Zucchini soup with cream

Light, dietary, tender, vegetable! Zucchini soup with cream, thanks to its puree-like consistency, is easily digested without loading the digestive system. This is an ideal lunch for a diet table and a therapeutic menu. Prepare one and get great health benefits!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 10 % 1 g
Fats 50 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 40 % 4 g
74 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 35 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook zucchini soup with cream? Prepare the necessary products. Instead of olive oil, any odorless vegetable oil is suitable.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the carrots previously washed in water with a brush, cut them arbitrarily, but not too large. Peel and chop the onion as well. The form of slicing vegetables in this case does not matter, since they will be crushed during cooking.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Which zucchini will work best? Choose young fruits with tender skins. Wash them and peel them. It is not necessary to cut off a very thin skin. If you use more mature zucchini, cut off the rough peel and cut out the middle with the seeds. Cut the squash into small slices.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In a frying pan with olive oil, add chopped carrots and onions, stirring occasionally, for 5-7 minutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the prepared zucchini in the pan, mix. If necessary, add a couple of tablespoons of water. Simmer the vegetables over medium heat, stirring, until half cooked.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put the vegetables in a suitable-sized saucepan. Pour hot water so that it only slightly covers the vegetables. Cook at a moderate boil until the vegetables are soft. The amount of water specified in the recipe can be reduced or increased at your request, depending on whether you want to get a thick or more liquid soup.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Remove the pan from the stove. Grind the hot vegetable mass with an immersion blender to a puree-like state. Do it carefully so as not to get burned.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Bring the vegetable puree to a boil over low heat. Add salt, add nutmeg, mix.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour in the cream, mix.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Bring the soup to a boil, remove from heat.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Zucchini soup with cream is ready. Bon appetit!

Vegetable soup is better to cook at one time. When reheated and stored, it loses most of its useful substances. Therefore, in order to get the maximum benefit from the cooked first course, do not cook it in large quantities.

Cream for this recipe can be of any fat content, but remember that the higher the percentage of fat content of the products you use, the higher the calorie content of the dish will be.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Buttermilk - 36   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 20% fat content - 300   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 10% fat content - 120   kcal/100g
  • Cream - 300   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556   kcal/100g

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