My favorite cold soup recipes come from Nava Atlas' cookbooks. If you're short on time, want something healthy to eat, and require lots of variation in your diet, I strongly recommend that you check out two of Nava's books, Vegan Express and Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet. In recent weeks I have made some of my favorite cold soup recipes from these books:
Cold Tomato and White Bean Soup
from Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet
This soup is one of my all around favorite recipes. It takes less than 5 minutes to make, is fat free and Eat to Live friendly, and tastes absolutely delicious. You can see the recipe by clicking here. The recipe calls for stewed tomatoes but I use Muir Glen Organic Fire Roasted tomatoes instead. I also use canned organic cannellini beans which have no salt added, or cook my own, as they taste much better than their non-organic counterparts.
Cool White Bean and Cucumber Soup
from Vegan Express
Cucumbers, radishes, and dill combine to make this soup amazingly cool and refreshing, not to mention beautiful. I love the colors in this soup. Photos just can't do it justice.
Nearly Instant Thai Coconut Corn Soup
from Vegan Express
Creamy and delicious, this soup will satisfy you if you're palate is searching for something a little sweet and a little spicy. You can see the recipe by clicking here.With all this talk of healthy soups, I must confess I have had a bit of a sweet tooth lately, so I'm ending this post on a very sweet and sugar sprinkled note. Ever since going vegan over two years ago I have managed to totally abstain from one of my favorite cookies: snickerdoodles. For whatever reason, my cravings got the best of me in recent weeks. Fortunately Celine at Have Cake Will Travel came to my rescue with a portion controlled recipe for Snickerdoodles, (click here for the recipe). Enjoy!
Snickerdoodles
4 comments:
I also took a long time warming up (ha!) to cold soups, but in the summer, they really are refreshing. I'll have to give the ones you mention a try.
such beautiful soups! I'm especially into that dill and radish bowl, yum!
I've never been too into cold soups, but they seem like a great idea for this time of year. All three of those look great, too.
i just posted a blog on this myself - i still am not a fan of 'cold' soups, but i like room temperature soups and maybe even the occasional 'chilled' soup. i'll have to try some of these!
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