Oct 02 2008
Yummy Celery soup
Hii all…seasons are changing..so better be prepared. This winter, i will make sure to have soups almost every alternate day. Soups are healthy and highly nutritious. Soups help in building resistance power and immunity. I am submitting this yummy celery soup for the event “No Croutons Required”
I came across one article about negative calorie foods and I was quite amazed at how nature provides with everything..it gives dates which are high calorie food as well as celery which is a negative calorie food.
Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though a food may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.
Isn’t it wonderful!! Frankly speaking I never knew it in fact I used to eat celery only in salads..but this time i thought of using it in soup. This soup came out quite well. I love corn…so i always add cupful of corn in the soup..this time i added some seasoned croutons too..which gave really nice flavour!
You can garnish the soup with herbs like parsley, thyme or coriandar. Here is the recipe..Have the soup and enjoy the season!
Ingredients
4 sticks of celery chopped
2 carrots chopped
1 cup onion chopped
1 garlic pod
1 tomato
2 cups frozen corn
For garnishing
1/8th Crushed pepper
1 tsp Sugar
Salt to taste
Bread croutons
Method
- Put all the chopped vegetables in a pot. Add 2 cups of water and boil it on medium flame for 15 minutes.
- Using a colandar, strain the boiled vegetables. Do not throw the filtered water. It contains all the nutrients
- Now blend the boiled vegetables in a blender adding little bit of filtered water and then strain the whole blended mixture.
- Again heat the soup on medium flame and add salt, pepper, sugar. Keep stirring for 5 minutes and then switch off. The yummy celery soup is ready to be served!! Enjoy it with seasoned croutons!