Archive for August, 2009
How to Make Easy Fish Soup Recipes
Fish soup might not be the most common type of soup but it does make a warming lunch or a deliciously different dinner. When was the last time you made fish chowder or a fish soup recipe? Fish soup can be really flavorful and you can even invent your own fish soup recipes.
Aromatic herbs like dill and parsley go well with fish and you can make fish soup with all kinds of fish, such as tilapia, salmon, tuna, cod and more. Remember that fish only takes about ten minutes to cook in this way, so add the fish near the end of the cooking time, else it might become tough. As soon as the fish is opaque and flakes easily, it is done.
Famous Soup Recipes
There are lots of famous fish soup recipes, such as French bouillabaisse and Singaporean sliced fish soup. Vietnamese sour fish soup, Hungarian paprika-spiced fisherman’s soup and Scottish “Cullen Skink” which is a delicious combination of potatoes, onion, cream and smoked haddock, are other examples.
Cioppino is an Italian-American fish soup made with different types of fish, as well as tomatoes, and clam chowder is also a well known dish. You can use many different types of fish and seafood to make fish soup recipes. Simply add some herbs and vegetables to water to make a broth and add some chopped fish. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Chinese Soup is Really Good For Health – Here Are the Top 5 Reasons
Top 5 reasons why you must cook your 1st Chinese soup today!
1. The process of soup making does not involve frying and deep fried as no oil is involve, which can reduce the fat intake, hence reducing the heart disease.
2. In Chinese soup recipes indeed most of the time can help for faster body recovery from illness, injuries, and after gave birth, with some Chinese herbal ingredient involved.
3. Easier for digestion and faster vitamin absorption. Since it is using water as the main medium or ingredient, the vitamins and minerals from the ingredients be it meats, vegetables, seafood or herbs will all dissolve into the water.
4. Simple preparation. It is so simple in making a bowl of healthy Chinese soup, all you need to do is gather the required ingredients, clean them and chop in pieces, mix with water and pull all into a electric slow cooker. What you need to do next is just wait for your freshly cook soup ready to serve. It is really a best for busy working life people.
5. For people that wish to lose some weight, drinking more Chinese soup is indeed a better option as it really call fill up with your stomach, especially if you follow the custom Chinese dining practice where drink soup first, take vegetable second and last with meat, so this help you control your diet and limit the daily intake calories needed.
A free body slimming soup recipe here for all:
Ingredients:
Chicken frame bones – 200gram, Spring Onion – 2 pieces, Red Onion – 1 piece, Tomato – 1 piece, Green, pepper – 1 piece, White cabbage – 200 gram, Celery- 100 gram, Salt – 1 tea spoon Read the rest of this entry »
Stay Healthy and Fit With Stuffed Peppers
If you are health conscious or just love to eat vegetables, you would surely love eating stuffed peppers. Stuffed peppers are a dish that is known all over the world and they come in different versions.
In Mexico, stuffed peppers are called Chile relleno that uses chili pepper. It is stuffed with cheese and meat and the pepper is covered in egg batter and then fried. When it is served, it may come with rice on the dish or in a taco and has rice, salsa as well as other toppings. Romania has the Ardei umpluti as their version and, of course, it uses bell peppers. Just the same, it is stuffed with ground meat, vegetables, rice and spices. It is then boiled in a mixture of cream, tomatoes and other spices.
However, you do not have to make it too hard on yourself about deciding on how to make your stuffed peppers. You also do not have to spend too much time on looking for stuffing because you can prepare the most basic of all.
The first thing you will have to prepare when making stuffed peppers are, naturally, the peppers. The best ones you can use are those that have a flat base so that it can stand on your dish. Blanching the peppers for five minutes in boiling water is recommended so that it does not take too much time for you to bake. When it is done, you can run it under cool water and then remove the stalk ends, as well as the seeds and the white pith.
You can place in chopped herbs inside your stuffed peppers later on. The choice of herbs depends upon you – mint, basil, thyme and the likes would still work well with the recipe. You can also place in rice or breadcrumbs into your stuffed peppers as well as finely chopped onions softened in olive oil. Before putting on the cover of your peppers, you can sprinkle some grated parmesan cheese over them and then place them on an oven safe dish. Read the rest of this entry »