Guilt-free Soup

Okay.  If you are like me at all, you are probably feeling like you ate a little too much over Thanksgiving.  Granted, it was fabulous, but it's time to spring right back into being healthy, or else you'll fall into the "oh, it's almost Christmas anyway" trap that I tend to fall into this time of year.

Good news: one of the most filling, healthy, and perfect-for-winter foods in the world is your good old soup.  A pot pot of soup is really just mostly water, and the rest is good healthy vegetables and beans to nutrify (yes, i did) your pretty little self. 

Ingredients:
-1 cup mushrooms, chopped
-1/2 onion, chopped
-2 tbsp wild rice
-1 tbsp dry white wine
-3 cups water or low sodium broth
-1 cup great northern beans, rinsed and drained
-1/2 cup frozen peas
-a sprig of a fresh herb (i used sage, you can use pretty much anything you like)

1.  Chop your mushrooms and onions.

2.  In a medium pot, spray bottom with non-stick spray, then saute onions and mushrooms on high.

3.  Add wild rice.  You can use whatever kind of rice you want, really.  Continue stirring until rice, onion, and mushroom are well coated with the spray.

4.  Splash your white wine into the pot.  Watch out for the steam!  Stir until wine has evaporated.

5.  Add water and beans.  Allow to come to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer until rice is tender.

6.  Add frozen peas and fresh herb.

7.  Remove from heat and serve hot. 

Mmmm.  Hot, healthy, packed full of nutrients and not a lot of calories! 

More soup recipes to come :)  It's my absolute staple during the cold midwestern winters. 

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