If bread is the head of everything, then soup is the number one dish in the whole world. In the culinary traditions of each nation there is a national first course. The Spaniards have gazpacho soup. The Vietnamese have soup fo. The Japanese love miso soup, and French cuisine is famous for its legendary onion soup. And how not to mention the Ukrainian borsch and Russian okroshka!
The universal option for every day
Any housewife will surely have several secrets of cooking her favorite soups, which can make, it would seem, the same dish every time unlike the previous one.
Soups are vegetable and meat, hot and cold, liquid and thick - millions of recipes. And this is not surprising, because first courses are the basis of healthy and healthy food.
With soup for life
First meals you need to eat every day! According to experts:
- They have a lot of different vegetables, and these are vitamins, fiber and other useful substances.
- Soup can easily cope with your hunger. This means that the rest of the food you eat less. If you are unbearably hungry for something greasy and harmful, first eat a good plate of light soup. And in your stomach there will be much less room for fried pork.
- If you are on a diet, then you absolutely need a soup. With them you can satisfy your first hunger and stop needing high-calorie food and large portions.
- Light soups digest well and quickly. This dish is especially irreplaceable during an illness. A weakened body will require much less energy to digest food, which will allow to direct the released energy to fight the disease. And a full recovery will not take long.
- A plate of hot soup warms up very quickly on a frosty winter day or rainy autumn evenings.
- Cold light soups perfectly refresh in the sultry summer.
Useful Tips for a Delicious Soup
- For broth, try to buy meat only for young animals. Be sure to remove the skin from the bird.
- When cooking meat, drain the first water, then dangerous substances (antibiotics, for example) will not get into your broth.
- Never use rotten vegetables. If half the carrots go bad, donβt cut the rot, just throw it away!
- Cook first courses only on low heat. The soup should languish.
- Try to cook as much as your family can eat once or twice. It is undesirable to store soups for more than 2 days, even in the refrigerator. Because when heated, the taste of vegetables in the soup deteriorates sharply.
- Do not get carried away with spices. They can kill the pleasant smell of meat and vegetables.
- Add a little sugar to the vegetables, this will make them tastier. And if you put a little sugar in the fried onion, it will acquire a beautiful color.
- If you have salted the broth, take the rice, put it in a clean cloth bag and cook. Rice will pick up excess salt.
Cheap, cheerful and helpful
Fresh, hot, rich soup perfectly diversifies the menu and fills your diet with vegetables. After all, few people want to gnaw raw carrots or beets. But with the soup they will be eaten quickly. Just a couple servings per day - and the daily rate of vegetables will be provided to you.
Let's cook a delicious, light and healthy soup with cheese balls, which came to us from the Bulgarian cuisine. Many options for this original soup will surely please you and your family.
Lenten Recipe
Vegetable soup with cheese balls without meat is very simple to prepare, and judging by the reviews, its dietary composition is especially liked by girls who are worried about waist size.
To start, prepare the dough:
- Take a slice of any hard cheese (100-150 g) and grind it.
- Put the egg and butter in the cheese (butter, 50-100 g). Salt, add pepper and mix vigorously.
- Now take the flour (about 100 g, maybe a little more), add it to the cheese, pour the chopped greens there.
- Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator (at least half an hour).
While it cools, you can do the soup itself:
- Place a pot with two liters of water on medium heat.
- While the water is boiling, prepare the vegetables. Take 3-5 potatoes (depending on their size), peel and cut. Dice the potatoes into the water.
- For dressing, chop onions, carrots and bell peppers (preferably red, it will make the finished dish much brighter).
- Take a frying pan, add 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and stew vegetables slightly (5-8 minutes will be enough).
- Make balls from the dough and put them in a pan.
- Send the finished gas station there.
- You need to cook everything together, about 10 minutes on low heat.
At the end, you can add greens.
A fun option for the little ones
The recipe for a light soup with cheese balls fits perfectly into the daily children's menu. It is no secret that many children do not like to eat first courses. Prepare for them this funny soup, and they will not be able to refuse it.
Take all products from the previous recipe in the same quantity. Use chicken stock instead of water. Often children do not eat soup just because they have boiled or fried onions. Or they just don't like the look of a standard first course. Therefore, experienced housewives offer to use the following tricks:
- Put the whole onion in the pan with the meat, and when the broth is cooked, discard it. Next, do not use onions in the preparation.
- The soup is prepared in the same way as in the previous recipe, only at the same time as dressing, put a handful of curly vermicelli in the pan. It can be in the form of animals, stars, houses or letters. Your soup will become not only healthy and tasty, but also fun. Considering who got what figure, the children will not notice how everyone will eat.
A recipe with an unexpected ingredient
Soup with cheese balls and eggplant will appeal to everyone, but lovers of rich meat broths will especially appreciate it. According to reviews, it is able to cater to a severe masculine taste. And at the same time, you can make sure that the presence of meat does not affect the overall cooking time.
