Soups
Cold yogurt soup with cucumbers and dill
A refreshing soup to keep you cool during summer. This soup is one of our sister’s favorites. She just loves it. She’d have it for dinner or lunch, sometimes as … Read more
A refreshing soup to keep you cool during summer.
This soup is one of our sister’s favorites. She just loves it. She’d have it for dinner or lunch, sometimes as a snack when she’s not sure if she’s hungry or not.
We assure you, when we say our sister, it’s not a code for “us”. And we didn’t just talk in third person about myself. Because to be completely honest we're not the biggest fan of cold soups.
To us a soup should be warm. Even hot. As in burn our tongue, whine about it and then continue eating hot. Ok, we're lying, we're not a complete lunatic. Our point is a soup should be hot, without hurting you – it’s meant to comfort you and warm your heart.
Even though we hate cold soups, we must admit this one is quite refreshing.
So refreshing, that last time our sister made it, we even had a whole bowl, after we took approximately 3 million pictures of it of course.
Since we posted a few recipes with yogurt, cucumber and dill already, you’re now most probably asking yourself: “Is she trying to show us the million ways you can prepare yogurt, dill and cucumber?”.
The answer is maybe.
We did not make that plan, but this is definitely one of the many recipes you can make with yogurt, dill and cucumbers.
This way you can spend your summer rested, you won’t burst into flames and won’t swell up 10 sizes.
This cold yogurt soup is not thick, but it’s refreshing, filling and low in calories, therefore great if you’re trying to lose some weight.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS
There are tons of health and beauty benefits to this soup.
While being low in calories, it’s nutrient-dense. This means you get more nutrients, even though you don’t eat so much. That’s the dream.
It’s rich in that superhero allicin from garlic that fights cancer, bacteria, and viruses. And we read somewhere garlic is an aphrodisiac. Now we don’t know how that would work, but if you’re trying to seduce someone, doesn’t hurt to serve him/her this soup.
This soup has also probiotics, antioxidants and anti-inflammatory (under cover) agents. It is also gluten-free and grain-free.
Let us know if you make it, we'd love to hear if you enjoyed this cold cucumber soup!
- Yield: 1
Ingredients
- 1 cup probiotic yogurt (3,5 - 4%)
- ½ cup water
- 1 cucumber (or 2 small cucumbers), diced
- 1 garlic clove, minced (optional)
- 1 tbsp olive oil/ pumpkin seed oil
- 1/3 cup dill weed, chopped
- ½ tsp salt (add gradually to taste)
- Top with: ground walnuts or sesame seeds; optionally cumin
Method
- Whisk yogurt with water in a bowl until smooth.
- In a small bowl toss cucumbers with pressed garlic (optional), some salt, dill, olive oil. Then add to the yogurt+water.
- Top with some ground nuts/sesame seeds, cumin if you like and pumpkin seed oil. Salt to taste.
Notes
To avoid the taste of garlic, but add some of its flavor - mince garlic and let it sit in some olive oil. After 30 min, remove the garlic from the olive oil and add the olive oil to the soup.
