Spinach and Mint Soup

Making soups regularly is a great way to get a lot of vitamins and minerals into your system and to help you lose weight/keep it off. But sometimes they can be a faf and the time it takes/the mess it makes, makes it feel unappealing. This spinach and mint soup is seriously easy to make as well as tasty and healthy.

Ingredients – Spinach and Mint Soup;

2 onions
2 leeks
3 stalks celery
Whole bag of spinach
3 cloves garlic
Thumb size piece of ginger
Bag of mint
Veg stock cube

Cooking;

Roughly chop the onions, leeks and celery and sweat off on low heat in a large pot. (It needs to be large, you will see why when you try to add the spinach later!) Cook for 5-10 mins until softened. While that sweats down finely chop the garlic and ginger, add to the pot and cook for a further 2/3 mins. Then add the stock cube and about a pint of water (add more or less water depending on how thick you like your soup).
Bring it to the boil and then turn down to a simmer and cook for a further few minutes. Then add the spinach. Depending on how big your pot is you won’t get it all in at once but it only takes a matter of seconds to wilt so just keep stirring and adding until it’s all in. Cook for a minute or so until all the spinach is fully wilted. Then turn off heat and let it stand for a minute. While this is happening roughly chop the mint and add it to the dish. Give it a stir then blitz with either a hand blender or food processor. I like to keep some texture rather than blitzing to totally smooth but that’s up to you.

Experiment

Don’t be tied down to this exact recipe. If you don’t have leeks, don’t worry just use extra onions and celery. You can use watercress rather than spinach if you want. Or even cabbage would work. You could also add some lentils or beans if you want to make it more of a complete meal. Feel free to experiment and use up what you have. The mint is what really makes the dish though, so I would recommend keeping that.

Conclusion – Spinach and Mint Soup

This soup is delicious, packed full of nutrients, low in calories and easy to make. It ticks all the boxes so give it a go!