How to Make Weight Loss Soup
Losing weight is simple, eat more healthy food and less junk. Here is a great soup recipe that is healthy, filling and has lots of heart healthy fiber. Replace a few meals a week with this soup and you can easily lose a pound or two in a healthy way. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Carrots
- Celery
- Onions
- Grape tomatoes
- Green bell pepper
- Yellow bell pepper
- Red bell pepper
- Kale
- Zucchini or yellow squash
- Lemon
- Chicken on the bone
- Water
- 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
- Crushed red pepper
- Basil
- Oregano
- Olive oil
- Bullion
- salt and pepper
Instructions
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This recipe is to be made with your own tastes in mind. Add more of your favorite vegetables, and less of your least favorites.
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Put water and chicken pieces into a pot. Add lemon juice to help extract calcium from the chicken bones, an onion and celery. Let boil for about an hour. Once the chicken is completely cooked, strain the water for the soup, and set aside the chicken. Throw out the vegetables. Clean chicken off the bones once it's cooled and save for later.
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Coarsely chop all vegetables into small pieces. Using a food processor would be best for the amount of chopping that is required for this soup.
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Add all vegetables into the leftover water used to cook the chicken. Let the soup simmer for at least a half hour with a couple cubes of bullion or salt. Use an immersion blender for a few seconds to thicken the soup.
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Clean chicken from bones and cut into small, bite sized pieces
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Add the crushed tomato sauce and all seasonings to your own personal taste preference. Add chicken pieces and a couple tablespoons of olive oil.
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Serve soup and top with freshly squeezed lemon juice, salt, pepper and a bit of parmesan.
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Tips & Warnings
Add all seasonings at the very end for best flavor
Add a potato if desired and any other vegetables you like
Don't use too much crushed red pepper, it's easy to overdo it
