How to cook soup correctly - 9 best step by step recipes

In the article, we will talk about how to cook soup correctly. The lack of the necessary qualifications leads to the fact that even a very good soup is reduced to the level of a tasteless and primitive dish. As practice shows, cooking excellent soup is not so simple. My article aims to make a difference.

The recipe for a delicious lamb kharcho soup

Kharcho soup is a very tasty dish that I cook according to the classic recipe. The main ingredient responsible for the taste is bell pepper.

IngredientsServings: - + 16

bow 2 pcs
lamb 600 g
water 3 l
rice 50 g
carrots 1 pc
sweet pepper 2 pcs
tomato 500 g
peppercorns 5-10 grains
bay leaf 2-3 leaves
garlic 1 pc
salt to taste

Calories and BJU per 100 gCalories: 42 kcalProtein: 2 gFats: 2.3 gCarbohydrates: 3.5 gSteps60 min. Video//www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MWSkEsZzU

I peel the onion, douse with water and cut into cubes. I chop the parsley and send it along with the onion into the pan.
I wash the lamb, cut into slices and add to the vegetables. I put the frying pan on the gas and fry until cooked.
Fried meat with vegetables, move the meat into a pan, pour water, salt and put on the stove.
I wash the tomatoes, cut into slices and make pasta out of them. Using a meat grinder, I make mashed sweet pepper.
As soon as the vegetables are boiled, I immediately add rice, pepper and tomatoes. I cook kharcho until rice grains are ready.
At the end of cooking, add bay leaf to the broth along with garlic and pepper. I cook another couple of minutes, turn off the gas, cover the pan with a lid and let it brew.

Simple Soup Recipe

A simple soup is the basic food that every housewife should be able to cook. It is not difficult to cook it and it is stored in the refrigerator for several days. Based on it, you can create a real culinary masterpiece.

Ingredients:

meat - 300 g
bow - 1 head
carrots 1 pc.
pepper, bay leaf, salt

Cooking:

I wash the meat and cut into slices. In most cases I use pork.
I pour water into a clean pot, put the meat and put it on the stove. I cook on high heat.
After boiling the broth, reduce the heat and make sure to remove the foam.
I clean the carrots and onions and send them to the pot to cook.
I cook for about an hour. The type of meat directly affects the cooking time. Boil pork and beef for 90 minutes. Chicken and fish - 40 minutes.
Periodically remove the foam.
At the end I put a bay leaf in the pan, add salt and pepper.

Often I serve simple soup as an independent dish. If you add a little greens, a boiled egg and croutons, you get a completely different treat. On its basis, I cook more complex soups using various ingredients.

Cooking Chicken Soup

Chicken soup is a quick, beautiful, simple, tasty and affordable dish. Any housewife will cook amazing chicken soup. For cooking, you need simple products that are present in any refrigerator.

Ingredients:

pure water - 3 l
soup set - 1 pc.
bow - 2 heads
potatoes - 4 pcs.
carrot - 1 pc.
vermicelli - 1 handful
dill, pepper and salt

Cooking:

I carefully wash the chicken soup set. Sometimes I use a duck for cooking. If I want a less oily soup, remove the skins from the set.
I clean the onion. I pour about 2.5 liters of water into the pan, put the chicken set and a whole onion. I put on the stove. I bring the broth to a boil, remove the foam and reduce the heat a little.
While the broth is boiling, cut the potatoes into strips or cubes. Processed potatoes must be poured with water so as not to darken.
I take the chicken out of the pan, separate the meat and cut it into pieces. As soon as the broth boils for about 10 minutes, I take out the onion and throw it away. I send the potato with chopped meat to a saucepan.
I clean and chop the second onion. After cleaning, I pass the carrots through a grater. Processed vegetables lightly fry in oil.
Add the fried vegetables to the boiling broth and cook for 15 minutes
I put vermicelli in the pan and continue cooking for about a quarter of an hour. Salt and pepper chicken soup a moment before cooking.
For a richer taste, leave it under the lid for 10 minutes.

Turkey soup

Traditionally, turkey meat is stewed or baked. Rarely, soup is made from it. If you don't like dressing soups, you can cook a light turkey soup.

Saturated low-calorie broth from turkey will warm in cold weather, clarify consciousness after a stormy party.

If the extra calories are not scary, add green peas, rice, noodles or beans to the broth.

Ingredients:

turkey wings - 600 g
purple bow - 1 head
carrot - 1 pc.
onions - 1 head
hot pepper - 1 pc.
tomatoes - 3 pcs.
salt, parsley, celery, pepper and garlic

Cooking:

I take turkey wings, carrots, onions, garlic, hot peppers, tomatoes, celery and spices.
I wash the wings well and cut them into several parts. I clean the carrots and chop coarsely. I chop the onions and celery after peeling.
Pour the crushed ingredients with cool water, add pepper and salt and send to the stove. After boiling the broth, I cook an hour on low heat, periodically removing the foam.
After cleaning, cut the onion in half rings. I chop hot pepper and garlic.
Medium-sized tomatoes are doused with water and passed through a grater.
In a preheated pan, fry the onions with garlic and hot pepper.
Add tomatoes and carcass for about a quarter of an hour.
I filter the finished broth through cheesecloth, separate the meat from the bones and cut it. Add stewed vegetables to the broth.
I send chopped turkey meat to the pan.
After boiling the soup, add chopped parsley and continue cooking for several minutes. Salt to taste.

