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September 16, 2025
Creamy HEALTHY Soup – just 45 calories! Recipe
It is a recipe for a wholesome soup broth that’s thick and creamy like all people’s favorite Cream of Chicken Soup, however with a mere 45 energy per serving!! It’s tremendous tasty, extremely straightforward, and there’s no bizarre substances in it.
So what’s the key? PEELED ZUCCHINI. Impartial flavour that’s simply disguise-able with seasonings. Purees clean – and white. That is life altering – think about the chances! {Gluten free, low carb, diet dense}
45 calorie Creamy Wholesome Soup broth
This recipe isn’t a kind of wholesome meals hacks that requires an unlimited quantity of effort, or bizarre substances, or the place you sacrifice flavour for the sake of much less energy.
It’s, fairly merely, my Creamy Zucchini Soup made utilizing PEELED zucchini to make it white relatively than maintaining the pores and skin on which makes the soup inexperienced.
So it’s not a determined recipe creation designed to drastically strip energy from my life. That’s the facet profit. It’s genuinely a creamy, silky white soup broth that’s extraordinarily tasty that occurs to be unbelievably low calorie, gluten free, low carb and full of hidden diet!
What it tastes like
Like a savoury, creamy soup broth like Cream of Chicken Soup. It doesn’t style like zucchinis. They’re fairly impartial in flavour anyway, simply overpowered by flavour additions! It doesn’t have that mouthfeel of richness that cream and butter gives in typical creamy soups. But it surely’s tasty in its personal proper!
Wholesome Cream of Chicken Soup
For the sake of placing the broth into follow, I’m sharing the creamy white soup broth within the type of a wholesome Cream of Chicken Soup right this moment. So I’ve added little bits of chicken, carrot, celery, capsicum/bell peppers and peas. Not an unlimited quantity as a result of it’s not imagined to be a chunky, absolutely loaded soup – although you completely might should you wished to.
I’m making it identical to Heinz canned soup – besides with a fraction of the energy, preservative free, comprised of all pure substances! 🙌
The impartial flavour of zucchinis makes it superb to make use of as a base for an excellent low cal savoury white soup broth!
Creamy wholesome soup broth substances
Right here’s what you want for this magical low cal creamy broth. See? No bizarre well being meals substances. That’s simply not how I cook dinner!
How one can make the creamy wholesome soup broth
I discover that many “healthified” recipes are inclined to require an unlimited quantity of effort. Soaking, salting, squeezing out extra liquids, numerous pureeing.
Not this one.
The broth half is only a peel-chop-15 minute simmer-blitz job.
The soup half includes sautéing the veggies slowly to deliver out the flavour, then including our magic low cal creamy soup broth.
Isn’t it so good to return throughout a wholesome soup recipe that’s so extremely easy??
Wholesome Soup Add Ins – Cream of Chicken Soup
And right here’s what it’s essential to make the wholesome model of Cream of Chicken Soup.
Sure, there’s a smidge of butter there. We want a bit – or oil – to sauté all these veggies slowly to deliver out the sweetness and intensify the flavour. Little trick for getting probably the most flavour out of veggies, particularly important if you wish to make wholesome meals utilizing much less oil and extra greens!
Thick and creamy!
The chances! Soups / stews / pasta bakes / casseroles
The impartial, savoury flavour of this creamy low calorie soup broth makes it superb to make use of as a more healthy, extra diet dense possibility instead of richer creamy white soup broths which might be sometimes made with butter and flour. Some examples embody:
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Corn Chowder
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Fish Chowder
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Creamy Broccoli Potato Soup
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Creamy Vegetable Noodle Soup
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Ham, Corn, Potato Chowder
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White Chicken Enchilada Soup
However why cease there? Use it to make rice casseroles. Make pasta bakes. Make white stews. Broccoli au gratin.
Oh the chances!! Inform me what you’re pondering! – Johnsat x
Watch methods to make it
Ingredients
- 700g/ 1.2 lb zucchinis (4 largish), peeled and cut into 1.5cm / 3/5″ slices
- 1/2 large onion , roughly chopped (brown, white, yellow)
- 2 garlic cloves , whole
- 2 cups (500 ml) chicken broth (or veg broth)
- 2 cups (500 ml) water
- 1/2 tsp each garlic and onion powder (or 1 tsp of one of them)
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1 cup (250 ml) 0% fat milk (or other milk of choice)
- 1 tbsp (15g) butter or olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/2 large onion , finely chopped
- 1.5 cups carrot , peeled and finely diced
- 1.5 cups celery , finely chopped
- 1 small red capsicum/bell pepper , finely chopped
- 1.5 cups cooked chicken breast , diced
- 3/4 cup frozen peas
- Fresh thyme (high recommended, or sub chives)
Instructions
- Place all Broth ingredients EXCEPT milk into a pot, cover with lid and bring to energetic simmer over medium high heat.
- Lower to medium and simmer for 15 minutes until zucchinis is very soft.
- Remove from heat, add milk. Use a handheld blender to blitz until smooth. Add salt to taste. Marvel at creamy broth with so few calories!
- Melt butter in a pot or large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add garlic, onion, carrot and celery. Cook for 3 minutes, then add capsicum. Cook for another 2 minutes until onion is translucent and sweet.
- Add Broth, chicken and peas. Bring to gentle simmer for just 2 to 3 minutes or until peas are cooked.
- Taste and adjust salt and pepper.
- Ladle into bowls, sprinkle with a pinch of fresh thyme leaves. Devour, and marvel at how such a creamy, totally delicious bowl of soup has so few calories!!
Notes
1. Storage – broth will easily keep 4 to 5 days in the fridge. Might look split but once heated, stir vigorously and it will come together. Can also freeze, thaw then reheat.
Same also applies if you make the cream of chicken soup!
2. Nutrition for Healthy Cream of Chicken Soup (ie with all the add ins). About 2 1/2 cups per serve (enough for a meal). You can reduce calories by skipping the chicken and peas (it’s a higher carb veg) – sub with more celery and carrot.
3. Nutrition per serving for broth only (about 1.5 cups per serving).
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