Cauliflower is popular with diet lovers. No wonder. The high content of vitamins and microelements makes it useful, and its excellent taste makes it possible to diversify diet food.
Cauliflower is available and easy to prepare. A good option for its preparation can be chicken soup. Cauliflower soup is a delicious, nourishing, aromatic, incredibly showy and very healthy dish. Most often, cauliflower soups are prepared on the basis of meat or vegetable broth.
Benefit and harm
Cauliflower - a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. 100 grams of this vegetable contains 25 calories and the daily rate of vitamin C. This makes the dishes prepared on its basis suitable for diet and baby food. In addition, it is quite nutritious and contains not only fiber, which helps the intestines, but also quite rare plant protein.
When eating cauliflower dishes, you need to be careful of people with stomach diseases or with individual intolerance. It can cause the production of gastric juice, which makes its use unacceptable for people with gastric ulcer.
Recipe
This dish can be called diet. The chicken soup recipe is simple and quick. At the same time the dish turns out quite nutritious. Cabbage can be replaced with broccoli or cook them together, adding to the soup in equal amounts.
The following ingredients will be needed to make the soup.:
- Chicken broth 1.5 liters (you can take any other broth to taste).
- 3-4 potatoes
- Cauliflower (or broccoli) 200 g
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Greenery.
Step by Step Cooking Instructions
- Peel the potatoes and cut them. Head out into florets. Hold them for 20 minutes in salted water. This will help get rid of insects that may be in the head.
- In the broth put chopped potatoes. Boil 10 minutes.
- Add to the broth divided inflorescences. Two minutes before being ready to salt and add spices to taste.
- Turn off the finished soup and let it go for 10-15 minutes.
This recipe can be considered the easiest. He will help out when you want to cook a light and healthy soup. However, it can be varied at its discretion.
To prepare the soup, you can take ready broth, or you can add vegetables to it 20 minutes before it is cooked.
Variations
If you want to make the soup more satisfying or interesting, you can use the following recipe options:
- Cream soup. It is distinguished by its consistency. To make pureed soup, ready-made vegetables should be caught with a slotted spoon and chopped using a blender or ground through a sieve. The density of the finished dish is governed by adding the decoction left over from the soup. The meat in the soup can be crushed together with vegetables or added separately cut into pieces in the finished portion (more about the recipes of mashed soups can be found here).
- Cream soup with chicken broth. This version of the recipe can rightly be considered an exquisite dish. The process of its preparation is similar to the preparation of cream soup, but its main difference is the presence of cream in the recipe, which gives a delicate flavor. For the preparation can be suitable cream 10-20% fat. They are added after chopping vegetables (for more details about the variations of cream soups with cream can be found here).
With celery. For the preparation of this variant, celery and carrots are also needed. Onions, carrots and celery cut and passaged in vegetable oil. Put the pre-divided inflorescences into boiling water and after 5 minutes add the same potatoes and passaged vegetables.- With green peas. Peas can be picked fresh or canned. It is added at the very last turn, and it is not necessary to cook it until complete readiness. If canned peas, you can add a little pickle from the jar to the soup. Also, this soup can be cooked in a puree.
- With noodles. If you want to make the soup more satisfying, you can add small vermicelli to it. This should be done 5 minutes before the readiness of the dish. No need to wait until the vermicelli cooks completely. It softens until the soup comes up.
With celery. For the preparation of this variant, celery and carrots are also needed. Onions, carrots and celery cut and passaged in vegetable oil. Put the pre-divided inflorescences into boiling water and after 5 minutes add the same potatoes and passaged vegetables.If you want to make the soup less calorie and more useful potatoes can be replaced by zucchini.
Table setting
Ready-made soup can be served on a la carte plates, seasoned with greens. Meat that was used to make broth can also be served along with the soup.
Cream soup or cream soup served with croutons or crackers.
You can serve sliced meat, smoked meat, half a boiled egg, and sprinkle it with grated hard cheese and greens. In the soup, you can add sour cream to taste.
Cauliflower has many cooking options. Rich in trace elements and vitamins, it can diversify diet and baby food. Cauliflower or broccoli soup with chicken will be a good option for this.
