does anyone have a vegtable soup recipe that would be allowed on the atkins diet.?

Answer 1

Just cut up some veggies (like onions, summer squash, tomatoes, carrots, celery) and add some frozen ones (like spinach, green beans, corn, peas) to some salted, seasoned (Mrs. Dash) water and cook until it has boiled a few minutes and the veggies are soft. You can use chicken, beef, vegetable or tomato soup base instead of salt for the water.

Answer 2

Most veggie soup recipes are fairly Atkins friendly.

1. Start with a good chicken or beef stock. If you need to start with a pure vegetable stock because you don't want to eat any meat products, you can buy some pre-prepared or make your own by boiling carrots, celery, onions and a bit of tomato. Vegetable stock has more carbs than chicken stock. If you are on Induction you might not want to use carrots, but these really are the base of a good vegetable stock.

2. Add cut up vegetables. Cubed turnips, parsnips and/or rutabagas that have already been cooked until tender in a separate pot of water are a good potato substitute. Discard this water as it may be bitter, and taste the turnips. If they are still slightly bitter, simmer them in milk or cream, then once again drain them and discard the cooking liquid. Parsnips and rutabagas are usually not bitter, but do benefit from separate cooking.

3. Add other lower carb vegetables to taste. I steam cauliflower in the microwave and chop it finely. Adding tender cauliflower bits to your soup adds some very nice body and texture and the mouthfeel is very much like rice or pasta in the end product.

4. If you're on OWL, you can add beans.

5. Other good soup vegetable choices are celery, cabbage, summer or winter squash (winter squash is higher in carbs), chayote, fresh greens, tomato (watch the carbs), garlic and onions.

6. If you want a thicker soup, puree some of the soup vegetables and mix them back in. You can also add cream or low carb soy milk if you want a creamy texture.

8. You will not need to use salt if you are starting with a commercial chicken or beef broth, but try a pinch of sea salt if you are making your own stock. Herbs and fresh ground pepper are also very nice in a homemade soup.

9. Cheese can be a very nice accompaniment to soup. Add it on top of the soup it at the last minute; you don't want to boil cheese. Alternatively make a basic roux with butter plus Atkins Bake Mix or another suitable flour substitute (WPI won't work and neither will nut flour) and melt in cheese and half and half. The resulting cheese sauce can be incorporated into the soup, but don't do more than briefly blend and simmer it.

10. Don't forget the low carb cornbread to go along with the soup. Look in Low Carb Cooking Lessons for an excellent cornbread recipe using hazelnut flour and soy grits that you can't tell from the real thing.

Answer 3

this recipes has worked really good for me, but the problem is you can only have 1 cup of it cause it does contain some of the little bit higher carb veggies
1 bunch of Kale
1 onion
2 Bock Choy stocks
5-6 fresh mushrooms (depends on how you like them)
1 fennel bulb
1 bunch of radishes
1 yellow zucchini
1 green zucchini

cut all the veggies into bite size pieces and place them in a pot with some beef stock (I make my own using beef bones and water with a little bit of salt) and let simmer for about 1 hour or you can place in a crock pot for several hours. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. Thus as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.