Low-Fat Soup Recipe for the Health Freaks

When you go down the memory lane and recollect the wonderful days of childhood, you would realize how every time you were sick, your mom or grand mom, cooked an absolutely soothing bowl of homemade soup!

Even today there may be times when you are not in the mood of cooking, exhausted or simply unwell. During such occasions soups are a healthy refuge. Just combine in the vegetables and vegetable stalks of your choice, some water and cover and simmer for a few hours. You may add thickening agents like corn flour or corn starch if you want it to be thick.

If you are on a weight loss mission or on a low fat diet due to health reasons, then your dietician would never ever forget including low-fat soups as part of your daily dietary intake. For those not preferring to go the vegan way, there are a whole lot of low fat chicken soup recipes to choose from.

Soups are very comforting heart warming savouries consumed either as appetizers or as meals. You may combine the vegetables, herbs, grains ad meat of your choice to prepare mouth watering soups.

What is even better is that you may add the leftover foods into the saucepan for making an absolutely scrumptious satiable soup meal!

Low-fat chicken soups are healthy, nutritious, energizing and filling. The recipe for preparing low fat chicken soup is as follows;

Delicious Easy to Cook Low Fat chicken Soup

1 chicken, skinned, boiled and cut into cubes
3 packets of low-fat chicken broth
2 Carrots, diced
1 cup mushrooms
1 cup of peas
1 cup of corn
Few bay leaves
2 stalks of celery
I can of tomato pulp

Combine all vegetables, celery, bay leaves, chicken broth, and tomato juice in a large pot or saucepan. Add some water to cover the vegetables. Cover and cook till vegetables are tender. Now add the cubed chicken pieces and cook for at least 30 minutes. Serve steaming hot.

You may replace the above recipe with the vegetables of your choice. If you prefer basil then you may do so instead of bay leaves. If you have some pasta sauce, you may add that also to the pot for the extra flavour.

The recipe is low in fat and low in carbohydrate and the vegetables like carrots, mushrooms, peas and corn are packed with the essential vitamins and minerals.

The next time you feel short of ideas while making soups, just remember the above recipe and add the ingredients of your choice to prepare a lip-smacking healthy chicken soup!