Eat with gusto and lose excess weight. This soup works wonders

A dozen or so years ago, she gained enormous fame cabbage soup diet. Its base was a vegetable soup prepared almost without fat, without cream or roux and – importantly – without salt. Today, slimming cabbage soup has been somewhat forgotten. After a wave of fashionable, poorly balanced diets, the media is finally promoting truly healthy menus – the Mediterranean or DASH diet.

Is it worth going back to cabbage soup? You certainly don’t have to eat it for every meal to lose weight. Nevertheless, such a soup fits perfectly into the principles of the healthiest diets. You can also successfully include it in low-calorie menus.

• 1 head of white or savoy cabbage,
• 6 tomatoes,
• 6 medium-sized onions,
• 2 green peppers,
• 1 bunch of celery,
• 2 cloves of garlic,
• 1 teaspoon of ground cumin,
• herbs (to taste),
• pepper, chili (to taste),
• 3 liters of water,
• 1 tablespoon olive oil.

Remove the outer, damaged leaves and core from the cabbage. Chop it finely. Transfer to a large pot.

Blanch the tomatoes and peel them. Remove the green part. Cut the rest into cubes.

Remove the seeds from the peppers. Cut the peppers into cubes. Rinse and cut the celery into the same size cubes as the peppers.

Fry the peppers and celery in half the olive oil. When the vegetables soften a bit, add the tomatoes. Stew for several minutes. Transfer to the pot with the cabbage.

Fry the onion in the remaining olive oil. At the end of frying, add pressed garlic to the pan. Add the fried vegetables to the pot.

Pour water over the vegetables in the pot. Add cumin and mix. Cook the vegetables over low heat until they are completely soft – about 30-40 minutes. At the end of cooking, season the soup with pepper, chili and your favorite herbs. Don’t add salt!

Eat soup without carbohydrate additives. If you are not on a strict diet, you can snack on cabbage soup with a piece of bread.

Source: Terazgotuje.pl