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April 19, 2005
Lentil Soup
Bean soups are a great lunch to pack and take with you to work. If you have access to a microwave, you can have a hot, yummy lunch, with minimal work and relatively low calories.
I've been avoiding bean soups since I started CR because they have comparatively more calories, and less protein, than the more protein dense foods like eggwhites and dairy products that I've been eating. I have such low calorie requirements that I really have to make every calorie maximally efficient. But ever since I learned about rice protein powder, which combines with the beans to form a complete protein and dramatically increases the grams of protein per calorie, I've been experimenting with bean soups again. Here's my latest -- just a variation on a soup I used to make frequently in my lowfat vegan days.
200 g lentils
1 cube vegetable broth
1 tablespoon rice protein powder
the juice of one lemon
one clove of garlic (garlic powder is fine)
Boil the lentils for about thirty minutes or until they're at a tenderness that you like. Drain and rinse. Add to prepared vegetable broth, stir in rice protein. Add lemon juice and garlic.
Eat or save for later.
You could add an infinite number of vegetables to this dish.
310 calories for a very large bowl of soup. You could cut out the vegetable broth if you thought that made it too high in salt. 25 g protein. No fat, so the Zonies among us will have to add some oil, which would probably be delicious in the soup. I'll be eating an arugula salad with olives along with the soup for lunch.
Black bean soup recipe to follow... watch out for jalepenos!
Posted by april at April 19, 2005 7:01 AM
Comments
sounds yummy! where do you get rice protein powder?
Posted by: Emma at April 19, 2005 9:13 AM