This section presents detailed step-by-step recipes for tasty soups made from various ingredients, which even a beginner cook can prepare.
In most countries of the world, soup is served as the first dish at the table. It is a liquid food, consisting of at least 50% water, on which broth or infusion is prepared. Other liquids are also used for soups: milk for dairy soups, brine for pickle soup, kvass for okroshka, and quite unusual options – soups made with wine (bouillabaisse), with beer (elébrad).
We have compiled a selection of first courses – recipes for simple and delicious soups with photos for each step.
In global cuisine, there are about 150 main varieties of first courses, including about a thousand types of soup. Each of these, in turn, can have several cooking options. For example, there are about 25 recipes for cabbage soup, and borscht has even more variations.
Soups are prepared hot (borscht, solyanka, mushroom soup, etc.) or cold (okroshka, cold soup, etc.), and some of them can be served in both options – hot or cold (fish soup, gazpacho). In addition, there are also several differences in first courses:
This section presents simple soup recipes for every day. For convenience, they are grouped into sections.
How often do you relax in nature? You can be sure that such "getaways" are quite rare in most families. You can diversify family leisure with a dinner in nature.
In summer, we recommend making a cold beet soup with kefir and water. Cold soups are a hit during hot weather at lunch. Luckily, the selection of these dishes is not small: okroshka with whey, beet soup with ayran, Latvian auksta zupa, and cherry hideg meggyleves in Hungary.
Green sorrel soup with egg and chicken is a popular dish prepared at the beginning of summer when the "garden" season opens. Housewives who own plots of land and grow early greens such as sorrel or spinach often make this soup.
Pike perch soup is a dietary fish soup. This soup is suitable for lunch and dinner, it turns out hearty, tasty and fragrant.
You need to quickly make soup for lunch. This dish can be canned salmon fish soup with potatoes and rice. Such a soup can be cooked in thirty minutes, and it will definitely please all family members.
Beef Bozbash soup in Azerbaijani style with chickpeas – a hearty and rich dish of Azerbaijani cuisine. It is made with lamb or beef. Potatoes and chickpeas are also added to the dish.
To prepare a mushroom soup from dried forest mushrooms, you will need boiled forest mushrooms along with their broth.
Shurpa is a hearty soup made with lamb and vegetables. The soup is considered a dish of Central Asian cuisine, including Uzbek. Over time, the dish has become popular in other Muslim regions as well, and not just there.
Minestrone is a vegetable dish of Italian cuisine. Italian vegetable soup minestrone can be vegetarian, i.e., made only from vegetables. But it can also be made with meat broth and meat (chicken) added.
Rassolnik is the first course of Russian national cuisine. The soup is обязательно prepared with pickled cucumbers and the addition of cucumber brine. Rassolnik includes grain, which can be rice or pearl barley. The latter is the classic variant of the ingredients for this soup. A hearty beef broth is the right base for rassolnik.
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