Thermomix Soups – The Best Kept Secret of Dieting – Part 2

Ever since I saw my first Thermomix demonstration, I have been delighted with My Best Friend in the Kitchen and an Extra Pair of Hands in my Kitchen. Far from being its only function, however, Thermomix blended soups are one of the easiest, most efficient things you can do with a Thermomix. And ever since the BBC scientifically proved that blended soups keep you feeing fuller longer, I am making myself a thick, blended Thermomix soup every day for lunch. And feeling full and satisfied until dinner time!

Thermomix soup recipes abound in both cookbooks and on the web, and I refer to them often. But when I’m making a small soup for just me, I make what my Mom used to call Refrigerator Soup. This means that I open the fridge door, have a rummage around the vegetable drawers, and see what treasures I can find for my soup. I find my inspiration in my drawers, as it were.

Refrigerator Soup has the added benefit of clearing out bits that are perhaps past their very best but still usable with a bit of trimming. I absolutely hate waste, wasted food especially, so if I can peel an extra bit off a carrot or chop out a chunk of courgette and save the soup, I’m happy.

Today my treasure trove yielded one third of a courgette (that’s a zucchini, if you’re wondering, dear US readers) and three carrots, one with a few bits to be cut out. I grabbed an onion and a pat of butter and there was my soup. (Delicious, I might add.) Yesterday it was six big mushrooms and a handful of slightly brown coriander. Monday it was carrots, chilli and ginger. Yum. Big yum, in fact.

So why is the Thermomix so good at making blended soups? Quite simply, because the soup is made from start to finish in just one bowl with one blade. No accessories, no extra sauté pans or stock pots. No risky transferring of boiling hot soup from a pot to a blender. Just chop your veg a few seconds (usually about 5) in the Thermomix bowl, add oil or butter, sauté (in the same Thermomix bowl), add stock or water and a stock cube and cook in that very same Thermomix bowl, and then blend – you guessed it, in the same Thermomix bowl. And Thermomix is so clever; it has a soft start when it blends hot liquids – a fantastic safety feature that ensures no hot soup flies out the top of the blender to burn you.

Oh yes. And once you’ve poured out your delicious, thick blended Thermomix soup, just add a little water and a drop of washing-up/dish washing liquid to the Thermomix bowl and whizz for a few seconds and voilà – Thermomix cleans itself!

In addition to creating fast and easy, healthy dishes for you and your family and to cleaning itself, Thermomix also saves you time by doing the cooking and stirring for you. So you can get on with the more important things in life.