Soup is a liquid hot dish – the first course. Many varieties of soups have received independent names, some have retained the word “soup” in their name. You will find on our website many thousands of recipes for soups and hot dishes for every day and your homemade soup will always be a delicious dish.
Hot dishes are cooked in fish, meat, bone and vegetable broth, potatoes, pasta, rice, peas, buckwheat, beans and dozens of other ingredients are added. Fragrant spices and spices give a special flavor to the liquid dish, you can not do without fresh herbs. They serve it in a beautiful soup tureen, filling the plates right at the table.
Depending on which liquid is the basis for cooking, there are different types of hot dishes. In the simplest soup recipes, meat, fish and vegetables are cooked in water, but soups with beer, milk, fermented milk products, brine and vegetable juices are no less delicious. According to their composition, hot dishes are divided into meat, fish, vegetables, cereals, mushrooms, dairy, fruit, with dumplings, with legumes and pasta. Recipes for the simplest soups are vegetable soups, chicken soups with noodles, dairy soups with rice and pasta, potato and fish soups.
According to the cooking technology, it is possible to distinguish transparent soups, thickened (with thickening components), refueling vegetables, puree soups, fried (products are first fried, and then filled with water) and sweet.
Having mastered some culinary techniques, you will know how to cook hot dishes, and gradually adapt the recipes “for yourself”. The basis of a good soup is a rich and nutritious broth (meat, fish, vegetable, mushroom), which is an independent dish.
Our recipes with photos will give a complete picture of the technology of cooking these delicious dishes in different cultures of the world: French cream soup, Indian dal, Italian minestrone, Spanish gazpacho – recipes for delicious hot dishes are so diverse that it will take a lot of time to experiment.
Mashed potatoes are perhaps the most beloved and versatile side dish, perfectly combined with meat, fish and vegetable stew. And this versatility is a huge field for creativity: mashed potatoes with carrots, celery, onions, herbs, cheese. I suggest cooking mashed potatoes of French origin-Chantilly under a creamy cheese crust. Well, very tasty!
Duck meat is quite peculiar, with a peculiar aroma and interesting taste. Therefore, it is not necessary to score it, it is only necessary to shade them. A mixture of pepper and salt, pomegranate juice – this is more than enough. Especially with duck, I will serve quince with pomegranate-plum sauce. Perfect tandem, help yourself.
Simple, affordable, and most importantly, very tasty! I continue to introduce you to the wonderful Greek cuisine. Gyros is thinly sliced or planed (not in our case, but I will try to introduce another recipe) pork or poultry meat, very popular in Greece, and the ideal pair for it, of course, will be a Greek tortilla-lavash. Who is interested and those who love Greek cuisine, I invite you to visit!
Soft, fragrant, delicious… and many more epithets to this wonderful Greek pie, the name of which is LAVASH! It is eaten with meat, poultry, vegetables. Wrap souvlaki (kebabs), gyros (finely chopped meat) and kebab in it, eat just like that and with zajiki. What can I say, I suggest you cook with your own hands!
Just homemade borscht, without claims to uniqueness. Our family recipe, warm, cozy, warming. And as for the perfect pair for borscht, everything is clear and so. It’s lard!
Baking is always delicious, beautiful pastries are many times tastier… Therefore, I often try to surprise with modeling, sometimes thematically decorating fillings… How do you like these salmon pies? Fish pies? A great addition, an “ideal pair” for pies will be the preparation of fish broth “Rooster Ear”.
They say that the royal ear is on chicken broth, but with red fish, al sturgeon… Am I the king or not the king?! I thought… Of course not, I am not a king and not a queen, but with a “King in my head” – that’s for sure, oh, he does not give me peace, I often invent such things… Like, for example, today there are a couple of recipes for the “Perfect Couple” contest, you can judge what and how, and we have delicious, very tasty food, no weaker than the royal ones.
“Vrachanska salamura” is a very tasty and spicy soup of Bulgarian cuisine. There are two cooking options. One is served as a soup, and the other is more like a second course.
Dishes made from seasonal vegetables. The recipe does not use meat, but meat eaters will like it, because all the ingredients complement each other so perfectly.