A few years ago, I read a recipe for a vegetable soup (belive it contained cabbage, onions, beans, etc.)…it was basically an italian minestrone, without pasta. The idea was that you ate this soup for lunch and dinner, and it would fill you up and suppress your apetite.
Does anybody know the recipe?
Thanks in advance.
My mom used to make this; though I wasn’t dieting, I liked it pretty well. Seems to me like it’d be super-easy to recreate, simply by making a minestrone and leaving out the pasta. Something like this:
-1 tablespoon oil
-1 onion
-2 stalks celery
-1 green pepper
Saute all this together. Add lots of herbs (thyme, oregano, basil, marjoram, rosemary, and parsley), as well as black pepper and 1 tsp salt. Add:
-4 cloves garlic
-2 carrots, sliced (if you’re a carbophobe, leave these out, but that’d be sad)
Saute some more. Add:
-2 28 oz. cans crushed tomatoes
-1 glass red wine
-2 28 oz. cans water
Simmer until tasty. Add:
-2 cups shredded cabbage
Simmer until the cabbage is cooked, but not overcooked (if you let it overcook it’ll turn skunky).
Eat with a grilled cheese sandwich. Oh, wait, you’re dieting. Eat it with a rice cake.
Would that work? It’s pretty close to my regular vegetable soup recipe.
Daniel
Are you referring to the famous Cabbage Soup Diet?
“Negative Calorie” claims aside, I’ve heard it’s a pretty decent soup if you’re not forced to eat it all the time.
It gets over 100,000 hits on google. I don’t know if all the recipes are the same though.
It’s the Sacred Heart Soup, though it has fewer actual sacred hearts than I like in my soup.