Western soups can be divided into the following categories: clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup, thick soup, cold soup, special soup, local or traditional soup.

Clear soup is a fat-free soup cooked with beef or chicken or fish and vegetables.

Thick soup is a soup made by adding flour, butter, cream and egg yolk.

In addition to the main ingredients, soup often adds and embellishes some small ingredients on the surface of soup.

Basic soup meal

According to the cooking habits of western food, especially French food, first make broth, also called basic soup. The basic soup is to put animal raw materials rich in protein and gum into a pot and add water to boil, so that the nutrients of the raw materials are dissolved in water and become a soup with rich nutrition and delicious taste.

The basic soups used in western food generally include beef soup, chicken soup and fish soup. These three kinds of soups are made of beef and beef bones, old chicken and chicken rack, fish bones and fish heads, with seasoning vegetables (onion, carrot, celery) and spices (fragrant leaves, pepper seeds, thyme, etc.). ).