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While women are looking for effective ways to lose weight, experimenting with all kinds of diets, testing new drugs and exercises, one proven, very cheap and affordable, and, most importantly, effective remedy passes their attention. These are vegetable diet dishes – celery soups. A green vegetable is famous for its negative calorie content: when consumed, the body receives fewer calories than it spends on assimilation.
Celery soup for weight loss: cooking video
Ingredients: – celery – 200 g (1 petiolate stem); – carrots – 100 g (1 pc.); – potatoes – 100-150 g (1-2 tubers); – onions – 50-70 g (1 pc. ); – vegetable oil – 4-6 tablespoons; – flour – ½ tablespoons; – milk – 300 ml; – boiled water – 300 ml; – salt – ½ tsp; – green onions, dill for decoration; – croutons for serving.
If you want to lose weight with celery soup, use skim milk. At the same time, the recipe allows for the replacement of water with vegetable or strained chicken broth.
Peel and rinse potatoes, onions, carrots under running water. Grate on a coarse grater. Rinse the celery (petiole and leaves) and chop finely. Heat 1/3 of the total amount of oil in a frying pan, add the onion and sauté it for 5-7 minutes. Attach the carrots, stir and simmer, covered for 10 minutes. Pour in half of the butter in the recipe, add the potatoes, stir and continue simmering for another 10 minutes. Pour the remaining oil into the pan, add the celery and simmer with constant stirring for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle the prepared vegetable mixture with flour, stir and cook for another 3 minutes, then grind everything in a blender. Add milk and water as you mix. If your blender bowl is small, add liquid as long as possible, then transfer the resulting puree to a saucepan, over medium heat, and add milk and water while stirring constantly. Bring to a boil, let it simmer for 1-2 minutes, salt and remove from heat. Serve with chopped green onions and dill; place the croutons platter separately.
In the absence of a blender, you can rub the stewed vegetables through a sieve. Just do this while they are still hot. Also, do not add milk and water to the resulting puree. Then the cream soup will turn out to be very tender, without lumps.
Bonn soup
Ingredients: – celery – 1 bunch with a root; – carrots – 5 pcs.; – sweet bell pepper – 2 pcs.; – onions – 5 pcs.; – white cabbage – 0,8-1 kg; – fresh tomatoes – 5 pcs.; – salt to taste; – fresh herbs for serving.
Peel celery, onions, carrots, cut into cubes (chop celery leaves with a knife). Dip the tomatoes in boiling water for a minute, peel and chop. Put vegetables in a saucepan, cover with water so that it barely covers them. Place the pot on the fire and simmer for 15 minutes. Then remove the finished vegetables with a slotted spoon and rub through a sieve or chop in a blender. Pour chopped cabbage and chopped bell pepper into the broth, from which the seeds were removed in advance. Cook for 10 minutes over high heat, and then on quiet until fully cooked. Before finishing, in about five minutes, put the vegetable puree in a saucepan, salt and stir. The classic Bonn soup is ready. Even if you are on a strict diet and your goal is to lose weight, you can safely eat such a soup in any quantity.
Celery soup with cheese
Ingredients: – celery root – 500 g; – onion – 1 pc .; – red apple – 2 pcs.; – Parmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) – 100 g; – cheddar cheese – 100 g; – vegetable broth – 3 glasses; – cider – ½ glass; – vegetable oil – 4 tbsp. l .; – salt and pepper to taste; – greens for decoration to taste.
You can substitute sour apple juice for cider, a weak apple wine. You can also use other cheeses, remembering, however, that the classic cheese soup with celery is prepared with the specified types of cheeses.
Peel the celery root and onion, cut the celery into cubes and chop the onion as small as possible. Heat 3 tablespoons in a saucepan. l. vegetable oil, add vegetables and sauté until golden brown. Then pour in the cider according to the recipe, bring to a boil and cook for 3-5 minutes. Add broth, cover and simmer vegetables over low heat for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut the apples into 4 pieces and remove the core. Cut into thin slices, dip each in vegetable oil and grill each side for 1-2 minutes. If you don’t have a grill, you can fry in hot oil in a skillet. Set aside a few slices for garnish, add the rest to the vegetables in a saucepan and cook for 5 minutes.
Grate cheeses, pour into a saucepan, salt and pepper. Add heat and bring the soup to a boil with constant stirring. Cheese soup with celery is ready. Arrange on plates, garnish with apple wedges and chopped herbs.