How To Cook Soup

Are you a crazy soup fan and always find yourself fantasizing about it? Soups are a perfect starter for every meal. They can be eaten as both hot and cold. Apart from being healthy, creamy, thick and delicious, soups are extremely nutritious, as a lot of ingredients and herbs are involved in their preparation. The variety of ingredients employed adds a unique and mouth watering taste to them. The most important component in the soup is its base. To make a soup tastier, special emphasis is required on the preparation of its base. The base is nothing, but the stock to prepare the soup. Non vegetarians love to indulge in chicken feet, while vegetarians are happy when there are several vegetables put in. Soup can be prepared in the saucepan as well as in a microwave. However, the real taste of all the ingredients can be best gathered using the crock pot, but the procedure takes quite a long time. The different ways to cook soup is given in the following lines.

Ways To Cook Soup

Preparing Soup Base

Ingredients

1 pound Chicken Feet
1 Onion (sliced)
2 Potatoes (peeled and sliced)
3 Carrot (peeled and sliced)
2 tbsp Celery (chopped)
¼ cup Red Dates (optional)
Water

Method

Clean the chicken nicely and wash it. Take a crock pot and put the cleaned chicken in it.
Now add onions, potatoes, carrots and celery to the pot.
To add a sweet taste to the soup, de-seed the dates and add them to the pot as well.
Now put water to the pot and set it to boil for about 1 ½ hours.
Then, put the soup on lower flame and set the soup base to boil for another 4-5 hours. It will extract the entire flavor of the ingredients thoroughly.
Now filter it using colander and use the liquid as the soup base.
Vegetarians can skip the chicken and increase the quantity of potato. You can also add other vegetables as per your choice.

In A Crock Pot

Ingredients

1 Ham Bone with Ham
2 cups Mixed Beans
1 clove Garlic (minced)
1 tbsp Lemon Juice
1 tbsp Honey
1 Bay Leaf
1 Onion (chopped)
Salt
Pepper
Water

Method

Take beans and ham bone. Wash them nicely and put them in a slow cooker.
Now add all other ingredients into it and let them cook on high heat for almost 2 hours.
Then turn the heat at low and let the soup simmer and cook it for another 4-5 hours.
Remove the bones and add some more water. To make the soup thick, mash the beans.
Before serving the sup remove the bay leaf.

In Microwave

Ingredients

5 Onions (sliced)
¼ cup Butter
10 oz Chicken Broth
10 oz Beef Broth
8 oz Mozzarella Cheese (shredded)
¼ cup Parmesan Cheese
Toasted French Bread

Method

Take a safe casserole and put onion and butter into it. Cover the casserole and set the microwave on high for about 8 minutes. Onions must become translucent.
Now add chicken broth and beef broth to the casserole containing onions.
Add the desired amount of water to it, according to the amount of other ingredients.
Cover it and microwave for 5 minutes.
Serve the soup with bread and cheese.

With these awesome ways to cook the soup, get ready to make people lick their fingers with your soup’s luscious and yummy taste.

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