Light meals offer diverse nutritional profiles through global soup varieties, healthy dressing formulations, and creative salad meal preparation.
Cream of mushroom soup features a creamy base flavored with pieces of button mushrooms, although it can be made with any type of mushroom. You may find it condensed or ready to serve in your grocery store, or you can make it at home.
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Eat at a Japanese restaurant and you will likely get a bowl of miso soup with your meal. This hot soup pairs a Japanese soup stock called dashi in which you dissolve miso, a fermented bean paste, with bits of tofu, chopped scallion and sometimes seaweed or kelp.
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Egg drop soup is a classic Chinese dish containing chicken broth flavored with ginger and soy and thickened with cornstarch. To make the soup at home, pour beaten eggs into heated broth to produce light strings of cooked egg. Top the soup with chopped scallions.
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The multiple types of lentils, which include black, green and red lentils, can be used to make dozens of different lentil soups. One popular recipe variation for lentil soup from LIVESTRONG.COM's MyPlate calls for chicken or vegetable broth and olive oil combined with lentils, celery, onion and carrots.
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