Scrumptious Healthy Vegetarian Soup Recipes

You may savour creamy, soothing and delicious soups anytime of the year. Soups have a comforting effect on a cold wintry day and if the day is warm then you may opt for a chilled soup full of scrumptious flavours.

You may prefer to have soup as light broth accompanied with the main course or as thick stew-like soups which are meals in themselves. Soups can be made catering to varied tastes and preferences. You may choose and add ingredients of your choice to the soup. There are no restrictions on the ingredients; soups are made of vegetables, rice, lentils and meat.

In fact, intelligent home-makers often use leftover food to prepare lip-smacking tasty soups for the whole family.
For preparing healthy homemade soups just choose from our collection of vegetable soup recipes, creamy soup recipes and special soup recipes for Christmas, Easters and many more.

Rich Peas Soup with a Minty Flavour

Ingredients

5-8 Fresh mint leaves
1 cup Green peas
3 cups Vegetable stock
1 tablespoon butter
2-3 cloves finely chopped garlic
1 Onion chopped finely
Salt to taste
1 cup milk

Blend together peas, a portion of the vegetable stock and the mint leaves adding some water. Heat butter in a pan, add garlic and onion and sauté for two minutes. Add the blended mixture and salt and stir. Bring it to a boil. Cool the pea mixture a little and blend again. Transfer into a pan and add the remaining stock. Add milk and stir and bring to a boil. Serve hot.

Pumpkin & Potato Soup

Ingredients

2 potato cut into cubes
250 grams red pumpkin cut into cubes
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cups of water
Salt to taste
1 Bay leaf
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
½ teaspoon crushed black peppercorns
½ cup Cream

Fresh coriander leaves a few sprigs

Take pumpkin and potato in a pan. Add lemon juice, salt, bay leaf and water. Cook on high heat. Once it comes to a boil, cover and cook on low heat till completely cooked. Mash the mixture with a fork. Add more water to make it thinner in consistency. Let the mixture cool. Remove the bay leaf and then blend to make a puree.

Add two cups of water and turmeric powder and mix well. Bring to a boil. Add peppercorns and mix well. Reduce heat and add fresh cream. Garnish with coriander and serve hot.

You may also try some heart healthy Campbell’s soup recipes. The recipes are cent percent tried and tested and you would surely not be disappointed if you try any of them. The company also has a range of nourishing and mouth watering condensed soup mixtures that are convenient to store and ready to eat. Some of these are low in cholesterol, low in fats and low in sodium.