Vegetable soup for weight loss

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. The set of monjo vegetables can be changed at will, but you need to take into account that some vegetables can also be high-calorie, for example, potatoes, so you need to take this into account when choosing products. Instead of potatoes, you can use young zucchini, they also give the soup volume like potatoes, but at the same time contain few calories. My zucchini and cut into cubes. Mature zucchini must first be cleaned.

2. Step 2:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned and grated on a coarse grater.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion from the husk. Add celery stalks to the ingredients. This vegetable is the basis of many dietary dishes. In addition, celery contains a lot of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, essential oils, normalizes the digestive system and has a restorative effect on the body. Cut the onion and celery into cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Bulgarian pepper is washed, cut into two parts, cut out the seed capsule, cut the pulp into strips or cubes. Wash the tomatoes, pour boiling water, remove the skin, finely chop the pulp with a knife.

5. Step 5:

   

   We clean the white cabbage from the upper leaves and chop it with thin straws.The broth on which vegetable soup is cooked also affects the process of weight loss. For example, mushroom broth contains only 5 kcal in 100 ml, and pork meat contains 40 kcal.

7. Step 6:

   

   But you do not always need to limit yourself to vegetable broths, you can also cook vegetable soup on meat broth cooked from dietary chicken breast or turkey, which will have only 15 kcal when vegetable broth has 13 kcal per 100 ml. The turkey fillet is washed and boiled in hot salted water, the meat is removed, the broth is filtered.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the cooked carrots, onions, celery, bell pepper in a pot with broth and put it on fire.

9. Step 8:

   

   After five 10 minutes, add tomatoes and white cabbage. Cabbage is laid last, it should be a little crispy in the finished dish, which also has a good effect on the work of the intestines, the body will digest the fiber contained in cabbage longer, and the feeling of satiety will last longer.

10. Step 9:

    

    Simmer for about 15 minutes more. Remove the foam formed on the surface of the soup. Add a little salt, ground black pepper or other spices to taste. Salt does not need to be added a lot, as it is able to retain water in the body, which, in turn, prevents the burning of calories and weight loss. And such spicy spices as red, ground black pepper improve metabolism and, consequently, contribute to weight loss.

11. Step 10:

    

    The soup is ready. We serve it to the table. Bon appetit!