Winter is arriving. It’s going to be cold outside. So what would be the best thing to enjoy this season? What can be better than hot soup of your choice? As the cold days start, people start adding soups to their meals. Soups are not only healthy for us, it also protects us from the cold weather.
Soups are a great warm food filled with nutritious ingredients and incredible flavors. One can experiment with many of the known soup recipes and make something of their own.
Soups are mainly used as appetizers, starters, a side dish, or a one-pot meal. Soup preparation mainly doesn’t need any specific item in the kitchen. It can be made using regular items present in your kitchen. Soups are considered one of the most delicious as well as economical dish.
The main thing that soups use is a stock (a rich broth) that can range from liquids of poultry, boiled meat, seafood, vegetables with some seasoning. Soup can be cold or hot, sweet or savory, thick or thin. However, winter season calls for hot soups. Here is one good soup recipe for this season.
Winter Vegetable Chowder
Serve 8 people
Ingredients
2 cups milk
10 peppercorns
4 large parsley branches and 2 tbsp chopped parsley
4 bay leaves
1 garlic clove, halved
1 large thyme sprig
5 juniper berries
½ onion, sliced
3 tbsp. butter
2 cups carrots, peeled
4 leeks, sliced diagonally about 1 inch thick
8 to 10 cups root vegetables, peeled and cut into pieces
Salt and fresh pepper
3tbsp flour
6 large slices bread, toasted
Grated or sliced cheese to cover the toast
Chopped parsley or tarragon to garnish
Method
First crush peppercorns and berries lightly. Combine these with milk, parsley bunch, 2 bay leaves, garlic and thyme. Now bring all these things to a boil. When done, cover it and keep aside until you prepare the vegetables.
Now melt the butter in a sauce pan. To it add the vegetables, another 2 bay leaves, chopped parsley, and salt. Cook these things on medium heat while stirring in between for about 5 minutes.
Then add flour to the cooking vegetables and around 5 cups of water. Bring to boil in low heat until the vegetables become tender.
Put the milk mixture and 1 cup of vegetables in the blender and puree. Now add this puree back to the soup.
The best way to serve this soup is to put a toast in the bowl, cover it with cheese, then add few spoons of soup to it and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Additional soup recipes
Healthy soup recipe – Beans and Rice Soup, Chicken Soup with Almonds
Holiday soup recipe - Butternut Squash Soup
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