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Spinach Soup with Feta Cheese
Spinach, a fortifying and invigorating vegetable, full of strength and abundant with minerals and vitamins, is the best support to mother nature in maintaining health and wellbeing. It is also an ideal main ingredient in this soup. Adding feta cheese provides extra charm.
| Preparation time | 40 min |
|---|---|
| Demanding |  |
| Energetic value | 273 kcal / 1141 kJ |
| Table of nutritive values | |
Ingredients
 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 30 g | butter |
| 80 g | onion, chopped |
| 2 | garlic cloves, crushed |
| 1 l | water |
| 1 kg | potato, cubed |
| 1 teaspoon | lemon rind |
| 1 tablespoon | Vegeta Chicken Stock Powder |
| 600 g | frozen spinach |
| salt | |
| 100 ml | cooking cream |
| Serving: | |
| 150 g | feta cheese |
Preparation
- Cook the onion and garlic in hot butter.
- Cover with 1L water and add the potato, lemon rind and Vegeta Chicken Stock Powder. Cook for 15 minutes, or until the potato softens.
- Let the potato cool and chop finely in the food processor or using electric beaters. Return to the soup.
- Bring the soup to the boil.
- Add in the frozen spinach, salt and cook another 10 minutes.
- Just before the soup is complete add in the cooking cream.
Serving
Serve with broken up feta cheese.
Tip
For this recipe fresh spinach can also be used. In this case cut the spinach leaves roughly, bring to boil, drain and chop finely in the food processor and add to the potato.
Nutritional information
Energetic and nutritional values are calculated per serve.
| Nutrient | Unit of measurement | Quantity | RDA (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women* | Men* | |||
| Total proteins | g | 6,24 | - | - |
| Total carbohydrates | g | 40,76 | - | - |
| Total fat | g | 10,73 | - | - |
| Diet fibres | g | 6,20 | - | - |
| Cholesterol | mg | 33,04 | - | - |
| Vitamin A | IU | 6228,97 | 156 | 125 |
| Niacin | mg | 4,06 | 29 | 20 |
| Vitamin C | mg | 24,08 | 32 | 27 |
| Vitamin D | IU | 11,64 | 6 | 6 |
| Calcium | mg | 154,27 | 15 | 15 |
| Phosphor | mg | 131,46 | 16 | 16 |
| Potassium | mg | 844,37 | 23 | 23 |
| Sodium | g | 0,44 | 0 | 0 |
* RDA is based on daily intake for women of 2000 kcal, for men 2900 kcal, from 25 to 50 years of age. (Data source: DRI reports - Macronutrients, Elements, Vitamins, www.nap.edu; Genesis R&D and Podravka d.d.)
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