Nothing helps out in the summer heat like recipes for cold soups. Fortunately, there are a great many options for how to cook cold soups, and therefore you can cook them at least every day.
The most famous and delicious dishes: Spanish gazpacho, Russian okroshka and beetroot, Belarusian cold brew, Swedish broth on rosehip, Thai chowder on coconut milk. Some of them are thick enough in their consistency, “a spoon is worth it”, while others resemble smoothies.
Recipes for cold soups can be divided into two main types:
– Which were prepared initially without heat treatment – raw vegetables, seasonings were crushed, poured, mixed. It is recommended to store them in the refrigerator for no more than a day.
– Which were first boiled, then cooled. If you cook on meat, fish or mushroom broth, then all the ingredients are cooked together. You can also boil some products, and use the rest fresh. Stored longer.
Such food is served to the table in ordinary plates or bowls. You can also pour it into a glass or mug. Aerobatics – to prepare an ice bowl is when two containers of different sizes are fixed, water is poured between them and all this is sent to the freezer. Then carefully separate the dishes from the frozen ice. It looks very impressive.
By reading the recipes below, you will learn how to properly prepare cold soups that both saturate and quench thirst, and refresh, and even invigorate. The preparation of such dishes is usually an extremely simple procedure, simple even for beginners (especially if there is a clear recipe with step—by-step photos).
I offer an unusual Spanish gazpacho. Instead of the usual – cucumbers, onions, pepper and garlic, tomatoes – I used apples with tomatoes! Gazpacho is a raw soup. Light tomato soup, sweet apples and green onions add piquancy.
It turns out to be an interesting soup-salad both in appearance and taste, which can become both a refreshing snack and a cool first course, ideal for a sunny hot day.
Very bright and refreshing soup! Besides, it is also very useful! After all, beetroot chips are much healthier than potato chips. But if you just follow a very healthy diet, then you can not cook chips, but just enjoy the soup!