Do you want to get rid of those extra pounds? Then make a carb-free vegetable soup with meatballs. It is suitable for different types of diets, will improve the work of the digestive tract, make you beautiful and slim. A recipe for those who dream of being always in shape.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Vegetable soups are always quick and easy to prepare. They are always light, and to make the dish more satisfying, they put meat in it. But for a dietary meal, you need to choose meat with less fat. For this, chicken fillet, dietary rabbit or turkey meat are suitable. Such soups, with all their variety, turn out to be hearty and tasty. In the absence of meat broth, you can cook soup with vegetable broth. But if you have a small amount of minced meat, you can also make a hearty first course. Make meatballs out of it for a richer, more nutritious soup. Meatballs are small balls of meat made of any kind of meat. Usually, they use leftovers or scraps of meat that are not suitable for any dish. It can even be assorted.
Vegetables are always a healthy diet. You can choose them for a dish based on personal taste preferences. You can make a delicious soup with cabbage, zucchini, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, pumpkin and other foods. The only vegetable exception is potatoes. It does not apply to carbohydrate-free foods and dietary meals. Therefore, it is usually not included in the soup.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 48 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 1 pc. big
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Sweet bell pepper - 1 pc.
- Meatballs - 200-300 g
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon for frying
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
How to prepare a carbohydrate-free vegetable soup with meatballs step by step:
1. Prepare all vegetables. Wash and cut into cubes. The ones that need to be peeled are onions and carrots, peel first. Remove the bitterness from the eggplant. To do this, sprinkle the chopped vegetable with salt and leave for half an hour. When droplets appear, rinse them under running water. Choose young zucchini, if the vegetable is ripe, then peel it from the hard peel and remove the soft seeds. Remove the seeds and partitions from the bell pepper. Choose dense tomatoes so that they retain their shape during cooking. The soft fruits will boil up and turn into a puree.
2. In a skillet in butter, lightly sauté onions, carrots and bell peppers. Although if you want to lose weight or lose extra pounds, it is better to cook vegetables right away, bypassing frying.
3. Dip the eggplant zucchini and fried vegetables into a saucepan.
4. Place the pot on the stove and boil. Heat to minimum and cook for about 15 minutes. Then dip the meatballs into the boiling soup and heat up high.
This recipe uses frozen meatballs. How to freeze them, you can find the recipe on the website. To make them, you need to twist the meat through the fine grill of the meat grinder. Season with salt, pepper, stir and form into balls no larger than a walnut.
5. Cook the soup for about 7 minutes and season with salt and pepper. Place greens: fresh, frozen, or dried. You can add any spices with spices.
6. Put the tomatoes in the soup, let it boil for 2-3 minutes and turn off the heat.
7. Leave it to sit for 15 minutes and serve. Serve with croutons or croutons.
See also a video recipe on how to cook dietary vegetable soup with meatballs.
