A diet cream soup made from mushrooms is not only tasty, but also a healthy dish for those who want to lose extra pounds. Often, champignons are used for its preparation, since this low-calorie product can be bought at the store without any problems. The article tells about which mushrooms should be used in recipes for weight loss, how they are useful, and recipes for dietary soups are given.
What mushrooms are suitable for diet
Mushrooms, in addition to proteins and fats, include a decent amount of water and beneficial amino acids. Different types of mushrooms have different calories. Truffles are very nutritious. The nutritional value per 100 g in raw mushrooms is 22 kcal, and in forest congeners - 40 kcal.
Did you know? Tinder funnel gray-yellow in taste is similar to chicken meat. In some places in America and Germany, it is considered a delicacy.
For weight loss, the following types of mushrooms are used:
- Pipers are edible. They grow on tree bark in temperate zones. They have many healing properties.
- Shiitake (Chinese mushroom). It is used in dried or boiled form. Helps reduce blood cholesterol, has a choleretic effect.
- Meitake (Japanese mushroom). It contains trace elements that contribute to the normalization of hormonal levels, which contributes to weight loss, if excess weight has arisen due to hormonal failure.
- Champignon. Low-calorie product that is cooked with vegetables or cereals. They can be boiled, fried, marinated and consumed raw.
Champignons are the most accessible and popular in diets. They contain folic acid, and specimens from the forest still have chitin compounds. It is because of this that the mushrooms have a dense structure. In mushrooms, water is almost 85%, which makes them especially suitable for weight loss. This product also has a lot of vitamins (A, groups B, PP, D and C), as well as trace elements such as iron, phosphorus, copper, manganese, sulfur, selenium. They also contain lecithin, digesting enzymes, polysaccharides. It is an excellent source of protein that is not inferior to meat but low in calories.
Soup Recipes
A great option for diet food is the consumption of mushroom soups. They turn out tasty, satisfying and low-calorie. Their preparation does not take much time. In addition, a cooked product is more easily absorbed by the body.
Mushroom soup with vegetables
1900 g45 minutes
champignons (raw)
0.5 kg
salt, spices, herbs
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Peel, wash and chop mushrooms and vegetables.
- Boil water and throw vegetables and mushrooms into it and cook for 20 minutes.
- At the end of the dish, add salt and toss spices, add oil.
- Grind the soup with mashed blender.
- Sprinkle the finished dish with herbs.
Important! You can not include mushrooms in a mono-diet, because they are difficult for the digestive tract. It is enough to consume dishes 3-4 times a week.
Cream of mushroom soup with cream
3400 g50 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Peel the mushrooms and vegetables and cut them into cubes.
- Bring water to a boil and toss chopped.
- Bring to a boil again and cook over low heat until tender.
- Grind the cooked and cooled soup with a blender, pouring cream into it.
- Bring to a boil again, salt and add seasoning to taste.
- Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
Mushroom Cheese Soup
1490 g 55 min.
champignons (raw)
3-4 pcs.
salt, pepper, greens
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Peel and wash the carrots, onions and mushrooms.
- Grate carrots, and mushrooms - cut into small plates.
- Boil the water and toss into it the peeled whole onion and sliced cream cheese. Stir the soup periodically with a spoon so that the cheese pieces do not stick to the bottom.
- After boiling again, first put the champignons, and then the carrots.
- Cook for 15 minutes. Remove the onion from the soup and discard.
- At the end, the dish can be salted and pepper, and before serving it should be sprinkled with finely chopped herbs.
Did you know? In Japan, China, Korea, champignons are used medicinally for intestinal disorders, arthritis and bronchial problems. There is a whole about the beneficial properties of mushrooms - fungotherapy.
In a slow cooker
1850 g80 minutes
salt, pepper, greens
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Peel and finely chop the carrots and onions.
- Rinse mushrooms well with water.
- Cut fillet and spinach.
- Put all the ingredients in the slow cooker and turn on the “Soup” mode.
- When everything is ready, sprinkle the dish with herbs during serving.
Recommendations
Mushroom soups will be tastier and more tender if you add a little butter or cream to them. This will increase the calorie content and fat content of the dish, but increase its nutritional value. Such soup will be appreciated by not losing weight family members. You can also add crackers.
Any mushroom dish sprinkled with herbs will be even healthier and will not add calories. Potatoes are best replaced with less high-calorie vegetables and cereals (rice, buckwheat). Carrots, broccoli, celery, asparagus and spinach contain few calories and many valuable vitamins and minerals, which is important for various diets and proper nutrition. Meat should be taken lean, low in calories (chicken or turkey fillet).
Dishes are recommended to be made only from fresh champignons, since in the dry form there is no water in the product, and it is more high-calorie. When cooking diet foods, you should avoid the frying process, which requires additional fat.
Useful properties of mushrooms
- Mushrooms have the following positive effects on the human body:
- improve vision due to the presence of vitamin A;
- cleanse the intestines and liver;
- beneficial effect on blood vessels, reduce harmful cholesterol due to the presence of lecithin;
- strengthen immunity;
- are the prevention of cancer and diabetes;
- positively affect women's health and the nervous system due to the presence of folic acid;
- have a beneficial effect on the thyroid gland, thanks to selenium, which improves the absorption of iodine in the human body and positively affects the endocrine processes in the body;
- contribute to weight loss due to low calorie content;
- improve the condition of the skin and hair.
Frequent Use Results
Replacing the usual portion of the menu with a small amount of champignons (this is 160 g) will remove 2–4 extra pounds per week. Such a small volume will quickly satisfy hunger, give a feeling of satiety. The main thing is that after 30 days you don’t have to go out of the diet abruptly so that the lost kilos do not return.
Nutritionists recommend consuming no more than 320 g of mushrooms per day. When dieting for weight loss, you must drink plenty of plain water or mineral water without gas. To enhance the effect, it is recommended to stew, bake with vegetables or prepare soups from them.
Important! It is not worth consuming mushrooms for allergies to them, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and liver, especially at the acute stage.
Mushroom soups are healthy and low in calories. They can be regularly used for weight loss, if you use low-calorie types of mushrooms with vegetables and lean meat, minimizing fat content. Such dishes have a pleasant delicate taste and mushroom aroma.