17 Mar 2010

Soup lunch for diet

If you are on diet, why not take a vegetable soup for lunch as restaurants' food is usually high in calories.... Or even if you are not, you can add it with your usual lunch, so that you can have a full course lunch during the work lunch break.

It's not so difficult. When you cook a big soup for dinner, you can pack the left overs in a container and take it to work the next day. The ingredients absorb the soup stock with time to enhance the taste.

Ingredients;
-meat balls*-
minced pork
onion
nutmeg
salt
pepper
egg
bread crumb
-soup-
potato*
carrot*
cabbage*
boiled tomato can
paprika powder
consomme soup
rose marry
broccoli*
*Anything you like

1- (meat balls)Mix the minced pork with finely cut onion, salt, pepper, egg(1/2), nutmeg and bread crumb. Then make small balls. Fry 1 and keep it away.

2- (soup)Stir-fry the potato and carrot in the same pan and put the cabbage and 1 in. Add the boiled tomato, consomme soup, paprika powder and rosemary, then close the lid on and boil for 30 minutes.

3- Adjust the taste with salt and pepper.

4- Put the boiled broccoli on top of the soup.

You can add some colorful vegetables like broccoli on the top to make it look nicer.

I am using this practical container that hardly leaks any water but soup lunch is getting popular so you can easily find better ones that are cute or stylish in Japan.

Itadakimasu.