Cold weather begs for warm, steamy dishes and these comforting soups will give you enough variety in texture and flavour so you don’t feel bored. Also, you can whip up a couple and freeze them for work lunches. Score! Start with a good-quality chicken or vegetable stock (plus, some chilli, garlic and onion) and build up from there.
Soup stars
Get your kitchen tools ready and you’ll be off creating flavourful, comforting soups in no time.
Smeg Hand Blender
This retro-styled hand blender does it all, including mashing, blending and chopping.
Haden Jug Blender
Jug blenders make it easy to dump soups into and blend in a blitz.
Kambrook Smartlife Soup Maker
Blades whirr and break down veg, while a heating plate makes it easy to create your soups in one container.
Comforting soups that boost immunity
These vegetable soups are jam-packed with immune-boosting veggies. They’ll ward off illness and have you feeling like your strongest self. Here’s why.
Cauliflower
This white veg is high in nutrients, despite its lack of colour. And just one serving gives you 58% of your daily allowance of vitamin C. It’s also high in fibre, feeding your gut’s healthy bacteria and dialling up digestion.
Spinach
The benefits of spinach are so large that it’s considered a superfood. And for good reason: from flushing out the free radicals that lead to cancer to enhancing your body’s essential functions, spinach is an all-rounder queen.
Butternut
Butternut is a powerful source of vitamins, including vitamins A, C and E. From taking care of your hair, skin and nails to boosting immunity, butternut is great at souping up your meal’s nutritional profile.
Cauli Soup
Spinach and broccoli soup
Spicy butternut soup
Source: https://www.womenshealthsa.co.za/food-and-nutrition/feed/
