This month we have been all about the strong flavours but healthy choices. Glorious Skinnylicious Texan Four Bean Chilli is just up our street – Hearty and chunky full of beans, full of flavour and spice, yet low in fat (under 2% per portion) and low in calories (under 150 calories per portion too).
I like my soups to have plenty of texture – this contains rice and red peppers for an even more filling meal. Our kids thought this was a bit too strong for them but it was perfect for us to share. I’m trying to increase our fruit & veg intake so it was really handy that these soups count as 1 of our 5-a-day too.
Of course, you can’t have just soup on its own, I used this opportunity to showcase my Wholemeal Soda Bread Dipping Sticks. They are really easy to make, hardly any kneading and ready before you know it. Perfect healthy bread and mini sticks – perfect for dipping!
WHOLEMEAL SODA BREAD DIPPING STICKS
| Serves | 10 |
| Prep time | 15 minutes |
| Cook time | 30 minutes |
| Total time | 45 minutes |
| Meal type | Appetizer, Condiment, Snack, Soup |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable |
INGREDIENTS
- 250ml Milk
- 2 tablespoons White Wine Vinegar
- 250g Wholemeal Plain Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 pinch Salt
DIRECTIONS
| 1. | |
| Preheat the oven to 185C and line a large baking tray with baking parchment | |
| 2. | |
| Pour the milk and vinegar into a jug and leave for 10 minutes until curdled | |
| 3. | |
| In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, salt & baking powder – stir in the milk gradually stirring | |
| 4. | |
| Bring it together into a dough and knead for 1-2 minutes (You may need to add another tbsp flour if it is too sticky) | |
| 5. | |
| Roll out into a long sausage shape and cut into 1cm slices | |
| 6. | |
| Stretch out slightly to get even height and width sausages and bake for 25 minutes | |
| 7. | |
| Increase the heat of the oven to 200C for another 5 minutes to finish off, making them nice and golden | |
| 8. | |
| Serve immediately, dipping into soup | |
Ah, I’m such a big fan of soups. I eat home-made soup most days for lunch. Four bean chilli soup sounds gorgeous. x
I love homemade soups, but I don’t usually buy pre made ones. This looks delicious and even better that it’s healthy! x
I love soup, this looks really yummy and healthy. The soda bread dipping sticks look good too.x
This looks and sounds delicious, great that the soup is healthy, so much easier than making your own! I love a soup on days like today, the weather is horrible!
I do like the way that Glorious Soups are textured, so much more interesting that way. Your wholemeal soda bread dippers look perfect to go with that soup!
YUM!! I will have to try these breadsticks! Thanks for sharing:)
I eat soup quite a lot and I love the look of these dipping sticks! Thanks for the recipe!
I love the idea of these dipping sticks. My kids are pretty fixated with the idea that they only like tomato soup but I might try and tempt them with these to try some other soups. Thanks for linking up with #cookblogshare
Love the idea of dipping sticks! We’ve been going through a lot of soups lately with all the cold weather and the sticks would be the PERFECT thing to go along with them. Thanks for sharing!
This recipe sounds great & just what I have been looking for! We eat lots of soup during the winter here in Maine and I have been looking for alternatives to biscuits & rolls to serve with it. I am pinning this to try. I would love for you to share it at my Sunday Fitness & Food Linky
Texan Bean Chilli here I come this sounds amazing and I do like dipping sticks so this is perfect!
ooh I love the idea of this, we’ve been eating a lot of soups lately with this breezy weather, it’s the perfect thing to make you feel cosy and warm! x
Wow these look like good soups and at a great price too! I love the idea of bread dipping sticks, we usually have bread on the side of our soup but it always ends up going soggy and falling in if we do too much dipping :p !
This looks amazing – must start making my own soups
I haven’t come across this type of bread stick before but they look and sound delicious, it’s definitely soup weather!
Yum! Perfect soup weather right now and my kids LOVE dipping things into soup. I love the smell of bread baking but I’m too lazy to do it from scratch but I think I could handle this soda bread recipe!
I love the Glorious soups – one of my go tos for lunch in winter if I haven’t made my own. Soda bread dipping sticks sound amazing too.
Ooh, those breadsticks look amazing, I’m supposed to be cutting down on bread but I’m blatantly going to make those. You’re a bad influence 😉
What a lovely idea Helen, I love homemade soda bread and bet these are gorgeous with those lovely soups!
I LOVE Glorious soups! Especially their Daal. Haven’t tried this one so definitely need to get my hands on it soon! Soda bread is my favourite bread to have with soups 😀
I am a huge fan of Glorious Soups and love the sound of these dipping sticks. I might just have to get baking
I’ve never made soda bread but those dipping sticks look so easy to make (and yummy!)
soups are so good at this time of year, my little people llove them at weekends too.
What a great idea to make dipping sticks for the soup. I usually tear a piece of bread up and dunk it in the soup, but dipping sticks look far better. My daughter has suddenly started eating lots of soup so I will have a look at the Glorious ones for her x
Oh we love soup – this one looks so good – those bread sticks look delicious too. I have never tried this brand. Kaz x
I love Glorious soups, great for when you haven’t got time to make your own but want a healthy lunch – and the bread sticks sound so good #Joseph