Autumn means one thing - vegetable soups. There is nothing better to celebrate this season than making a comfort vegetable soup with in-season products. How do I make it lighter? By steam cooking it!
Autumn is filled with delicious vegetables that can be used to create taste, in-season dishes. Pumpkin, the queen of winter months, and also artichokes, leek, celery and kale. A colorful mix to make velvety vegetable sups and pamper your flavour buds.
One trick to cook lighter vegetable soups is to steam cook the vegetables, an excellent way to resume our healthy habits after the summer.
The benefits of steam cooking
Out of all cooking methods, steam cooking is the one to prefer. Indeed, steam cooking is one of the healthiest around, as it allows you to cook the ingredients without adding any fat, such as oil or butter. When these two ingredients are heated, unhealthy substances for our body are released. With steam, instead, food is cooked only through the action of heat, leaving the other nutrients unchanged. The main benefit of steam cooking is precisely this - the possibility of eating cooked vegetables, while preserving all the vitamins and mineral salts they have.
Steam cooking vegetables - how?
The first step to create light Autumn vegetable soups is cooking the vegetables. Only when they are well done and tender, you can blend them with an immersion mixer, to obtain the perfect texture.
You don’t need a steam cooker to steam cook! The best option? A steam oven. You can use this function available in the latest ovens, such as H-OVEN 500 STEAM PLUS, which, thanks to its exclusive features, will help you make tastier and healthier recipes, with ease!
How does Hoover steam oven work?
Steam cooking in the oven will allow you to save a lot of time and optimize energy consumption. How does it work? Hoover steam ovens are equipped with a special compartment to add water to. Then, the oven will automatically select the “steam” move and use the heat to cook the food. With Hoover ovens, you can also monitor how your dishes are cooking, directly from your smartphone, thanks to the dedicated app.
To be sure to obtain professional results from your Hoover steam oven, just pay attention to correctly maintaining your appliance. For instance, by using Care+Protect oven degreaser, you can remove the dirt from all oven surfaces, even at room temperature.
The secret of a good vegetable soup is the way the vegetables are cooked. That's why the best trick to make healthy vegetable soups is to cook them in your steam oven. Now that you now the trick of the trade, you just have to put it into practice in the kitchen!
