If your sluggish system needs a warmer kind of TLC than green juice this winter (hey, it happens), it’s time to try a soup cleanse, say Angela Blatteis and Vivienne Vella. The founders of the first soup-cleanse-only shop in Los Angeles, Soupure, are at the forefront of the souping movement. In January, they went national, shipping their popular nutrient-rich soup cleanses around the country, and releasing their first book, The Soup Cleanse.
The duo like its fiber, which recent studies show is key to gut health (and may play a role in cancer prevention), and which juicing typically removes. The fiber content in soups helps prevent the blood sugar spikes you get with juicing, say Blatteis and Vella, who partnered with chefs and nutritionists to come up with The Soup Cleanse recipes.
So you’re less likely to throw your metabolism out of whack (which can lead to weight gain) or inspire the need to binge, the founders point out, because, you’re getting massive clown-car levels of veggies in each sip.
“If you took all of the ingredients in one of our cleanses and put them on a plate in whole food form, it would be difficult to finish them all. Souping offers a way to pack in all that nutrition your body needs in a more efficient way,” say Blatteis and Vella.
In fact, The Soup Cleanse recipes are quite filling for, well, a cleanse (while being free of dairy, gluten, processed soy, and refined sugars)—think Pumpkin Miso, Creamy Carrot Ginger, and Spring Pea.
1. Vegetable Soup
Ingredients:
Procedure:
First clean and cut all the vegetables.
Then start the vegetables in the pot according to the following: 1st – carrot, 2nd – onion, 3rd – cabbage, 4th – cucumber, 5th – tomatoes, 6th – pepper.
Cover the pot and let the vegetables suck in their juice in a small fire for 25-30 minutes. If necessary, add some water. Shake the pot regularly.
Pour the boiling water into the pot, soak it, bring it to boil, and turn it off.
The soup is ready – you can decorate it with dill, parsley, and cream.
2. Dairy vegetable soup
Ingredients:
Procedure:
Cut the carrots into cubes and fry it with half butter.
Divide the cauliflower into smaller pieces.
Clean and cut potatoes into small cubes.
Grab the milk and remove the foam from the surface.
Bring the water to the boil, soak it, add the potatoes, the cauliflower and, later, the carrot.
Boil in a weaker flame and after 15 minutes, add milk and cook until all is soft.
Finally, add the green peas, cover the pot and leave the cooker for 15 minutes.
3. Meatballs soup
Ingredients:
Procedure:
Allow the pot to grip the water and put the grated carrot with the potatoes in it.
From the minced meat, shape the balls.
When the potatoes are ready, add meatballs, rice, bay leaf, salt and pepper to the soup.
Add the chopped green onions and herbs to the end.
Enjoy your meal!
4. Cheese soup
Ingredients:
Procedure:
Clean the potatoes, cut them into small pieces, pour them with water and cook.
Remove the carrots, chop the onions and season with vegetable oil.
Add carrots with onion and cheese to the potatoes.
Mix everything and wait until the cheese completely melted. Cook for 30 minutes.
Done!
Procedure:
Cut chicken breasts into medium sized cubes.
Clean the potatoes with cubes and carrots on the wheels.
Fry the meat in a pan with a small amount of olive oil.
Prepare the broth, and add a bay leaf, new spice and chicken breast to it.
Reduce flame and cook for 7-10 minutes.
Add the carrot and cook an extra 10-15 minutes.
After the time has passed, add the melted cheese and mix to make the cheese melt.
Season, pepper, and season with herbs. Mix and remove from the stove and serve!
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Why soup?
The duo like its fiber, which recent studies show is key to gut health (and may play a role in cancer prevention), and which juicing typically removes. The fiber content in soups helps prevent the blood sugar spikes you get with juicing, say Blatteis and Vella, who partnered with chefs and nutritionists to come up with The Soup Cleanse recipes.
So you’re less likely to throw your metabolism out of whack (which can lead to weight gain) or inspire the need to binge, the founders point out, because, you’re getting massive clown-car levels of veggies in each sip.
“If you took all of the ingredients in one of our cleanses and put them on a plate in whole food form, it would be difficult to finish them all. Souping offers a way to pack in all that nutrition your body needs in a more efficient way,” say Blatteis and Vella.
In fact, The Soup Cleanse recipes are quite filling for, well, a cleanse (while being free of dairy, gluten, processed soy, and refined sugars)—think Pumpkin Miso, Creamy Carrot Ginger, and Spring Pea.
1. Vegetable Soup
Ingredients:
- One carrot
- One onion
- White cabbage
- One fresh cucumber
- 3-4 tomatoes
- 1/2 peppers
- Salt to taste
Procedure:
First clean and cut all the vegetables.
Then start the vegetables in the pot according to the following: 1st – carrot, 2nd – onion, 3rd – cabbage, 4th – cucumber, 5th – tomatoes, 6th – pepper.
Cover the pot and let the vegetables suck in their juice in a small fire for 25-30 minutes. If necessary, add some water. Shake the pot regularly.
Pour the boiling water into the pot, soak it, bring it to boil, and turn it off.
The soup is ready – you can decorate it with dill, parsley, and cream.
2. Dairy vegetable soup
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of milk
- 400 ml of water
- 400 g of potatoes
- 400 g of cauliflower
- 100 g of carrot
- 300 g of green peas
- 20 g of butter of salt
Procedure:
Cut the carrots into cubes and fry it with half butter.
Divide the cauliflower into smaller pieces.
Clean and cut potatoes into small cubes.
Grab the milk and remove the foam from the surface.
Bring the water to the boil, soak it, add the potatoes, the cauliflower and, later, the carrot.
Boil in a weaker flame and after 15 minutes, add milk and cook until all is soft.
Finally, add the green peas, cover the pot and leave the cooker for 15 minutes.
3. Meatballs soup
Ingredients:
- 2 liters of water
- 200 g of ground meat
- 100 g of carrot
- 300 g of potatoes
- 100 of rice
- 40 g of green onion
- Salt, pepper, and herbs according to taste
- bay leaf
Procedure:
Allow the pot to grip the water and put the grated carrot with the potatoes in it.
From the minced meat, shape the balls.
When the potatoes are ready, add meatballs, rice, bay leaf, salt and pepper to the soup.
Add the chopped green onions and herbs to the end.
Enjoy your meal!
4. Cheese soup
Ingredients:
- 1.5 liters of water
- 100 g of melted cheese
- One medium-sized carrot
- One medium-sized onion
- 4 medium potatoes
Procedure:
Clean the potatoes, cut them into small pieces, pour them with water and cook.
Remove the carrots, chop the onions and season with vegetable oil.
Add carrots with onion and cheese to the potatoes.
Mix everything and wait until the cheese completely melted. Cook for 30 minutes.
Done!
5. Cheese soup with meat
Ingredients:- 400 g chicken breasts
- Two potatoes
- One big carrot
- 180 g cheese
- 2 liters of broth
- herb of water
- Bunch of bay leaves,
- Spices
- Salt and pepper according to taste
Procedure:
Cut chicken breasts into medium sized cubes.
Clean the potatoes with cubes and carrots on the wheels.
Fry the meat in a pan with a small amount of olive oil.
Prepare the broth, and add a bay leaf, new spice and chicken breast to it.
Reduce flame and cook for 7-10 minutes.
Add the carrot and cook an extra 10-15 minutes.
After the time has passed, add the melted cheese and mix to make the cheese melt.
Season, pepper, and season with herbs. Mix and remove from the stove and serve!
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