Cooking broth:
- Cut the chicken (turkey) fillet into slices and lightly fry, seasoning with aromatic spices (for example, hazel).
- Put the fried meat in a pan, adding bay leaf, bring to a boil and reduce the heat.
- When the broth boils, put the potatoes.
We make refueling:
- Grind all vegetables well.
- First, fry the onions and carrots a little.
- Next, put eggplant and pepper in a pan, then darken for another 5 minutes. Add spices if desired.
- Put the dressing in the broth, add the balls and cook for 10 minutes.
- Cut greens, crush a few garlic cloves. Dip the greens and garlic in the soup, close the lid and remove the pan from the heat.
Let the soup stand for about 5 minutes, and ... Bon appetit!
Soup with cheese balls and green peas
Soup can be complicated. There is only one permanent ingredient in this dish - cheese balls. And you can add vegetables that are in the refrigerator. According to numerous reviews, soup with cheese balls does not go well with beets and cabbage.
In this option, try adding peas. You can take a canned or fresh option.
Cook as usual. The only addition: add peas at the same time as dressing and balls.
Puree soup, cheese balls and cauliflower
Want to surprise your girlfriend? Invite her to dinner and cook the next version of the soup. Someone must appreciate this work of culinary art!
So, prepare an unusual version of Bulgarian soup with cheese balls, starting with the test:
- 5 large tablespoons of milk and 50 g of butter put in a saucepan, bringing to a boil. Add a quarter cup of flour and a little salt, stirring constantly. It is necessary that the dough lag behind the walls of the vessel.
- Now it is necessary to cool, add the egg and cheese, mix.
- Close the cup with the dough with foil and put it in the cold for half an hour.
Now go to the broth:
- Put a liter of broth or water on the fire. Pour 3 large tablespoons of oil (preferably olive) into a soup pot (large). Add chopped potatoes and chopped onions. Stew for 10 minutes, stirring surely.
- Pour in the broth and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add cauliflower (about a kilogram) and cook until tender.
- Mash the broth and vegetables with a blender. Add half a glass of cream, pepper and salt.
- Make about 20 balls from the dough. Fry a few in oil for 2-3 minutes. They should acquire a golden hue. Put the finished balls on napkins to remove excess oil.
- Fry 5 large tablespoons of almond petals without oil until golden. A few thin feathers of green onions cut very finely.
- Put the soup on the fire, let it boil and remove immediately.
Now pour the mashed potatoes on plates, put a few balls in each and sprinkle with petals and onions. You can add a few drops of olive oil for beauty. It is advisable that your friend see the process of decorating the soup itself. She will be delighted, and you will forever remain in her eyes a cooking guru.
Carrot Puree Soup with Cheese Dumpling Balls
Judging by the reviews, the cheese balls prepared according to the following recipe (photo of which you can see in the article) will delight you:
- 400 g carrots, potatoes, onions chop and fry in butter.
- Transfer the frying to a soup pot and add a quarter liter of white wine, three quarters of a liter of broth or water and juice from 1 lemon.
- Boil it all for 25 minutes.
- Pour 150 g of cream into the broth, add salt and pepper. Beat with a blender or pass the resulting broth through a sieve, making mashed potatoes from it.
- Bring the soup to a boil and turn it off.
Getting to the balls:
- Mix 200 g of curd cheese with an egg and your favorite spices. Add 50 g breadcrumbs and mix again. The dough is ready.
- Take 50 g of hard cheese and ham, cut them very finely. Add chopped greens to these ingredients. In this mixture, you will need to roll the balls.
- Boil water in a saucepan and turn off the heat. It needs to be slightly salted.
- Form balls from the dough, roll them in a mixture, crush the cheese and ham with your fingers to hold well, and dip in hot water. So they should lie for 3 minutes. No need to cook!
Pour the soup into plates. Remove the balls from the water and immediately put them in the soup. Garnish with small sprigs of dill.
Original green soup
Let's move on to the green soup with cheese balls. The recipe with the photo should inspire you to prepare it:
- Grate 300 g of hard cheese. Add the egg and 2 large tablespoons of almond flour. Can be replaced with sesame or coconut.
- Put half a small spoonful of psyllium (this is plantain seed flour).
- Mix everything, knead the dough and roll balls out of it.
- Onions, 1 stalk of celery, cut and fry peppers.
- Grind 200 g broccoli and 200 g spinach.
- Bring one and a half liters of broth to a boil. Put balls and broccoli in it.
- Cook for a couple of minutes.
- Then dip vegetables and spinach there, wait until the mixture boils and turn it off. No need to cook.
- Instead of salt, add soy sauce to taste and your favorite spices, put crushed garlic and herbs.
- Close the lid - the dish should be a little infused.
Experienced housewives advise, if you want to make this soup more satisfying, add green peas, green beans, boiled eggs, and boiled meat cut into small pieces.
Conclusion
Here is such an amazing first course came to us straight from Bulgaria. Useful for adults and children. Versatile, light, and most importantly, incredibly tasty! Be sure to cook it as soon as possible.