2 Types of Cold Soup You Should Know as A Chef

Soup Knowledge: Cold Soup

What is Cold Soup?

• Served cold under 5 degree Celsius
• Can be a sweet or savory taste
• Usually, starchy vegetables, legumes, or fruits as the main ingredients.
• Generally, cold soup is blended or pureed
• Cold soups can be as simple as a chilled version of cream soup or as a cold fruit soup blended with yogurt. 

Cold Soup

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4 Types of Ingredients 

1. Main Ingredients: Fruits (papaya, watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple, etc.), Starchy vegetable ( potato, pumpkin, butternut squash, sweet potato, etc), legumes (nuts, beans, peas, and lentils) 
2. Liquids: Water, stock, juice, milk, skim milk, buttermilk, etc.
3. Flavor: Herbs, spices, liqueur (Dry sherry, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, etc)
4. Garnishes:  Various cut fruit and vegetable, dairy products (cream, whipped cream, yogurt, creme fraiche, sour cream, etc), herbs, etc.

Gazpacho

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The Famous of Cold Soup

1. Vichyssoise (French potato soup)
2. Borscht (Russian soup)
3. Gazpacho Andalouse (Spanish cold soup)
4. Salmorejo (Spanish tomato soup)
5. Ajoblanco (Spanish almond soup)
6. Watermelon Gazpacho
7. Chilled Papaya Soup
8. Sweet potato Soup
9. Chilled Mango Soup
10. Cucumber Soup
11. Chilled Pear Soup
12. Peas and Mint Soup

Borscht

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2 Types of Cold soup

1. Uncooked Cold soup: Does not require the cooking process
2. Cooked Cold Soup: Requires the cooking process.

Salmarajo

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1. Uncooked Cold Soup and Ingredients

• Chilled Mango Soup: Frozen mango, low-fat yogurt, honey, pineapple juice, garnish (diced mango)
• Chilled Melon and Mint Soup: Melon, water, ice cube, thick yogurt, sugar as needed, garnish (julienne melon and chopped mint leaf)
• Chilled Mandarin Orange Soup: Canned mandarin orange, orange juice, sugar, cornstarch, sour cream, garnish (orange segment)
• Chilled Papaya Soup: Papaya, honey, water, lime juice, sugar as needed, garnish (diced papaya and plain yogurt)
• Chilled Pear honey Soup: Canned pear halves, pear nectar, lemon juice, garnish (small diced pear and whipped cream)

2. Cooked Cold Soup and Ingredients

• Chilled Pumpkin Soup: Pumpkin, potato, onion, vegetable stock or water, honey, salt, cream, garnish (diced pumpkin)
• Sweet Potato Soup: Sweet potato, potato, honey, sugar, cinnamon powder, water, cream, garnish (yogurt)
• Chilled Strawberry Soup: Frozen strawberry, red wine, water, sugar, cornstarch, sour cream, lemon juice, garnish (sliced fresh strawberry and sour cream)
• Chilled Vichyssoise: Potato, the white part of the leek, onion, butter, water or vegetable stock, heavy cream, salt, white pepper, garnish (chopped chives).

Ajoblanco

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Gazpacho Andalouse Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 kilograms. Ripe flesh tomato
• 1 liter. Tomato juice
• 100 grams. Chopped onion
• 10 grams. Chopped garlic
• 200 grams. Chopped fresh cucumber 
• 100 milliliters. Olive oil
• 25 grams. Red wine vinegar
• 100 grams. White bread as a thickening agent
• 25 grams. Chopped cilantro
• To taste. Salt and White pepper
• To taste. Tabasco
• To taste. Sugar

Garnish

• 50 grams. Diced red bell pepper
• 50 grams. Diced green bell pepper
• Crouton

Method

• Remove seeds and skin from tomatoes and cucumbers
• Combine all the ingredients into the bowl
• Wrap with plastic, keep in the fridge between  4 hour - 12 hours as the maximum time for marination
• Liquidize in the blender until the mixture is liquidized pass through a coarse strainer
• Adjust seasoning with salt/ pepper and Tabasco
• Serve when completely chilled
• Garnish with croutons and raw diced peppers

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