There are hundreds of thousands of recipes that have been with us for centuries, and that have been passed down from generation to generation. Among all of these, there is onion soup, a typical French dish that today we are going to learn to cook. The onion soup that we show in this recipe is indicated for athletes, since it is low in calories and helps us to be well fed, but with very few calories.
Onion soup is a typical dish of French cuisine and became popular for being nutritious, tasty and very cheap. Also, as the story goes, it is a dish from the time of King Louis XIV or XV. At first it was a more typical soup among the poor people of the French town and its popularity is due, according to the story, to the fact that the father-in-law of Louis XV, who was Stanislaus Leczinski, the Polish king, was going to Versailles to see his daughter and He stopped at an inn and there they served him onion soup.
He wanted to learn how to cook it, since the Polish King was a good cook. He decided to go into the kitchen and learn the recipe. It is a very typical autumn and winter soup that is served as a first course at lunch or as a single dish at dinner accompanied by bread and cheese.
The recipe is very simple, it has various ingredients, but surely they are all in our kitchen. Before explaining the recipe step by step, we are going to tell you some curiosities, such as why onion is so important to our diet, how many calories does this soup have and how to keep it in the fridge for several days.
Why is eating onion good?
The onion is a vegetable loaded with vitamins and minerals. A simple way to nourish our body and that we should eat regularly, since it has a multitude of benefits and important properties for our body.
an onion we Provides vitamins A, B6, B9, C and E, natural sugar, fiber and essential minerals such as sodium, iron and potassium. Normally the onion is usually cooked, but what few people know is that if we eat it raw we get all its benefits, otherwise, when we cook it we lose a large part of them.
We can put onion in almost any recipe or dish, including pizzas, scrambled eggs, salads, tortillas, soups, creams, empanada fillings, pasta, stews, meat, breaded, sauces, etc.
As we have already mentioned, the onion has multitude of important benefits for our organism. For example, it is very good for blood circulation, its fiber is of high quality, it is diuretic and bactericidal, it helps purify the body and promotes digestion, etc.
The onion is so good and nutritious that it can be included in the diet of babies from 6 months of age, and thus for a lifetime. When they are babies, it is true that they must be cooked a bit and then added to the rest of the food to create the porridge. At first we must use very little quantity and cook without salt, garlic, or oyster spices such as pepper.
The introduction of new foods must be done little by little to check food tolerances, possible reactions such as vomiting, hives, diarrhea, etc. Be very careful not to abuse the onion or serve it raw.
Easy and healthy recipe
It must be made clear that the recipe that we provide in this text is a version of the original recipe, since we are looking for an onion soup that is low in calories and only uses 100% easy-to-find and natural ingredients.
The original onion soup has gratin cheese and rustic bread. We want to offer these two ingredients as extra options as a side dish, since cheese adds calories and may not interest us due to health issues, physical objectives or whatever the reason.
In our version, only vegetable ingredients and extra virgin olive oil are used, and no butter, meat broth, flour or anything similar. The ingredients of our recipe are water, onions, celery, tomato, green pepper, turnip, extra virgin olive oil and salt.
A simple, fast, healthy recipe and the quantities are for two diners. If we want to make more, we just have to double the amounts of the ingredients and we will have for 4 people. If we have leftover soup, we can learn to preserve it in the next section.
How to keep it in the fridge
We always recommend that we do not do more, since in the end we end up wasting food and creating more waste. If we need to make a lot of onion soup, and finally one or two servings, or more, are left over, we are going to tell you how we can Keep it in perfect condition for a maximum of 72 hours.
The main thing is not to contaminate the soup, that is, to serve the soup, we must not use the same utensil that we have used to cook. Also, if we finally decorate the soup with bread, cheese, pieces of vegetables or something, we recommend doing it only on the plate, so we don't contaminate the soup left over in the pot.
Each food has its shelf life, and if we mix them for many hours, in the end the flavors settle and become stronger, creating mixtures that are sometimes not entirely pleasant, apart from the fact that bread and cheese last a short time, much less of this onion soup.
Something important is to follow a jar or glass tupperware with a hermetic lid. Add the leftover soup and store it in the fridge for a maximum period of 3 days. It should be said that we must wait for the soup to cool in the pot or in the tupperware before putting it in the fridge, so as not to create very sudden temperature changes, which is where microorganisms arise.
Likewise, when we are going to serve soup from the tupperware from the fridge, we must do it with a clean utensil and if we are not going to consume everything, we recommend not cutting the cold chain. For what we take out, serve and keep again tightly closed.
