Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner. Why not make it a soup-er bowl by cooking a hearty soup, chock-full of great-tasting, good-for-you ingredients?
Celebrate National Soup Month.
- Double up for more flavor and nutrition. Experiment. Combine two hearty convenience soups (canned or frozen) to create your own recipe, perhaps chunky minestrone plus beef barley soup. Find convenience soups with less sodium.
- Serve in a bread bowl. Hollow out individual round loaves (try whole-wheat). Fill with chunky vegetable soup or your family’s favorite chili.
- Make it heartier. Add frozen or canned legumes (beans, peas, lentils) and other veggies to convenience soups to step up the flavor, visual appeal—and the vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other phytonutrients, too.
- Get creamy with milk. Prepare condensed cream soups with milk (perhaps evaporated fat-free milk), not water. Anyway, milk’s calcium-rich!
- Garnish for flavor and more. Use shredded cheese for more bone-building calcium, seasoned almond slivers for extra vitamin E, chopped sun-dried tomato for a bit of beta carotene and lycopene.
- Take it up a notch. Spark up the taste with no-salt flavorings: hot sauce on corn chowder or chopped cilantro on tomato soup.
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