great for soup.
Karina: I liked fat-burning soups. But, of course, you won’t lose weight without exercise.
Important! Studies have shown that those who eat liquid meals consume fewer calories, because soups fill the stomach better and make you feel full faster.
Cheese and cabbage languor
Dietary cauliflower puree soup is a delicious way to please yourself for those who are constantly losing weight. We separate 500 g of cauliflower into inflorescences and boil them in salted water for 6–8 minutes. Then beat the cabbage with a blender, add 250 ml of chicken broth, 120 g of grated cheddar cheese, salt and spices to taste. Instead of cheddar, you can use processed cheese. Place the soup over low heat and stir to melt the cheese. Pour in 100 ml of warm skim milk and bring the soup to a boil. The calorie content of dietary cheese soup is only 120–140 kcal, so it is quite possible to serve it with rye croutons or dried bread.
What are fat-burning soups for weight loss?
The invention of first courses, in which about 50% is liquid, is attributed to French chefs. However, in fact, various types of stews have been present in the cooking of various peoples of the world for many centuries. And they differ in many factors: serving temperature, consistency, main components.
Like regular first courses, low-calorie soups can be of different types, so today everyone can find recipes to suit their taste.
It is worth noting that low-calorie soups are already a subtype of ordinary first courses, since they are prepared according to a special recipe. Light vegetable, chicken broths or fermented milk products are used as a base. Typically, the recipe uses a lot of greens and low-calorie vegetables.
All fat-burning first courses can also be divided into groups. Particularly highlighted:
- Hot soups. They are usually served at about 70 degrees to avoid scalding. These soups are prepared based on broths, with dietary meat and various vegetables.
- Cold soups. They are popular not only in Russia, such as okroshka and kholodnik, but also in Europe, where they are prepared from vegetables and fruits, based on decoctions of them or various herbs. Such dishes are usually served at a temperature of 6 to 15 degrees. Some recipes recommend adding crushed ice.
- Puree soup. It is prepared by grinding all the components of the dish through a sieve or grinding them with a blender until a homogeneous mass is formed. The cook can choose the level of liquid at his discretion.
- Cream soup. It is a type of puree soup, but is prepared from lighter ingredients and most often from fruits and berries. After chopping and adding liquid, the mass of such a dish is additionally whipped with a whisk or mixer until foam forms.
A variety of fat-burning dishes allows you, even while adhering to a strict diet, to pamper yourself with your favorite flavors and their combinations. And the very opportunity to eat food that looks different is very helpful for those who find it difficult to follow a monotonous diet.
Fairytale bird
You can also successfully lose weight by eating meat soups. Diet soup with chicken meatballs will quickly convince you of this. Pass 300 g of chicken fillet with 2 peeled heads of garlic through a meat grinder. Add 2 eggs to the minced meat, salt to taste and make miniature meatballs. Place them in a saucepan with 2 liters of salted water and a bay leaf, cook with finely chopped potatoes for 20 minutes over medium heat. Lightly fry the chopped onion and medium-chopped carrots in oil. Place vegetables and herbs into the soup, season with salt and spices, and cook for 15 minutes. Doctors recommend this dietary soup recipe for ulcers and for disease prevention.
Lenten cabbage soup from fresh cabbage with mushrooms in a slow cooker
In this video clip, Valentina Sidorova will show us in detail how to prepare cabbage soup without meat. Very quick and tasty recipe. Mushrooms give this dish a unique taste. Especially when they simmer longer in the slow cooker.
However, when I prepare lean cabbage soup, I still add a little sour, sauerkraut. It gives the cabbage soup a delicious sourness and with it the mushroom broth is richer and more aromatic.
On fasting days, of course, you should not eat sour cream. If you cook lenten soups, prepare lenten mayonnaise for them. It can also be used in preparing vegetarian salads.
Autumn in a plate
Do you want to make a delicious diet soup without meat? Rich in vegetable protein, lentils can easily replace it. Soak 300 g of lentils in water, then boil until half cooked. Cut 150 g of red onion and celery into cubes, cut bell peppers and carrots into strips. Sauté the vegetables in a saucepan in olive oil until they soften. Then we season them with 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste and simmer for a couple of minutes. Add lentils to the vegetables, fill them with 2 liters of broth and cook until tender. If you wish, you can supplement the recipe for dietary lentil soup for weight loss with dry herbs - its taste will sparkle with new notes.
With shrimps
If you love seafood, you will definitely be interested in this low-calorie soup recipe for weight loss. Seafood is very healthy and low in calories, so you can eat it on a diet.
Ingredients:
- half a carrot;
- bulb;
- 150 g peeled shrimp;
- natural tomato paste without sugar;
- garlic clove;
- 1 tsp lemon juice;
- 1.5 liters of clean water;
- parsley;
- pepper;
- salt;
- 3 potatoes (this ingredient can be omitted if you want to make a very low calorie soup).
Mushroom velvet
Despite the fact that mushrooms are a heavy product, dietary champignon cream soup also has a right to exist. Cut 2 medium onions into cubes and fry them in olive oil until golden brown. We wash 400 g of fresh champignons, cut them into thin slices and add them to the onion. When the mushrooms are browned, pour in a glass of boiled water, salt and pepper to taste. Now beat the ingredients into a creamy mass, pour in a glass of heated cream and bring the soup to a boil. Before serving, decorate it with fresh herbs. Complete the soup with crispy croutons, and even those who don’t count calories won’t refuse it.
As you can see, you can keep yourself in shape without giving up your favorite foods without any effort. Do you know how to prepare diet soup? Share proven recipes that allow you to combine tasty and healthy.
Soup diet and its principles
Diet is a scary word that makes most women sad. It is associated primarily with strict restrictions on food, while in fact it only means a certain, properly structured nutrition system.
To lose weight with fat-burning soups, you don’t have to start eating only them.
There are different types of soup diets.
Strict diet
You can stick to it for no more than 10 days a month, during which you can realistically lose about 5-7 kilograms. To do this, you need to eat about a liter of soup a day in 4-6 doses. In addition to the “first”, you can only drink water and unsweetened green tea.
Weekly light diet
Its essence is that you need to eat soup every day: 2-3 servings, as well as other light foods in small quantities. This allows the body to get all the nutrients it needs and at the same time lose weight.
There are many such diet programs, but the following system is considered one of the most effective:
- soup every day, and in addition to it on some days of the week other products;
- Thursday – a glass of milk, kefir, yogurt or fermented baked milk (can be replaced with 200 grams of low-fat cottage cheese);
- Friday – 2 bananas or a handful of nuts;
- Saturday – 100 grams of baked potatoes;
- Sunday – 200 grams of any fresh light fruit.
Fasting diet
It consists in the fact that once or twice a week you eat only fat-burning soup during the day. It is advisable that three servings are enough for you, but if you feel a strong attack of hunger, eat an extra serving so as not to break down.
You can stick to the soup diet in different ways: it all depends on the type of food you choose. The main thing is that you prepare all the dishes at home from fresh and high-quality products, without allowing yourself excesses, such as:
- bakery and flour products;
- sweets in any form;
- fried or heavy foods, fast food;
- alcoholic drinks.
But fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, lean boiled meat and fish, still mineral water and green tea will perfectly complement a non-strict diet.
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