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.
Porridge of lentils and rice with mushrooms – a simple dish, delicious, nutritious, and also very useful. It has an interesting taste with a piquant zest due to the addition of cumin. You can serve this dish as an independent dish, or with various snacks. It is prepared very quickly and will diversify your menu!
This recipe for me is just a lifesaver in those cases when you need to prepare a snack in a hurry. The main thing is that there are loaves of bread, and a suitable filling. Fast, simple and delicious! By the way, it is not necessary to use the filling that I indicated, you can use the one that you like. The main thing here is the idea!
Guvech is a simple and hearty dish, it can be served either independently or as a side dish. The dish belongs to the Moldavian, Bulgarian and Romanian cuisine. Guvech is prepared both with meat and only from vegetables. Today I offer a lean version with beans and rice. Vegetables can be combined to taste.
Bigos is a dish typical for many European cuisines: Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian, German. As a rule, this is a combination of stewed sauerkraut with meat. The idea of cooking bigos with buckwheat was given to me by Zhenya Klopotenko. But my husband does not like sauerkraut in any heat treatment. So I got out of it with a fresh one. It turned out very tasty. I recommend it to everyone
A wonderful dish in the days of Great Lent-light, but satisfying, from simple and affordable products. Rice saturates, and juicy pieces of eggplant add flavor, making it delicious. Rice with spicy eggplant can be served as an independent dish, and as a side dish to meat.
Pilaf with wild mushrooms (buttermilk, aspen and porcini mushrooms)is a great alternative to traditional pilaf during lent. Very nutritious and flavorful.
This is my second recipe with the Jamaica Jerk marinade – the first was pork. Let me remind you that it is based on a combination of herbs, soy sauce and spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and cayenne pepper. For chicken, the spice composition is slightly different, but the main components remain unchanged.