Soup can be tricky, especially if you’re trying to lose weight. There are so many delicious — and actually really simple — recipes out there, but they’re not always conducive to weight loss.
But it can be filling — it just seems to take up so much room in my stomach. Soup is one of my favorite cold-weather meals, and much to my surprise, my first Floridian winter has been cold enough to make me crave a good, hot bowl of soup. The black bean soup from the November issue of Cooking Light really hit the spot.
Black bean soup is one of those things I always to try at restaurants, but I can never get past the visual of the murky soup with the lump black beans. But these ingredients were all things I like, and I figured I’d really like it once it was pureed.
Actually, I loved it.
I followed the Cooking Light recipe, but I did not top it with chopped boiled eggs (that just did not sound appealing to me) and I used canned black beans that I rinsed (the recipe calls for dry beans).
Pureeing hot soup in the blender was tricky, because it recommends you put a towel over the blender’s opening. I had visions of my kitchen walls coated in brown goo, so I left the lid on, but the liquid did, in fact, overflow, because the steam couldn’t escape. This part of the recipe means this is a weekend or make-ahead meal for me, but it’s worth the time.
For some crunch, I counted out a serving of blue corn chips (I like the ones from Target’s Archer Farms house brand, with flax seeds in them).
A super cute serving vessel is optional, of course.
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January 6, 2011 at 1:04 pm
MelissaNibbles
I love the “serving vessel.”
I’m the opposite with soup. It never fills me up.
January 6, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Rose
I love soup, and this one looks great!
January 6, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Dawn Hutchins
I LOVE Cooking Light recipes. I’ve tagged three or four I want to make in the next two weeks. The Jan issue is so great too. This looks amazing! I love BB soup and I really like the idea of having the blue corn chips with flax. I’ll have to look for those!
January 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Lily @ Lily's Health Pad
Uhhh good call on not topping your soup with egg. That suggestion was just bizarre…….
January 6, 2011 at 7:01 pm
thecrunchfactor
love those archer farm blue flax chips too!