Easy Healthy Soup Recipes: Low Calorie Soup Recipes

Hale And Hearty Soups

Healthy soup recipes can be as involved as beef stew and as simple as onion soup. It just depends on what you feel like eating. Soups are fun to prepare and nutritious too.

Healthy Soup Recipes: Beef Stew

The vegetables are what give the broth in beef stew its flavor. Meat is only ¼ of this dish and should not overwhelm this dish.

Ingredients For Beef Stew

• 6 oz lean beef tenderloin tips, diced
• 3 cloves of garlic, diced
• 1 cup of baby onions
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 2 celery sticks, sliced
• 4 potatoes, diced
• 2 roma tomatoes, chopped
• ¼ cup red cooking (dry) wine (optional)
• Olive oil
• 1-teaspoon rosemary
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon thyme
• 2 bay leaves
• Sea salt and pepper
• 2-tablespoon flour

In a large soup pot, sauté the garlic and onions in olive oil. Add the beef tips and cook for two minutes. Add the flour and mix well. Add the wine and cook for one minute. Add 6 to 8 cups of water, bay leaf, and the rest of the vegetables and bring to a boil.

Turn down heat and simmer for 1-½ hours. Add the herbs and cook for another half hour. Serve this with a green salad and whole wheat bread.

Healthy Soup Recipes: Cabbage Soup

Cabbage soup is very healthful, and this recipe is easy to make. This particular recipe has a very tasty broth, and it would be good to give to those who are sick with a cold or flu.

Cabbage Soup Ingredients

• ½ head of cabbage, chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1 large onion
• 1-12 oz can crushed tomatoes (salt and sugar free)
• 1 stalk of celery, diced
• 1 carrot stick, diced
• Olive oil
• 1-teaspoon basil
• ½ teaspoon oregano
• ½ teaspoon tarragon
• 1 bay leaf

Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. Meanwhile wash and chop the vegetables and add them to the soup pot. Add 6 to 8 cups of water and bring to a boil. Turn down heat and simmer for one full hour. Enjoy with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and whole-wheat rolls.

Healthy Soup Recipes: This and That Vegetable Soup

Vegetable soup is a little of this and a little of that—whatever veggies you happen to have on hand in your refrigerator and pantry. It doesn’t really matter if its green beans or asparagus. Throw it into the soup pot.

A secret to making good soups and broths is to always sauté the garlic and onion first in olive oil. Then add the rest of the ingredients. A healthy diet would include a variety of soups. Contrary to popular belief, beans do not need to have fatty ham hock, ground meat, or bacon to give them flavor if you use the right herbs and spices.