Video recipe

Vegetarian Nettle and Sorrel Soup

For cooking vegetarian soup I use vegetable broth or water.

I collect nettles of soup in the forest. I do not chase after young leaves, since even large leaves after treatment become soft and soft, and the pungency disappears. In the summer I add some young potatoes and fresh herbs to the soup.

Ingredients:

fresh nettle - 1 bunch
sorrel - 1 bunch
potatoes - 3 pcs.
carrot - 2 pieces
bow - 1 head
egg - 2 pieces
salt, pepper, spices and seasonings

Cooking:

I peel the potatoes and cut into strips. I send it to the pan, fill it with water and put it on the stove. After boiling the broth, I reduce the fire.
While the potatoes are boiling, I prepare the vegetables. After cleaning, cut the carrots into strips, and dice the onion.
Before cooking potatoes, add carrots and onions to the pan.
I keep nettles in boiling water for a couple of minutes. After it is plentifully doused with cool water, chopped and added to the soup. I cook for about 5 minutes.
Cut sorrel leaves into strips, after cutting off the legs. I send the crushed sorrel to the pot and remove from the heat.

Video recipe

Cooking a summer dish with nettles and sorrel is not difficult. Before serving, I give the soup a little brew. In each plate, put a little sour cream and half a boiled testicle.

Dried Mushroom Soup Recipe

I decided to share a recipe for an unusual mushroom soup. I prefer to cook it from mushrooms, chanterelles or butter, which I dry on my own.

Ingredients:

chicken - 450 g
barley - 0.5 cups
dried mushrooms - 50 g
onions and carrots - 1 pc.
potatoes - 2 pcs.
flour, tomato paste, salt and pepper

Cooking:

Soak barley and mushrooms for the night in a separate bowl.
Boil the chicken until cooked, take out the meat, separate from the seeds and cut into slices.
In a pan with chicken stock I spread chopped mushrooms and barley. I cook about a third of the hour until half-cooked pearl barley.
I strain the water in which the mushrooms were, and pour it into the soup.
I cut the potatoes into thin slices and send them to the pan. To the salt.
I fry chopped onion in oil, add carrots and tomato. At the end of frying, sprinkle with flour, mix thoroughly and fry for several minutes.
I move the dressing with chopped meat into a pan and cook for about 5 minutes. I let it brew for a few minutes.

I pour the dried mushroom soup into a plate and add a spoonful of sour cream. If you do not like pearl barley, you can use millet, vermicelli or buckwheat.

Canned pink salmon soup

If there are many recipes for soups based on meat broth, there are much fewer fish soups.

Ingredients:

canned pink salmon - 3 pcs.
potatoes - 700 g
onions - 200 g
carrot - 200 g
pepper, bay leaf and salt

Cooking:

I douse potatoes with cold water, peel and cut into cubes.
I clean the onion and carrot. I chop the onion, rub the carrots on a grater.
Knead the canned pink salmon with a fork. I do not drain the juice.
I send potatoes to boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Then add carrots with onions.
I put pink salmon, a bay leaf and pepper. I cook until the potatoes are ready. Serving hot on the table.

Cooking video

What is easier than making canned pink salmon fish soup?

Simple pasta soup

For cooking, I use meat broth. If it is not, a vegetable one is suitable.

Ingredients:

meat broth - 3 l
pasta - 100 g
potatoes - 2 pcs.
cabbage - 200 g
carrots and onions - 1 pc.
garlic - 2 cloves
canned green peas - 50 g
dried basil - a pinch
salt and pepper peas

Cooking:

Finely chopped cabbage. I thoroughly wash the carrots and pass them through the grater.
Finely chop the onion, wash the potatoes, peel and cut into squares. I crush or rub garlic.
I send the onions with carrots to the pan and fry until cooked.
I pour the meat broth into the pan, add the potatoes and boil for about a quarter of an hour.
Add pasta and fried vegetables. Mix and cook for about 5 minutes.
At the end of cooking, add green peas, peppers, garlic, basil and salt. Mix thoroughly, salt and keep on gas for a couple of minutes.
Pour the finished soup into plates, decorate with fresh herbs and serve.

At first glance, the dish may seem a little strange, because canned peas in the soup are very rare. However, it is worth tasting one spoonful of refreshments in order to understand how tasty it is.

How to cook soup without meat

Soup without meat is ideal for people who are on a diet or fasting. It is believed that vegetable soups are less tasty than cooked on the basis of meat broth. I do not think so. Remember, for example, milk or mushroom soup. Each of these dishes is not inferior to meat.

Ingredients:

potatoes - 300 g
carrots - 1 pc.
cauliflower - 200 g
bow - 1 head
sweet pepper - 1 pc.
dill greens, salt, garlic

Cooking:

Cut into strips carrots, peppers and potatoes. I chop dill and onions.
Fry the onion in oil and add the carrot.
After a little stewing of vegetables, add pepper and carcass to the pan for 3 minutes over low heat.
I draw water into the pot, bring to a boil, salt and add potatoes with cabbage.
After boiling water, I put chopped dill with fried vegetables in the soup.
At the end of cooking, add garlic and pepper.

Low-calorie soup cooked according to this recipe. It is recommended for people who want to lose a few pounds, small children and adults suffering from diseases of the joints, liver and heart. Soup without meat is stored longer than treats prepared on meat broth. If you want to arrange a fasting day, cook this best vegetarian soup.

I tried my best to show how easy it is to cook really tasty treats.