Healthy Creamy Vegetable Soups

Although it seems like salt is essential in our recipes, we can choose to use spices instead, to add a little extra flavor to our healthy creamy vegetable soups.

All vegetable soups are healthy. However, the healthiest type does not contain added ingredients that are considered bad for your health.

Unhealthy fatty ingredients

For example, healthy creamy vegetable soups are no longer healthy if you add fatty ingredients, carbohydrates or excessive amounts of salt. There is a habit of adding grated cheese, toast or fried bread, cream, a lot of salt, sugar, meat, etc.

First , these items increase the calorie content of the dish. Second, it increases cholesterol, triglyceride and sodium levels, all of which pose a risk to your health.

You should use the vegetables that are in season when cooking your healthy creamy vegetable soups, making them high in nutritional value while being low in fat, carbohydrates and salt.

How are ingredients in vegetable soups replaced so that they remain healthy?

The ingredients we mentioned before – the fatty ones – can easily be replaced by other delicious varieties.

Here are some tips:

• Choose olive oil instead of butter or regular oil, and use it in small amounts.
• Use feta cheese or tofu instead of fatty cheeses.
• Vegetable milk is a perfect substitute for cream or cow’s milk. Coconut milk goes well with creamy vegetable soups.
• Pieces of fish or poultry are a much better choice than processed sausages.
• If you want the crispy effect of toast or fried bread, you can use nuts or light croutons sold in the supermarket as an alternative.
• Instead of using cream to smooth the soup, you can add a potato cooked with the rest of the vegetables to thicken the soup with.

• If the intention is to give your soup a better taste, there are many herbs and natural spices that are ideal to do it with, like coriander, onion and basil.
• A vegetable soup made with the right ingredients does not need salt. Garlic, chili powder, lemon juice and pepper in small amounts have intense flavors that can replace excessive salt consumption, which is harmful to our health.

Exciting recipes for healthy creamy vegetable soups

Here we give you 3 recipes for creamy vegetable soups that are easy to make yourself.

Creamy pumpkin soup

Ingredients:

• A medium pumpkin
• Olive oil
• 1 small onion
• 1 leek
• 2 garlic cloves
• Coriander or other herbs (to taste)
• Pepper
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 potato or 1 ripe apple
• 6 cups vegetable broth (1500 ml)
• 1 yogurt natural (125 g)
• Nuts, feta cheese or tofu (to taste) (optional)

Preparation

• First peel the pumpkin, take out the seeds and cut the meat into small pieces. Saute in olive oil and save for later.
• Saute onion, leek and chopped garlic and then add herbs, salt and pepper. Add pumpkin and potato or chopped apple.
• Then add vegetable broth and cook for between 10 and 15 minutes.
• Add yogurt and the rest of the ingredients and puree.
• On top add some chopped nuts, feta cheese or tofu and sprinkle some basil over.

Porresuppe

Ingredients

• 4 leeks
• 1 medium onion
• Olive oil
• Pepper and a pinch of salt
• 1 medium potato or ripe apple
• 4 cups vegetable broth (1 liter)
• 1 yogurt natural (125 g)
• Nuts and basil to taste (optional)

Preparation

• Wash and cut the leeks into pieces.
• Cut onion julienne and sauté in olive oil.
• Add the leeks and continue to sauté.
• Add salt and pepper and then potato or chopped apple.
• Then add vegetable broth and cook until tender.
• Then yogurt is added and the soup is pureed.
• When serving, sprinkle nuts and finely chopped basil on top.

Vegetable soup

Ingredients

• 2 leeks
• 1 large zucchini

• 1 carrot
• Olive oil
• 2 cups spinach (60 g)
• Pepper and a pinch of salt
• 4 cups vegetable broth (1 liter)
• 1 natural yogurt (125 g)
• Nuts to taste (optional)
• Freshly chopped basil to taste (optional)

Preparation

• Leeks, courgette and carrot are cut into pieces and sautéed in olive oil,
• Also add chopped spinach, salt and pepper and continue to sauté slightly over medium heat.
• Then pour in vegetable broth and cook for approx. 15 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.
• Add yogurt and puree until you have the desired consistency,
• When serving, add a little olive oil and add a crispy component, like nuts.
• Sprinkle with basil.

Cooking with fresh products

By using vegetables that are in season for your healthy creamy vegetable soups, you are utilizing a fresh, optimal ingredient.

The important thing when making vegetable soups is to prepare a healthy meal that gets its taste from natural ingredients and is not processed unnecessarily.