Cream of beans and onions: excellent for losing weight, 250 calories!

During the winter, a good, warm velvety soup is always the perfect answer to every culinary need.

A recipe that lovers of this dish cannot miss is that of a cream of beans and onions.

Light, healthy and tasty, it is ideal for filling your stomach without weighing it down.

The ingredients to prepare the cream of beans and onions (the portions are calculated for 4 dishes) are:

• 500 g of canned borlotti beans
• 2 red onions
• 1 liter of vegetable broth
• 2 potatoes
• 30 ml of extra virgin olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 shallot
• 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
• black pepper
• 1 sprig of rosemary
• Fine salt
• 1 carrot
• 1 stick of celery

First you need to take a saucepan to heat our vegetable broth over a medium-high flame. After we can clean the carrot, potatoes, garlic, shallots and celery. After cleaning them, cut them all into chunks and set aside.

Then cut the onions into thin slices, after having peeled them, and immerse them in a bowl full of water.

Once these operations have been carried out, we can put the celery, the extra virgin olive oil, the garlic and the shallot in a non-stick pan and brown everything for a handful of minutes. Then we add the carrot, the onions and the potatoes and continue to cook. At this point we pour our broth and add a pinch of salt, the sprigs of thyme and rosemary, some black pepper and cover the pot with its lid. Let it cook for about 5 more minutes.

In the meantime, take the beans and, after having eliminated the excess liquid, immerse them in a pot with water. When they are soft we can add them to the other ingredients and continue to cook everything for another 10 minutes or so.

When everything is cooked and hot, it is necessary to blend the mixture until obtaining the consistency of a thick cream.

At this point, all that remains is to serve the soup on a plate and decorate it, if you like, with a sprinkling of chopped parsley.

Enjoy your meal.