Winters are all set to bring cold waves and its perfect time to have a hot soup that is healthy and tasty!
Lemon Coriander Soup is a blend of vegetables like onion and carrot simmered slowly in a freshly made vegetable stock flavoured with garlic, coriander and lemon juice.
This healthy soup is not just delicious but a perfect evening snack for the winters. Those who are looking for a substitute of tea for a weight-loss plan would really appreciate this amazing soup.
Ingredients Overview
The main ingredients are lemon, coriander leaves and the veg stock.
For the vegetable stock, I have used potatoes, onion, garlic and carrot. Boil them in a pressure cooker for two whistles on full, simmer for 2 min. Cool off, blend and Sieve and your fresh veg stock is ready.
Though an optional step, I added a fresh stock for giving thickness to soup without adding processed foods like Maida (All purpose flour) or corn flour. If you skip it, it would be a thin soup and nothing that you might miss unless you like thick soups.
I like the natural taste of soups and not the restaurant ones. Somehow, instead of acting as an appetizer, they make me full instead.
When I started as a home chef, I decided to always use fresh ingredients. Infact, at my home, everyone like the thin soups. Easy to digest and doesnt make you feel bulky.
Making a thick soup or a thin soup is surely a choice that you may make.
I would recommend a veg stock for thickening a soup.
Ingredients Substitutes
For the veg stock, you may add any vegetables available locally. The thickness is assured by potatoes and carrots. You may add pumpkin, cauliflower or bottle gourd as well.
For the vegetables that are added in soup, I prefer carrots. One may add small chunks of beans as well. Tomatoes are avoided in this soup. I add onions and carrots only as too many vegetables make it like a mix veg soup.
The flavour of each soup depends on what goes in it. Here I wish to have coriander taking all the flavour and not the veggies. Hence, the vegetable stock to get the right proportion of flavours.
Can I preserve the Veg Stock?
You may preserve for at most two days, though fresh one tastes best. I understand that you may have a tight schedule and eating healthy is also on priority. In winters, weather is conducive for preserving food.
How this soup helps lose weight?
Do you think every soup helps lose weight?
NO!!
It depends on various factors. If you want to load soups with artificial flavours, thickness, you may revisit your weight-loss goals.
If you believe a shortcut to make a knorr soup can help you lose weight, forget the weight-loss agenda.
There is no point fooling ourselves. To gain something, we have to be ready to give a little.
Just before the evening walk, you may chop tomatoes, onion, garlic, carrots and boil them. Once back, blend, sieve, heat with spices and salt. You may add oil/ ghee. I always make them in ghee and they taste amazing!
This is the simple steps that you may follow for most of the soups. Change ingredients to have different flavours.
Talking about lemon coriander soup, its a great blend of fibre, carbs, Vitamin C, Vitamin A. A homemade soup helps you control the quantity of every ingredient.
Its a perfect soup for warding off cold and cough in every age group. An Immunity- Booster Low Calorie Soup that aids in weight loss and is delicious too!
Have it as a mid-day meal or an evening tea-time replacement.
Stories behind this Soup
Once named as a soup queen, I had made many soups when I decided to make this one. A friend of mine suggested me to try this soup. I was just wondering about its ingredients.
There are certain foods that you love to eat and a few that you might not like to eat but love to cook.
Lemon coriander is one soup which has my cooking passion. This is the first one that comes to my mind when I have a guest arriving. Generally, cooking for guests is stressful but with this soup on menu, I enjoy it fully!
Let me know in comments what is that you enjoy cooking and not eating!
Detailed Recipe of Veg Stock with Steps
1) Gather the ingredients like onion, carrot, potato and garlic for making the veg stock. Wash them under water. Roughly chop and add to pressure cooker. Add water one inch above the level of veggies. Boil for 2 whistles on full and simmer on 5 min max.
2) Once it cools off, Blend them with hand blender or a masher.
3) Sieve it and your veg stock is ready to use.
Detailed Recipe of Soup with Steps
1) While the stock is getting ready, you may chop the veggies that go in the soup. I have chosen onion and carrots. Also Chop the coriander leaves finely.
2) Take a heavy bottomed sauce pan, add desi ghee to it. You may use any oil of your choice. Add onions. When onions become transparent, add carrots.
3) Add little salt and saute for 2 min on simmer. I like the crunchy flavour. If you dont want that, cook for another 3-5 min (depends more on quantity and type of utensil). Add the veg stock prepared.
4) Let it simmer for 5 min. Add Black pepper, coriander leaves and fresh lemon juice.
5) Boil it for 2 min and switch off. The hot Lemon Coriander Soup is ready! Serve it with your choice of bread!
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Lemon Coriander Soup For weight-Loss
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker For Veg Stock
- Sauce Pan
Ingredients
Veg Stock
- 1 large onion
- 1 large carrot
- 1 large potato
- 4-5 cloves garlic
- 2 cups water
For the Lemon Coriander Soup
- 1.5 tsp Desi Ghee can use other oil
- 1 small carrot chopped finely
- 1 small onion chopped finely
- 1 medium lemon for juice
- few twigs coriander leaves wash and chop
- 2 cups water can adjust
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper
- salt as per taste
Instructions
For Veg Stock
- Gather the ingredients like onion, carrot, potato and garlic for making the veg stock. Wash them under water. Roughly chop and add to pressure cooker. Add water one inch above the level of veggies. Boil for 2 whistles on full and simmer on 5 min max.
- Once it cools off, Blend them with hand blender or a masher.
- Sieve it and your veg stock is ready to use.
For The Lemon Coriander Soup
- While the stock is getting ready, you may chop the veggies that go in the soup. I have chosen onion and carrots. Also Chop the coriander leaves finely.
- Take a heavy bottomed sauce pan, add desi ghee to it. You may use any oil of your choice. Add onions. When onions become transparent, add carrots.
- Add little salt and saute for 2 min on simmer. I like the crunchy flavour. If you dont want that, cook for another 3-5 min (depends more on quantity and type of utensil). Add the veg stock prepared.
- Let it simmer for 5 min. Add more salt, Black pepper, coriander leaves and fresh lemon juice.
- Boil it for 2 min and switch off. The hot Lemon Coriander Soup is ready! Serve it with your choice of bread!
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Notes
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving size: 1 bowl | |
| Servings: 5 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 56 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 1.1g | 1% |
| Saturated Fat 0.6g | 3% |
| Cholesterol 2mg | 1% |
| Sodium 20mg | 1% |
| Total Carbohydrate 10.8g | 4% |
| Dietary Fiber 1.6g | 6% |
| Total Sugars 2.9g | |
| Protein 1.3g | |
| Vitamin D 0mcg | 0% |
| Calcium 20mg | 2% |
| Iron 0mg | 2% |
| Potassium 254mg | 5% |
| *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calorie a day is used for general nutrition advice. | |
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