the soup of western food is a highlight. In western eating habits, drinking soup before eating staple food can stimulate appetite, lubricate esophagus and prepare for eating. So many westerners think that this meal is incomplete without a bowl of soup!

1. Clear Soup

Clear soup, as the name suggests, is a kind of stewed broth, which is usually made from poultry, game, fish and vegetables by boiling, seasoning and filtering.

clear soup is divided into bouillon and consomme according to French custom. (The following Stock is like domestic Stock, which is generally made of bones and minced meat after being boiled for a long time and filtered, without salt, and should be diluted before eating.)

Brother

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Brother can be regarded as diluted stock, which is usually boiled with meat and can be drunk alone. Broth used to mean soup with meat or fish, but now it can also mean soup with only vegetables.

Consomme

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Add seasoning vegetables, tomatoes, onions, protein and minced meat (sometimes lemon juice or wine may be added) to a proper amount of deoiled Stock and stew it. Due to the addition of protein, it condenses into a white solid layer when heated, and also solidifies other suspended substances in the soup together. After stewing, it is usually filtered with coarse cotton cloth. Classic beef clear soup, chicken clear soup and fish clear soup.

2. Thick Soup

Thick soup, of course, is thicker than clear soup. It is usually stewed with cream, butter, tomato sauce, etc. There are two main types: Cream/Veloute Soup and vegetable soup.

cream soup

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Mushroom Cream Soup

A soup made of oily fried flour with milk, Consomme, cream and some condiments, based on which fish, chicken and vegetable paste can be made into different kinds of cream soups, such as mushroom cream soup and Vegetable Cream Soup.

some time ago, Xiao bian attended a dinner party and drank a thick soup called cappuccino mushroom. The thick foam and the fresh fragrance of mushrooms matched perfectly! At that time, it was also equipped with a Tempranillo dry red, which was so delicious that it flew! ?

vegetable soup

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vegetable soup is super healthy! In addition to vegetables, a proper amount of cream or tomato will be added at the end to make the soup more concentrated, so it is rich in vitamins and nutrients.