Healthy and Tasty Soup Recipes for a Balanced Meal

Tortellini Soup with Spinach and Delicious Shrimp Soup

andra picincu

Soup represents the secret of a balanced meal, full of nutrients and health. Several studies have shown that people who use to consume soup everyday have a lower intake of calories than those who ignore this habit. Summer soup recipes contain various vitamins from vegetables and much more, they are easy to prepare and quick, as their preparation doesn't require special culinary skills.

I will present you two healthy soup recipes, Tortellini soup with spinach and Delicious shrimp soup. Bon appetit!

1. Tortellini soup with spinach

Type of recipe: Italian

Preparation time: quick

Number of portions: 4

Calories: 246 Kcal

Tortellini soup with spinach is an easy and quick soup recipe. It's impossible not to like it, as it combines the delicious chicken with extravagant tortellini and with the spinach full of vitamins and iron!

Ingredients

284 g frozen spinach

2 cans of canned chicken soup (420 ml)

260 g of cheese tortellini

1 g dried basil

2 g of garlic powder

Small carrots

Salt, pepper to your taste

Method of preparation

In a large vessel mix the spinach and the chicken soup, add carrots and boil the ingredients, then reduce the fire to a minimum.

Add tortellini and mix everything for 10-15 minutes, or until the pastas becomes soft.

Add basil and garlic powder.

2. Delicious shrimp soup

Type of recipe: Chinese

Preparation time: medium

Number of portions: 8

Calories: 514 Kcal

The shrimp soup is a delicate combination of several healthy ingredients. It is a Chinese traditional food and you can prepare it if you want to try something new.

Ingredients:

910 g shrimps with tail

2 l chicken soup

7 g powdered rosemary

5 cloves of garlic

2 g ground black pepper

2 g celery seeds

1 g caraway seeds

1 / 2 box tomato cream

225 g butter

235 ml white wine

Method of preparation

Put the chicken soup into a large vessel; add rosemary, garlic, pepper, celery seeds, caraway seeds, tomato cream and butter.

Boil the ingredients for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

Pour the wine in the soup and continue to mix from time to time for 2 hours at very low fire.

Right before serving the soup, add the shrimps; Boil for about 3 minutes or until the shrimps become opaque.

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  • Cherie Bowser7/11/2009

    Sounds great!

  • Magena Fawn7/11/2009

    I really love soup and I like to have it year-round. This sounds delicious!

  • Carol Roach7/8/2009

    sounds wonderful

  • Nikki7/8/2009

    We like to eat soup, thanks for the recipes.

  • Todd McCall7/8/2009

    The tortellini recipe sounds delicious, thanks!

  • Janet Hunt7/8/2009

    I love soup. Thanks for these recipes!

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