Cream soup - general principles and methods of preparation
Cream soup is a kind of mashed soup, so their recipes have little difference. The main feature of the cream soup is that it is made using cream or milk. Otherwise, the principles of preparation remain the same: to prepare a cream soup, we boil and grind vegetables or other products, then dilute them with broth, milk or cream.
It is clear that for the preparation of cream soup use products that can be crushed to a puree state. For example, meat cream soup is made from tender chicken meat. Supplementing it with almonds or ginger, you can get an unusually tasty dish. Mushroom cream soup is also popular, for the preparation of which you can use any edible mushrooms, for example, champignons or porcini. Mushroom soup seasoned with cream is very tasty and satisfying. Another famous cream soup is cheese, which is made from flavored cheese varieties.
Adherents of a healthy diet invariably prefer cream-soup made from vegetables. For its preparation use broccoli, potatoes, spinach, cauliflower, zucchini, tomatoes, pumpkin, corn, asparagus, peas, lentils.
Seafood dishes are also very popular. Shrimp, salmon, salmon, etc. can be used to make cream soup. You can also cook combination soups, for example, cream soup made from corn and shrimp. We will introduce you to some of the most popular and delicious cream soups.
Cream Soup - Food Preparation
Although usually the basis of the cream soup is one component, when choosing products for its preparation, you need to remember that because of one poorly selected product, the whole dish may suffer. Therefore, you need to remember the compatibility of products and their quality.
Cream soup - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Corn Shrimp Cream Soup
A delicious cream soup that will impress even the most demanding gourmets. You can cook it without shrimp, with crackers, because the main note in it still belongs to corn and its unforgettable taste.
Ingredients:
1.5 liters of chicken stock;
0.5 l of cream;
1 carrot;
2 onions;
1 can of canned corn;
400 gr. peeled shrimp;
0.5 tsp turmeric
1 tbsp. l butter;
to taste the salt.
Cooking method:
1. Grate the carrots and finely chop the onions, fry them together in butter in a deep frying pan.
2. Add the corn along with the liquid to the pan, simmer everything for about 10 minutes.
3. Then, in a saucepan, mix everything with cream, turmeric, salt and simmer for about 10 minutes.
4. Beat the soup in a blender until smooth, strain, add shrimp and boil the cream soup for about 10 minutes.
Recipe 2: Creamy Cauliflower Soup
Light, delicate and very healthy cream soup. Cooking it is very fast, but he will surely enjoy it even for those who are not a fan of vegetable dishes.
Ingredients:
1 head of cauliflower;
1 tsp bechamel sauce;
30 gr butter;
200 gr. milk;
a few drops of lemon juice;
1 pinch of lemon peel.
Cooking method:
1. Having sorted cauliflower into inflorescences, boil it in slightly salted water. Then we separate the 6 largest inflorescences, wipe the rest through a sieve or grind in a blender.
2. We prepare bechamel sauce, for which we mix flour, butter and milk, bring to a boil, salt, add lemon zest and a few drops of lemon juice, pour this mixture into a hot soup. Add the butter.
3. Before serving, put in each plate one of the inflorescences set aside earlier, and pour hot soup.
Recipe 3: Creamy Vegetable Soup with Cheese and Crispy Bacon
This soup also has vegetables - potatoes, cauliflower, leeks, which make it healthy, and bacon and cheese, which make it very tasty and satisfying. Therefore, such a soup is an excellent choice for a dining table.
Ingredients:
1 liter of chicken or vegetable broth;
350 gr cauliflower;
350 gr leeks;
5 potatoes;
1 grated nutmeg;
300 gr milk;
1 tbsp. l mustard;
150 gr. cheddar cheese;
200 gr. smoked bacon;
to taste salt and black pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into large pieces. We sort cauliflower into inflorescences. Leek is also cleaned, washed and cut into large pieces.
2. Bring the broth to a boil, then, adding prepared vegetables and nutmeg to it, cook under a closed lid for about 15 minutes on low heat.
3. Then grind the cooked vegetables in a blender to a puree state, mix it with the broth, heat it again, add milk with mustard and cheese. After pouring the finished cream soup on the plates, serve, putting bacon, grated cheese and sprinkled with black pepper in each sliced buns.
Recipe 4: Champignon Cream Soup
Mushroom lovers will love this recipe thanks to its delicious mushroom flavor.
Ingredients:
75 gr. butter;
1 cup culinary cream;
400 gr. champignons;
2 tbsp. l flour;
6 glasses of beef or chicken broth;
3 egg yolks;
several branches of parsley, dill, celery;
to taste salt, pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Finely chop the onion, fry it in butter until transparent in a deep frying pan, then add finely chopped champignons. Constantly stirring, fry the mushrooms with onions for about 5 minutes. Then, continuing to stir, we introduce flour and, pouring all the broth, bring the soup to a boil. Adding greens, not cutting it, but directly with the stems, we cook the soup for about half an hour over low heat.
2. Remove the greens and pour the broth through a sieve into the pan. The remaining mass is ground in a blender and sent to the pot with broth.
3. Lightly beat the yolks, mix them with cream, and the resulting mass with constant stirring, gently introduce a thin stream into the soup, salt, pepper and heat.
4. We put the finished cream soup on plates and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs before serving.
Cream soup - useful tips from experienced chefs
To make the cream soup thicker (this task is especially relevant when preparing a vegetable dish), flour is added to it, previously fried in butter.
To make cream soup more satisfying, you can add to each plate separately sliced meat or fish pieces fried in a pan (depending on the compatibility of the products).
