A soup is 1. A liquid food made by boiling or
simmering meat, fish, or
vegetables with various added ingredients.
There
is certainly nothing new about soup, but
what is great about soup is that you can get all
the goodness from the foods, just chuck it all in to a pot of
water.
Also a greater variety of foods can be put into
a soup without it being an overwhelming meal.
Some
of the tastiest and most pungent
ingredients are leek, fennel, corn, tomato, fish, crabs, and pumpkin.
A lot of soups are made with a definite green
herb/vegetable, such as the coriander in the Chinese chicken stock
soup, or the
potato and leek soup vegetables.
These green vegetable are naturally very tasty
but only by boiling the plant’s food stores out of between
the fibres - that is
what will give the taste to the rest of the soup’s flavours.
One
of my favourite soups is a very simple soup
to accompany rice and some fried or roasted meat. The soup has salt,
pepper,
water and beautiful fresh water cress straight from the farm market.
There are
many plants with this name as it is a common name given to non-descript
plants
growing in a decent depth of water, hence the name.
The farm market attendant should be able to
direct you to it easily as it is an internationally recognized
high-value food.
Just
boil the whole plant after chopping into
edible sizes and cutting away some trunk.
Only for a few minutes and serve on top and
around the rice. The cress should mix with the rice and produce a nice
green speckled
rice during eating. It doesn’t get tastier than that
you’ll have to try it for
yourself.
Don’t
leave soup out of your diet it’s easy to
get started and is something you can really enjoy with your favourite
baker’s
bread.
Water was probably the first thing to be mixed
with food from the earliest times of our history, experiment and taste
as you
go.