Soups how different they can be! And, indeed, as it has been done since antiquity, the first dishes are divided into cold and hot. Cold soups are prepared mainly in the summer period of time, when you do not want to take hot food and hot food on the street. Cold soups, which are often used as a snack, quite a lot. But the most popular dish, like our grandparents in ancient times, and today, is okroshka. Okroshka her recipe is unchanged for many decades, familiar to most residents of our vast Motherland. The composition of the okroshka includes products such as potatoes, eggs, herbs, onions, meat or sausage, cucumbers, both fresh and salty, well, kefir or kvass. It all depends on personal preferences here. Okroshka is a simple and affordable cold treat.
If we talk about hot soups. Then there are a lot of them. There is already a difference between fast or long -preparation soups. Easy hot enough soup with meatballs of this dish is on our website and in most culinary books. The highlight of this soup is exactly the meatballs. How such soup meat is not needed here. Meatballs are prepared from minced meat with onions. They are added to boiling salted water, where they are brought to readiness during the laying of all other ingredients. Depending on the type of meat used, shear soup can be both lean and rather high -calorie. Among other products, potatoes, onions and carrots are also used.
Another delicious dish for the first is pea soup. It is also served hot, and, as a rule, with croutons made of white bread. Preparation of pea soup takes a little more time than preparing a culinary brother with meatballs. This is explained by the fact that peas are cooked for a long time. Therefore, it is very important here, before cooking pea soup, soak the peas itself. Thus, the main component of the dish (peas) will be cooked many times faster. It is very important to prepare a meat broth to preliminarily. Who is on a diet, it is quite possible to use broth cubes or vegetable broths. But it turns out tastier, of course, on meat broth, and the aroma of the finished dish is more saturated. In addition to ordinary soup, you can cook pea in the style of puree. The soup is a pea recipe of which can be viewed on our website, it requires the use of a blender after all the ingredients are cooked.