Spinach Soup Recipe

 

 

With a long list of vitamins and minerals, there is probably no need to tell you how nutritious spinach is, well even better if you don’t overcook it.

Here are two great home made spinach soup recipes that are wonderful for health, weight or calorie conscious people. Enjoy!

Spinach Soup Recipe

Ingredients: 

* 6 servings

• 200 g spinach

• Small bowl of noodles or vermicelli

• 1 piece of meat bouillon or 2 cups broth

• 1 tablespoon butter

• 2 tablespoons sunflower oil

• 1 tsp salt

• ½ tsp black pepper

• 1 tablespoon corn starch

Preparation: 

• Add your spinach in boiling water, boil it for one minute and remove and chop it into small pieces with the help of a blender.

• Chopped and blended spinach goes back into boiling water with a bit of meat broth, sunflower oil and noodles and cook the soup until the noodles are tender.

• Thicken your soup with the help of one tablespoon of corn starch and a bit of cold water.

• Add butter and serve.

Spinach Soup Recipe #2

Ingredients: 

• 1 medium onion, chopped

• 1 ½ medium potato, diced

• 2 ½ cups low salt, fat free vegetable or chicken broth

• 2 ½ cups fat-free milk

• 3 cloves garlic

• 1 six ounce bag baby spinach

• 2 tsp olive oil

• 1 tsp butter

• Black pepper to taste (Be careful with the use of salt as spinach is a naturally salty vegetable)

Preparation:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan. Sauté garlic, onion and potato for a few minutes- make sure garlic and onion are not burnt.

• Add milk and broth (chicken or vegetable broth). Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

• Stir in half the spinach, cover and simmer for 10 more minutes.

• Cool slightly, then transfer soup to a blender.

• Add remaining spinach and blend until smooth.

*Original Turkish Spinach Soup Recipe

Ispanak Corbasi

Malzemeler:

*6 kisilik

• 200 g ispanak

• Kucuk bir kase ev eristesi veya tel sehriye

• 1 adet et bulyon veya et suyu

• 2 yemek kasigi tereyagi

• 2 kasik aycicek yagi

• 1 cay kasigi tuz

• ½ cay kasigi kara biber

Yapilisi:

• Ispanaklar 2-3 su bardagi kaynar suda bir dakika haslanir ve cikarilir ve blender’la inceltilir.

• Tekrar kaynatilan suyun icine bosaltilir, et suyu ve aycicek yagi ilave edilir, eristeler atilir yumusayincaya kadar pisirilir.

• 1 yemek kasigi nisasta, cok az su ile inceltilip kivam ayarlanir.

• Tereyagi eklenip servis yapilir.