Weight Watchers recipes: Fantastic Vegetable Soup
This classic vegetable soup is excellent for weight loss and weightwatchers.
Weight Watchers Recipe
- Servings: 6
- Calories: 115
- Fat: 4
- WW Points: 2 weight watcher points
Ingredients
1 lb mushrooms
1 cup carrots, cut fine
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 cup celery, cut fine
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 cup onion, finely chopped
1 (14 oz) can beef broth or alternative
1/4 cup tomato paste
2 cups water
2 tablespoons dry sherry
1 bay leaf
2 teaspoons dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
1. First you need to clean the mushrooms, cut up a few of them and set them aside. Chop the remaining mushrooms and cook them in 1 tablespoon butter in a sizable cooking pot/pan.
2. Add all the remaining vegetables (except the mushrooms) and cook for about 7 minutes, stirring the mixture often.
3. Add in the tomato paste, broth, H2O and spices.
4. Simmer on low heat for about 1 hour.
5. Remove the bay leaf and throw it away.
6. In a large pan, melt the remaining butter and cook the sliced mushrooms until tenderized, then set them aside.
7. Utilize a blender to process the soup in batches.
8. Afterward, return the mixture to the soup pot.
9. Add the reserved sliced mushrooms and sherry to cooking pot
10. Heat up the soup carefully and not too quickly.
It will never fail to impress.
Serve and enjoy!
