It's no secret that children (and many adults) do not really like to eat soups - they always catch something from there, lay them on the edges of the plates, in a word - pick them. And to eat dry food all the time is also not a thing! But there is a great way to make almost any soup - vegetable or other - surprisingly tender, tasty. And, I assure you, from such a soup you can’t drag not only children over your ears - you yourself will eat it with pleasure!
What is the secret, you ask? But there is no secret - you just need to cook the soup in the form of mashed potatoes or, if you want, cream (the only exception is borsch, from my point of view it is unacceptable to turn it into mashed potatoes, apart from of course toothless kids and those who need to grind any food).
How to make cream soup? Yes, as easy as shelling pears! This is done with the help of a blender in seconds, but if this unit is not at hand, then a regular sieve will fit, through which you will need to pass well-boiled ingredients (of course, the process will turn out to be more time-consuming, but not in all cases).
I will gladly share some recipes with you.
Mashed potato soup
The easiest and most affordable cream soup in cooking is mashed potato soup. There are many options for how to cook it: it can be purely vegetable (vegetarian, so to speak), and it can be cooked in meat or chicken broth. But in any case it will be delicious - that's for sure!
To make mashed potato soup you will need: potatoes, onions, carrots, butter, cream, fresh herbs. If you decide to cook on meat broth, then, accordingly, you need to cook meat on the bone or chicken in advance, strain the broth, finely chop the boiled meat and set aside for now (since you will add it to the plates immediately before serving).
So, if we cook on the broth, then we cook the peeled and cut into quarters potatoes in the broth until ready, if you digest it - it does not matter, even better. If you make vegetarian soup, then boil the potatoes in water (do not forget to only salt closer to the middle of cooking). You should not pour a lot of water for the soup in the pan: calculate approximately how many servings you need to get at the output, so that in the end your soup will not turn out to be too liquid. Such soups for the future do not weld, but be sure to count on one and a half or two servings for the supplement.
While the potatoes are being cooked, finely chop the onions, pass the carrots through the grater, and pass them in butter (it is also possible in vegetable, if the soup is vegetarian, but it will be tastier on the cream).
After the potatoes are well cooked, you can do the following: put it in a blender with a small amount of broth, add warmed cream (a glass) there, grind it into a cream, add onions and carrots softened in butter, and turn them until a smooth creamy mashed potato is served. If the capacity in the blender is small, then divide the “dry part of the soup” (boiled potatoes and stewed vegetables) into two parts and mix with broth and cream in two passes.
If there is no blender, then it is better to boil carrots with potatoes until cooked. In the future, take a sieve with a rather large mesh and well-boiled and already slightly crushed vegetables in the broth, wipe with soft onions (all this must be done so that the broth seeps through the sieve, as it were). Then add cream, stir well - done!
Pour mashed potato soup into plates, add pieces of meat, allspice, ground pepper. And be sure to sprinkle with fresh dill and other favorite herbs! Indescribable goodies!
I also recommend that you prepare pea cream soup with smoked meats in the form of cream soup .
Rinse the dried peas thoroughly and soak for several hours, changing the water from time to time. Then, for 45 minutes or an hour, thoroughly boil it in the broth, where smoked pork or beef ribs or smoked chicken were boiled before (throw a bay leaf at the end of cooking). Yes, until the peas are thrown, the meat must be taken out of the broth, removed from the bones, finely chopped and set aside for now.
Spare vegetables (onions and carrots) in vegetable oil and add to a pan with boiled peas, bring to a boil again. If the peas are boiled very well, then it is enough just to “mash” it directly in the pan. But if you want to get a completely uniform consistency (just like cream soup), then mix with a blender.
Add pieces of smoked meat to the prepared soup and pour on plates, garnishing with dill greens! It’s good to add croutons of white bread. The aroma from this still steaming soup flutters! And the taste is incomparable!
Enjoy your meal!