Delicious soups
can be as nourishing as the elements you put on the pot. Meat, poultry
and seafood provide the much-needed protein in both the broth and as
main or supplementary ingredient. Vegetables, herbs and spices
contribute vitamins and anti-oxidants that give soup its medicinal
properties. In fact, in Chinese herbal medicine, soup with special herbs
and ingredients are often prescribed to cure an illness or sickness.
Perhaps that's why chicken soup is often given to those with colds and
flu.
A good broth is made from boiling specific ingredients according to the soup recipes. For chicken soup, the cook boils either the whole chicken, its bones or just parts of the chicken. Vegetables are added into the stock for more savor. Same goes for making beef, fish and vegetable stocks. Other ingredients that can be added after the whole soup is made include pasta or noodles, common in Asian style soups.
While meat is popular in soups, there are also all-vegetable soups.
Try the Austrian cabbage soup, barley vegetable chowder (a thick soup
with seafood or vegetables), or the more colorful carrot soup or corn
soup.
Soup recipes also tend to be thin and watery. But if you want something a bit richer, try the thick and creamy soups. Examples include cream of cauliflower, artichoke, pea and vegan broccoli-cauliflower. There are also nut soups like the African peanut soup and the chestnut soup.
While soups recipes is usually regarded as hot and cooked in boiling temperatures, there are also cold soup recipes that bring the same comfort. But they are more invigorating because they are served chilled. After cooking briefly in heat, this kind of soup is allowed to cool because the flavors come out more in that temperature, as well as the ingredient itself. Classic cold soups are tomato or fruit-based. Try the blueberry soup thickened with tapioca or the berry buttermilk soup which combines the tanginess of both berries and buttermilk. The chocolate soup is pretty much like hot chocolate but this one is served chilled, fixed with dark chocolate, milk and cream with cinnamon for that special taste.
A good broth is made from boiling specific ingredients according to the soup recipes. For chicken soup, the cook boils either the whole chicken, its bones or just parts of the chicken. Vegetables are added into the stock for more savor. Same goes for making beef, fish and vegetable stocks. Other ingredients that can be added after the whole soup is made include pasta or noodles, common in Asian style soups.
Soup recipes also tend to be thin and watery. But if you want something a bit richer, try the thick and creamy soups. Examples include cream of cauliflower, artichoke, pea and vegan broccoli-cauliflower. There are also nut soups like the African peanut soup and the chestnut soup.
While soups recipes is usually regarded as hot and cooked in boiling temperatures, there are also cold soup recipes that bring the same comfort. But they are more invigorating because they are served chilled. After cooking briefly in heat, this kind of soup is allowed to cool because the flavors come out more in that temperature, as well as the ingredient itself. Classic cold soups are tomato or fruit-based. Try the blueberry soup thickened with tapioca or the berry buttermilk soup which combines the tanginess of both berries and buttermilk. The chocolate soup is pretty much like hot chocolate but this one is served chilled, fixed with dark chocolate, milk and cream with cinnamon for that special taste.
