Does Winter Season Prevent You From Filling Up on Your Salad Veggies? Here Are 10 Amazing 4 Ingredients Healthy Soup Recipes!

Here are some other benefits of eating soups and enjoying the cold weather:

• Soup is not only delicious, but is also a comfort food. They are easy to make and each sip of a steaming hot soup makes you feel warm to the core.
• Soup is very good for your health except the ones which are cream based. Most of these soups are loaded with vegetables, which provide your body with much needed nutrients and energy.
• They are the most affordable way of staying healthy and warm. You can easily use the vegetables that get limp after being in your fridge for a few days, put them together with different herbs and turn them into great a great cup of soup. Tossing them together in a pressure cooker and slow cooking them and get you delicious soup which you can serve with salad or bread.
• Eating a bowl of steaming hot soup before you head out the door in winters can keep you warm for a long time. You can also take it as soon as you come back home from a hard day of work and feel cozy. The ingredients like ginger, chilli, cinnamon and cloves etc keeps your body energized for a lot time, not to mention holding a steaming cup of soup in your hands brings the life back to them and gets you ready to do other work.
• Most of us tend to decrease the amount of liquids we need to take in winters and this is where soups come in handy. They help your body stay hydrated, as they have high water content.
• Soups are naturally healing due to the nutrients and essential vitamins present in them. The vegetables, herbs and spices together turn into a healing concoction, which is especially recommended by the doctors during flu. They also help manage the respiratory tract infections and ease sore throat, as well as clear the nasal passage.
• The best part of cooking soups is that you can make a lot of it and freeze it to be used later. Simply make your favourite soup on a weekend, freeze it and warm it up for the rest of the week for your family to enjoy.

If you are planning to feed your family soups this winter, then here are some tips on how to make perfect soup each time.

• Remember to gather all the things you need to make a soup before hand, in order to avoid spending time on searching for bowls, pots and spices when needed. This will save a lot of your time and energy.
• If you need to use cream in a soup, but don't have any, you can easily use a few tbs of plain yogurt instead. It will taste even better and will be lesser calories.
• If the soup you plan to make needs a stock base, try to make your own. You can buy it from the market, as well, but for a perfect soup a homemade stock is always better and healthier. The store bought stocks are loaded with preservatives and salt, and are also very expensive; while making it at home is affordable and you can make a good batch of it and freeze it to be used later.
• Don't forget to use a lot of ginger and garlic. They provide great smell and taste to your soup. They help in blending other aromas into the soup as well. You can also use a couple of cloves, if you don't like the smell or taste of garlic. Ginger tastes great with soups and a bite of ginger in a spoon brings instant freshness to the body.
• Don't cook soup in a hurry. A soup turns out best if cooked on low heat for a long time. The longer you cook it, the more flavour you will get from the vegetables and herbs used in it. Simply boil it once on high heat and let it sit on low heat for an hour or two, depending on the ingredients, to get great tasting soup with a professional texture.
• If you are planning on making a large batch of soup and freezing it, remember that if you add in pasta or rice in it it will turn mushy when thawed. Simply freeze the soup and add in freshly cooked pasta, noodles or rice whenever you reheat it for a fresh tasting soup. Also undercook the vegetables if you plan to freeze it, or they will get soggy when you reheat them and your soup will taste stale.