We are going to prepare an easy, quick and economical chard soup, a warm, healthy and light spoon dish. With the cold and low temperatures, you really want hot dishes and vegetable soups are ideal to warm up.
Eating vegetables is boring but we can prepare them in many ways to make them more appetizing, like this chard soup to lose weight with a wide variety of vegetables, a very satiating and low-calorie dish. I’m sure you like it.
Ingredients to make chard soup:
- 1 bunch of Swiss chard
- 2 carrots
- 100 grams of green beans
- 1 piece of cabbage
- 2 leeks
- 1 splash of olive oil
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 vegetable stock cube (optional)
How to make chard soup:
- We prepare the ingredients to prepare the chard soup. We wash all the vegetables.
- Chop all the vegetables into small pieces.
- Put a pot on the fire with a splash of oil, put the chopped leeks and let them brown a little over medium heat.
- When the leek is half poached, add the cabbage and let it cook for about 5 minutes with the leek. This will give more flavor to the slimming chard soup.
- After this time we add all the vegetables that are cut into small pieces and cover with water. Add a little salt and when it starts to boil add the vegetable stock cube, this will give more flavor to the chard and carrot soup. Let it cook until the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.
- Instead of covering with water and adding the concentrated stock cube, you can prepare this homemade vegetable stock recipe and add it directly.
- When the chard and carrot soup is done, put a little bit of vegetables and broth in a blender glass or bowl, grind it and add it to the soup, to give it more texture and thickness.
- We taste of salt, we rectify and the chard and leek soup will be ready to serve. How about making marinated baked ribs as a main course after vegetable soup? Find many more options to combine with this dish if it does not convince you on my blog cooking with Montse.
- Trick: The quantities of vegetables can be varied and put the ones you like the most.
