Curiously, but many people got used to consider that any soup by all means needs to be cooked on the basis of broth, with use of meat ingredients. However broth can be vegetable, mushroom, and tasty rich soup turns out without addition of components of animal origin.
What is meatless soup
Meatless soup is the first course which isn't containing in the structure of animal products. Why "fast"? Because it is accepted to cook such dishes at orthodox Christians in the Post, in fast days, that is, every Wednesday and Friday and also daily during the long periods of Posts within a year. However, the lenten menu becomes a constant way of life for increasing number of followers of veganism assuming total rejection of consumption and in use of the animal products or products made not by deprivation of life, and and exploitation of an animal by the person. In understanding of the people far from ethic food, preparation of meatless soup comes down to replacement of meat soup with water. Floating in transparent colourless liquid potato with noodle look not only unappetizingly, but also it is very repellent. Actually Meatless soup can be cooked on the basis of mushroom or vegetable broth. Filling options set: vegetables, potatoes, grain in various combinations. Use of vegetable oil, spices and herbs, sometimes torments or starch allows to receive first courses, magnificent on a view and of taste. So there is a lot of recipes of meatless soups that the same soup can not repeat in the menu for months.
To whom meatless soups are useful
Except those people whose way of life assumes continuous or periodic refusal of animal products, vegan or fast first courses will be useful to all who suffer from various violations in work of an endocrine system of an organism: at obesity, diabetes, atopic dermatitis, etc. Also for all who keep the figure and all who want it is useful, tasty and properly to eat.
How to cook meatless soup
Lenten (fast) soups can be cooked both on a plate, and in an oven. At the same time it is much simpler, easier to cook soup in an oven, than on a plate. Components don't demand preprocessing, and therefore all process is reduced to two main stages: - the preparation of products including cleaning and crushing; about in general process of preparation of meatless soup same, as well as proyets of preparation of a meat soup. The exception makes lack of need of a precook of meat soup which occurs as set, in several stages: soaking of meat, preparation of primary broth (which needs to be poured out as in food it isn't suitable), preparation of secondary broth, filtering and then laying of products for soup.
Recipes of meatless (vegan) soups
Sorrel soup. In this dish there are no potatoes, such soup can be entered into the menu at obesity and diabetes. Also there are no carrots, beet, tomatoes therefore Russian cabbage soup suits people with atopic dermatitis and to those who respect the rules of a hypoallergenic diet.
- Take 1 glass of haricot, fill in with water and leave for the night. Then drain water, fill in fresh and cook haricot until ready within about 1 hour.
- In a pan with a thick bottom heat 3-5 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Oil has to be warm, there is no need to warm "to a smoke". Put the onions and turnip cut in cubes in oil. Onions take 100 grams, and turnips - 400 grams. Cover a pan, you stew vegetables on the weakest fire about 5 minutes.
- Add 150 grams of thinly chopped white cabbage. Again cover and you extinguish until cabbage doesn't become soft.
- Now pour in a pan with vegetables 1.5 liters of hot water, bring to the boil on strong fire, put the prepared haricot.
- You cook on average fire of 5 minutes.
- On the expiration of the specified time put 400 grams of small cut sorrel in a pan. To taste put salt, sugar and a black sprinkling pepper.
- You cook Russian cabbage soup no more than 2 more minutes, then remove from fire.
Vegetable soup with millet.
- In a cauldron warm 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, put in oil 100 grams of a squash cut in small cubes and 100 grams of pumpkin.
- Scald a half of a glass of millet boiled water, drain water, and put grain in a cauldron where pumpkin and a squash are stewed.
- Pour 1.5 liters of hot water, put salt and spices.
- You cook soup within 15 minutes, then put the greens cut small and remove from fire.
Pumpkin soup. Feature of this soup from pumpkin - a way of preparation. This soup in an oven is cooked that does it especially fragrant and bright.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a stewpan, a fire-resistant pan or a cauldron. Put 150 grams of the onions cut by straws, 400 grams of potatoes cut by quarters and 200-300 grams of the pumpkin cut in cubes. Put spices and dry herbs to taste. Pour 1 liter of hot water.
- Warm an oven up to the temperature of 200 degrees and place the container with soup on a lattice. Prepare about half an hour.
- Wipe ready soup by means of the submersible blender.
Also options of recipes for meatless soups can be borrowed from syroyed. Syroyedchesky pea cream soup.
- Fill in an incomplete glass, about three quarters of volume, the cleaned sunflower seeds of sunflower with water for 30 minutes. Drain water.
- Take 100 grams of hulled green peas, connect to the sunflower sunflower seeds soaked in water.
- Here add garlic, sea salt, pepper to taste and fill in with a cold clear water of 350 ml.
- Wipe by means of the blender.
Syroyedchesky beetroot soup.
For carrot in Korean
- rasp a carrots half, a half of a fresh cucumber, a half of small turnip and a half of small beet.
- At will add the sweet onions cut in small cubes.
- Put the crushed greens and a pinch of sea salt.
- Pour clean cold or warm, it isn't higher than 40 degrees, water in the quantity sufficient before obtaining desirable consistence of soup.