Vegetable creams are an ideal option for dinner or as a first course in a healthy diet. At this article, we have prepared a cream of zucchini and leek with hardly any fat and highly recommended for losing weight. You always have the possibility of adding more ingredients to this soup, but only with those that we recommend you will be at its point.
There are many people who make leek and zucchini cream with milk or milk cream, however, these ingredients increase the total calories of the dish, something that is not recommended if we want to lose a few kilos or follow a healthy diet. Therefore, we teach you how to cook a cream with water, low in calories but with a lot of flavor. Dare to follow the step by step to know how to make zucchini and leek cream.
Ingredients to make Zucchini and Leek Cream:
- 3 courgettes
- 1 leek
- ½ spring onion
- 2 teaspoons of butter
- 1 splash of olive oil
- 500 milliliters of water
How to make Zucchini and Leek Cream:
- Gather all the ingredients to prepare the cream of leeks and zucchini faster.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat and mix it with a drizzle of olive oil. Add the sliced leek and julienned spring onion. Cook the vegetables over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Tip: To make the recipe even lighter and also vegan, remove the butter and use only olive oil.
- Add the peeled and sliced courgettes about 1 cm. Season with salt and pepper and cook with the rest of the vegetables for 3 minutes. If you feel like it, you can leave a bit of the zucchini skin to give more color to the leek and zucchini cream.
- It is time to add water to cover the vegetables and bring it to a boil for 15 minutes. You can substitute the water for vegetable broth. If you want to make a homemade broth, you can follow the steps of the vegetable broth recipe. If necessary, add a little more salt.
- Tip: To make the zucchini and leek cream in a quick pot, sauté the spring onion, add the vegetables, the water, cover the pot and let them cook for 5-10 minutes.
- When the courgettes are tender, remove the pot from the heat and mash the vegetables until smooth and without lumps.
- Trick: We recommend removing part of the broth to add the necessary as you grind. This way, you can control how runny or thick the cream is.
- This cream of zucchini and leek without potatoes is a very healthy vegan recipe, but if you want to add a different touch, you can decorate the dish with a shavings of Serrano ham on top. On the other hand, it should be noted that you can serve the zucchini and leek cream cold if you wish. And if you want to know other similar dishes, we recommend the gratin spinach cream or the quinoa cream. Take advantage!
