Low calorie healthy broccoli soup

This simple and low calorie recipe is a whiner winner broccoli dinner

 

Ingredients

  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 2 sticks of celery
  • 400 g broccoli
  • ½ a bunch of fresh mint
  • olive oil
  • 1 litre chicken or vegetable stock cube , organic if you can afford
  • ricotta cheese

How to make it 

  1. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Trim and roughly chop the celery and broccoli.
  2. Pick the mint leaves, then finely chop most of them, saving a few baby leaves to garnish.
  3. Heat a splash of oil in a pan, then soften the garlic and celery for about 2 to 3 minutes, then add the broccoli and stock.
  4. Continue cooking for another 5 minutes, then blitz with a handful of mint in a food processor.
  5. Season and serve, then crumble over the ricotta and scatter with the reserved mint leaves.