First courses are a necessary thing in our life, as nutritionists and gastroenterologists assure. However, recently the trend of abandoning them has been growing more and more. In many families, soups, borsch, soup and cabbage soup have not been on the tables for months. Remembering how much it is not good for digestion, the housewives try to return to their old dining traditions - at least with regard to children. Creamy soup, so beloved by the French and Italians, can seriously help them. New flavoring notes and the lack of boring and boring pasta in the dish may well instill in the younger generation a loyal attitude to the first dishes.
Meatball Soup
The meat balls floating in the broth are attractive to everyone. First, let’s try to make creamy soup with chicken, and we’ll make the broth for it and the meatballs from this bird. Suitable, for example, chicken quarter. Meat is cut from it and ground into minced meat, and broth is cooked from the seeds. In parallel, the onion is chopped finely, and the carrot is also rubbed lightly. Roasting is done - first from onions, then root crops are poured to it. Cubes of 3-4 potatoes are thrown into the finished broth (two liters). While the creamy soup boils, the meatballs are formed. So that they do not fall apart, an egg is driven into the salted and pepper minced meat, and everything is mixed together. At the stage of semi-finished potatoes, meat balls are laid. When they pop up, frying is added. After about five minutes, a glass of cream is poured. After boiling it remains to wait literally five minutes and carry it to the table, spilling on plates and sprinkling with chopped greens.
Creamy Mushroom Soup
Without mushrooms, few people imagine this dish. I must say, creamy soup with mushrooms can be prepared in a variety of different ways. Consider the simplest recipe. Three large potatoes are cut into slices and cooked with water literally a finger above their volume. Chopped onion stewed in vegetable oil. Next comes a glass of chopped champignons; frying continues until the appearance of the liquid. The potato is mashed, mixed with mushrooms and diluted with a half liter of cream. A few minutes of boiling together - and the creamy soup is ready to be taken orally. It is especially good with garlic croutons, for which coarsely chopped slices are first fried in butter, and then sliced bread.
Italian cream soup
After mastering uncomplicated recipes, you can go to more refined options. To prepare a creamy chicken soup in Italian, you need a rich set of roots: in addition to the usual carrots, you need parsnip and celery. In the total mass, all three vegetables should tighten by a third of a kilogram. They are chopped in cubes together with two medium onions and fried directly in the pan, where it is planned to cook the soup. As they are browned, finely chopped fillet is added - also about a third of a kilogram. Then water is poured, half a glass of red lentils is poured, and for a quarter of an hour the soup is cooked on a not too hot fire. Once the beans are cooked, a glass of cream is poured in, chopped basil is added. Boil - the fire is extinguished, the creamy soup is sprinkled with parsley and infused for ten minutes under the lid.
Cheese soup
Now let's turn to French cuisine. We build creamy mushroom soup according to the recipe of this country. This time the onion needs to be cut in half rings, and the carrots are grated more coarsely. Raw chicken (300 grams) loses its skins and finely chopped. Champignons - 200-250 grams - are not cut into the smallest slices. First, traditional roasting is done (onions + carrots), after seven minutes chicken is added, after another 10 - mushrooms; stewed vegetables with a bird for about a third of an hour. Then the processed cheese is either cut into thin sticks or rubbed and inserted into the pan until completely dissolved. At the end, a spoonful of flour is poured and actively mixed. The mass is transferred to the pan, filled with water; in it are placed the sticks of three potatoes. Creamy soup is cooked until the tubers are cooked. Just before the end, a glass of cream is poured in, the salinity and pepperiness are adjusted. Odorous herbs are served already at the table.
Norwegian soup
The Scandinavians, as you know, cannot live without fish. Personally from them - creamy soup, the recipe of which contains noble salmon. You can replace with salmon or eel, it will turn out delicious anyway. It is not necessary to buy a whole fish, it is enough to take grams of 600 abdomen. They are filled with water and boiled for about ten minutes, after which the broth is filtered off, and the fish pieces are set aside to cool. Two tablespoons of washed millet are poured into the boiled base again. Almost immediately, cubes of two potatoes and straws of carrots are laid (should not be fried). Next, a finely chopped onion, also not stewed, is poured. When the vegetables are ready, sliced salmon, peeled off the skin, are poured into the soup, a glass of cream is poured fatter and selected spices are added - at least salt, peas and laurel. Even those who are indifferent to the ear will approve of such a creamy soup!
Shrimp Puree Soup
Suppose in your family not everyone likes fish. And how do people relate to seafood? If you like - make a completely different creamy soup! The recipe tells you to take a pound of shrimp, cook, cool and clean. A piece of five potatoes, a small carrot and onion should not be cut very finely and boiled in a small amount of salted water. When it is ready, we drive through a blender, return it to the pan, pour two glasses of cream and bring to a quiet boil. A piece of grated cream cheese is sent to the pan when it dissolves - we extinguish the fire. Pour cream soup into plates, put shrimps there, sprinkle with herbs and treat the moody family!