What a delicious soup to cook if the usual traditional soup repertoire is fed up with? Decisions and options, of course, a lot, for example, you can prepare a Swiss soup with cheese according to a traditional recipe. Such an unusual dish in our places, definitely, diversifies your usual menu.
It should be noted that this soup is very high-calorie and provides a long satiety, and therefore very good in breakfast or lunch before active physical activity, mountain or ski walk or just hike in nature with fresh, cool weather.
Recipe of Swiss soup with cheese, cream and croutons
Ingredients:
- strong meat broth (best beef) - about 1 liter;
- cream natural dairy - about 200 ml (1 glass);
- Cheese is hard (ideally Swiss origin, such varieties as Emmental, Gruyer, Shabtsiger and others of this type) - about 150-200 g;
- butter creamy natural classic (and preferably homemade) without any additives - about 20-30 g;
- fresh herbs (parsley, rosemary, basil and no fennel);
- seeds of cumin and, if you like, coriander;
- white bread - 2 slices;
- Ground spices (sweet and black pepper, carnation, nutmeg, saffron).
Preparation
Meat broth in a saucepan put on the fire and immediately add the seeds of cumin and coriander. As soon as the broth slightly boils, immediately reduce the fire to the weakest and, covering the lid, wait for 8-19 minutes so that the seeds of cumin and coriander give the broth their specific taste and aroma.
Bread cut into small cubes or oblong slabs and dried on a baking tray in the oven (that is, we make croutons, or simply put, croutons, toast ). Cheese rub on medium or large grater. We cut the greens finely.
At the last minute, the broth of the broth is poured into it with cream and seasoned with nutmeg and saffron. Spread in soup cups or plates a little croutons and pour boiling broth, filled with cream.
We fall asleep in each soup cup a portion of grated cheese. You can serve cheese (and greens) on a separate plate - let everyone do it themselves. Sprinkle with pepper (ideally - freshly ground from a mill). Top with sprinkled with herbs.
Enjoy traditional Swiss soup with cheese. To this delicious dish it is good to serve as an aperitif an authentic Swiss drink: schnapps, kirsch, a glass of Appenseler Apelbittner, or Swiss table wines, which are very interesting.