S-S-S-Spicy Zucchini Soup with Rice & Lime

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Who says you can’t have soup in the summer ? A great low fat soup that is not too heavy but it still eats like a meal. Spice this one up nicely and you will be sweating for sure!

2 Tbs vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1-2 Tbs mild red chili powder
1/4-1/2 tsp ground cumin
6 1/4 cups chicken, vegetable, or beef stock
2 zucchini, cut into bit-size pieces
4 Tbs cooked rice
salt and pepper
fresh oregano sprigs, to garnish
lime wedges, to serve

1 Heat the oil in a heavy-bottom pan. Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes, or until softened and just beginning to change color. Add the chili powder and cumin and cook over medium-low heat for 1 minute.
2 Stir in the stock, zucchini, and rice, then cook over midium-high heat for 10 minutes or until the zucchini are just tender and the rice is cooked through. Season the soup to taste with salt and pepper.
3 Ladle into soup bowls, then garnish, with oregasno sprigs and serve with lime wedges.

Servings: 4
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Nutrition Facts

Serving size: 1 serving

Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.


Amount Per Serving		% Daily Value
Calories		98.00
Calories From Fat (61%)		59.94

Total Fat 7.00g		11%
Saturated Fat 1.00g		5%
Carbohydrates 8.00g		3%
Sugar 1.00g
Net Carbohydrates 8.00g
Protein 2.00g		4%

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4 Responses to “S-S-S-Spicy Zucchini Soup with Rice & Lime”

Tamsyn on July 18th, 2007 at 4:09 am

Yum! It’s winter down here, but I still want to try that one. Love the flavour of cumin. Thanks!

I’ve got recipes on my blog too if you’re interested. Just simple stuff that I can get at my local ’supermarket’ (nothing too tricky in outback Australia).
Jussi on July 19th, 2007 at 8:06 am

I’ve made some chili oil previously, but none of them are really worth mentioning… I feel there is lot less latitude with oil than there is with sauces of any kind. Well, I have a bunch of habanero’s in my fridge, so I’ll make something out of them, maybe some sort of oily -stuff.

BTW where do you get your nutriction facts? Or the % of daily values? I know one website where I can get the nutrition facts, but the user interface ain’t that nice. I’ve been playing around for year or three with an idea of having a recipe community, which would automatically calculate all of those, but it’s quite a lot of work to program it myself.
The Weight Loss Blog » Blog Archive » Weekly Weight Loss Ideas #2 on July 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm

[...] Chef Tom posts a recipe of a low fat zucchini soup that is great for summer and won’t hurt your diet. It only takes 20 minutes to make it, too. Delicious! [...]
Robert Mandrake on July 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm

Hi, it sounds great!
I can’t wait to make it.