Soups & Salads (E-Book)

Light soups are generally served as appetizers before the main course. Such soups should be deliciously light which make the guest look forward to dinner, being truly an appetizer! Appetizer soups if heavy, kill the appetite. Sometimes a soup may be a meal in itself. Such hearty or substantial soups, with a sandwich or some toasted bread are filling enough to make a complete meal. Soups may be very thin and clear, like the Tom Yum Thai soup, or slightly thickened by using cornflour as in Chinese soups or the vegetable itself is pureed to give the desired consistency, as in mushroom soup. There are Indian soups/shorbas, classic Continental soups like cream of tomato or cream of vegetable and other International soups like minestrone of Italy or the French onion soup of France. The semi thick soups are also called broths. The thick soups include Mulligatawny soup topped with some boiled rice.