Every person is influenced by the seasons. When the weather turns cool or damp, to stay strong and healthy, eat hot, spicy, oily foods - this will activate the immune system and stimulate blood circulation.
Soup is a real tonic for the body, helping to conserve energy. Hot stew not only warms the body, but also gives a feeling of peace and tranquility. And what a bouquet of aromas and nutrients in it! The soup has everything to keep our body active: fuel in the form of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Recipes use legumes, chili peppers, ginger, onions, barley, and seafood for this. Fiber-rich vegetables stimulate digestion and the antioxidants they contain "repair" cells. Each spoonful of broth contains a lot of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus, protein helps to restore muscle structure - when it is not enough in the diet, we become lethargic and vulnerable to infections.
It is necessary
- • chicken meat,
- • lamb,
- • shrimp, seafood cocktail,
- • white fish
- • squid
- • lentils,
- • pearl barley
- • rice
- • carrot
- • shiitake mushrooms
- • tomatoes
- • bell pepper
- • salted cucumbers
- • bulb onions,
- • leek,
- • garlic,
- • ginger,
- • lemon,
- • hot red pepper,
- • ground black pepper,
- • celery,
- • olive oil or other vegetable
- • tabasco sauce
- • parsnip
- • wine vinegar
- • mustard
- • eggs
- • parsley
Instructions
Step 1
3 simple chicken broth soups. Chicken broth is full of energy and helps clear mucus from the upper respiratory tract, reduces coughing and reduces inflammation. When combined with eggs, onions, lemon and hot peppers, the soup is a powerful remedy for seasonal colds.
Homemade chicken broth
Fry chopped chicken and onions, add celery stalk, carrots, add water and cook until tender. Remove the celery from the finished soup.
Chinese Chicken Ginger Soup
Chicken, 5 onions, chopped lengthwise, then halved, 7 cm ginger root, finely chopped, 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice. Cook the chicken with ginger and onion until tender, chop the meat and return to the soup. Add lemon juice to the prepared soup.
Rice soup
In 1 liter of chicken broth, add leeks, cut diagonally 1 cm thick, and rice. When the rice is ready, pour in 4 beaten eggs. and bring to a boil. Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice, hot red and black pepper to the prepared soup.
Step 2
Seafood soup with rice
By adding seafood to the soup, we saturate it with healthy omega-3 fatty acids, which strengthen the heart muscle.
Add rice, fried garlic, paprika and chili to the chicken broth. When the rice is ready, add dense white fish (cod, pollock) and a seafood cocktail - shrimp, mussels.
Solyanka with barley and squid
Put pearl barley in fish broth or water, boil until soft, add pickles, white fish, bell peppers, fried onions, carrots, tomato, and at the very end - cut squid into strips. When serving, garnish with a lemon circle and parsley.
Step 3
Barley and lamb increase energy for proper heat exchange in the body. The mixture of mustard and chili increases the metabolic rate by 25%. Pepper contains a lot of fiber and vitamins E and C, beta-carotene, potassium, folic acid. These elements improve immunity, help protect the body from cancer, and reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol.
Mustard Barley Soup
In lamb and chicken broth (you can only from chicken), add pearl barley, chopped onion and celery stalk, boil over low heat for about an hour. Remove the celery and add the carrot slices and the parsnip root. Season with 2 tsp. mustard, 1 tsp. fresh or 1/2 tsp. dried rosemary, pepper, boil for another 15 minutes.
Step 4
Beans, kidney beans and lentils are the key to energy stores. They are rich in fiber, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Unlike their legume counterparts, lentils cook quickly and are easy to digest. The soup is high in onions and garlic to reduce inflammation and fight infection. Tomatoes contain lycopene, which has a protective effect and is better absorbed with vegetable oil or fat.
Lentil soup with tomatoes
Cook lentils and tomatoes in chicken broth, add ham, onion, garlic, caraway seeds and oregano at the end of cooking. Whisk 2 tablespoons in a small cup. olive or other vegetable oil, ¼ tsp. Tabasco sauce, 1 tablespoon wine vinegar, add to the soup and boil for another 5 minutes. Serve with garlic croutons.
Thick lentil stew can be cooked with sautéed carrots, onions and garlic, without adding tomatoes and spices
Step 5
Spicy thai soup
Traditionally, it requires a lot of hot chili peppers to make, but you can change the recipe to a less hot one if you like. One or two tablespoons of this soup can cause coughs and runny nose. This is how pepper should work, according to traditional Chinese medicine, which recommends eating spicy food, which helps increase blood flow through clogged vessels, opens up the sinuses and helps remove bacteria from the upper respiratory tract.
Soak shiitake mushrooms in hot water for 15 minutes. Fry the onion until golden brown, add 2 hot peppers, 5 cloves of garlic, then chop the vegetables until a uniform mass. Add 1 tsp to the puree. fish sauce and 2 tsp. sugar, heat a little. Put mushrooms in 0.5 liters of chicken broth, half mashed potatoes, cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, add lemon juice 2-3 tbsp. l., 3 tbsp. fish sauce, leek and 1 tsp. Sahara. Add white fish and shrimp, they cook quickly, about 5 minutes. Serve rice in a separate bowl with the soup.
