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Cream of Spinach Soup

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup vegetable broth
  • 4 cups fresh spinach or 2 cups frozen or canned spinach
  • 3 cups 2% milk (or 1%, or skim)
  • 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • 3 tablespoons wheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Jamaican pepper or black pepper
  • thyme to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • garlic and onions if desired
  • 2 tomatoes cut in cubes
  • basil to taste

Directions:     

  1. Wash the spinach well.
  2. Cook the spinach in the vegetable broth with salt and thyme to taste.
  3. Meanwhile, in separate sauce pan, mix the milk, parmesan cheese, flour, salt, pepper and take to a boil until thickened.
  4. Blend in the blender all the above.
  5. Cut the fresh tomatoes into cubes and slice the basil really thin. Add this to the above mixture.
  6. Serve it warm.

Servings:
4 servings

 

 

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size about 1.5 cup
Servings Per Recipe 4

Amount Per Serving

Calories 136

Total Fat* 4.1g

Saturated Fat 2.2g

Cholesterol 14.6 mg

Total Carbohydrate 17.4g
(after subtracting fiber = 13.5g)

Dietary Fiber 3.9g

Sugars 11g

Protein 8.7g

Sodium 676mg

 

Exchanges per Serving
1 Milk
1 Fat
1 Vegetable


1 Carbohydrate Choice


   

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