2 Healthy Bacon and Sweetcorn Soup Recipes

Bacon is a guilty pleasure for many, but with these healthy bacon soup recipes, you don’t need to feel so bad about eating these delicious, low carb meals. By avoiding cream and simple carbs, these soups use bacon to add a strong, meaty flavour to an otherwise very light meal.

Healthy Bacon Soup Recipe 1

Bacon and Sweetcorn Soup
Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons – Olive Oil
8 rashers – bacon
1 – Large Onion
1 Clove – Garlic
1 tin – sweetcorn
1.5 litre – Chicken or Vegetable Stock
1/2 cup – semi-skimmed milk (instead of cream, to keep it healthy)
Salt and Pepper

Method:

Heat olive oil in pot.
Chop up onions and garlic.
Chop bacon in to small pieces, making sure to cut off excess fat if you want the soup to be as healthy as possible.
Add the bacon to the pan, and start to cook.
After 2 or 3 minutes, add the onions and garlic.
After another 5 minutes (until the onions start to go translucent, and the bacon starts to crisp), add tin of sweetcorn (or frozen corn).
Fry for another 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the stock to the pot and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
Turn the heat right down, and stir in the milk.
Season to taste.
Serve in a bowls.

Healthy Bacon Soup Recipe 2

Bacon and Lentil Soup
Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons – Olive Oil
1 tin – lentils (or dried lentils, soaked overnight)
1 tin – crushed tomatoes
1 – Large Onion
2 – large carrots
1 Clove – Garlic
1.5 litre – Chicken or Vegetable Stock
Salt and Pepper

Method:

Heat olive oil in pot.
Chop up carrots, onions and garlic.
Chop the bacon in to small chunks, removing the fat if you wish.
Fry the carrots, onion and garlic for 5 minutes.
Add the lentils, and tinned tomatoes.
Add the stock to the pot and start to simmer.
Simmer the soup for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Blend with a hand blender.
In a seperate frying pan, heat some olive oil and fry the chunks of bacon.
Add to the blended post, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Season to taste.
Serve in a bowls.

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