Summer soups: the best with zucchini
Created: 08/03/2022, 02:00 p.m
By: Joana Lück
Summertime soups are ideal, especially when they're packed with healthy veggies and served cold.
Some recipe ideas.
Zucchini is the trendy vegetable par excellence: It is low in calories, can even be eaten raw and tastes great in salads, stuffed or prepared with a spiral cutter.
But the pumpkin plant also cuts a fine figure in soups.
Summer soups: the best with zucchini
Zucchini is a popular summer vegetable.
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Vitamin A, B1, B2, B12 as well as biotin, folic acid, vitamins C and D and vitamin K - according to
GEO
, courgettes are a good source of vitamins.
If you heat zucchini, up to 30 percent of these ingredients are lost;
However, the elongated vegetable is still healthy.
Summertime soups don't have to be a contradiction if they're low in calories and/or served cold.
You should pour yourself a ladleful of the following soups:
Zucchini Cold Bowl
Zucchini Mint Soup
Coconut soup with zucchini
Cold bowls are more familiar with cucumbers.
But a zucchini cold bowl also tastes good and refreshes.
To do this, put a diced zucchini and chopped onion in a saucepan and bring the whole thing to a boil with about 500 milliliters of water and vegetable stock.
After about ten minutes, puree the mixture and refine it with cream or crème fraîche.
Garnish with dill.
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Dice a zucchini, a potato and an onion and sauté both in a saucepan with a little olive oil.
Add half a liter of broth and let it simmer.
After 15 to 20 minutes, puree the mixture and add chopped mint, if you like.
For a light coconut soup with zucchini, add diced zucchini to a saucepan along with garlic, ginger, and a chopped onion.
Sweat the whole thing slightly and deglaze with 200 milliliters of vegetable stock and 200 milliliters of coconut milk.
After about a quarter of an hour, puree the soup and season with soy sauce.
However, if the zucchini you have harvested tastes bitter, you should dispose of it, as the poisonous cucurbitacin may have accumulated in it.