{Egg Drop Soup}
The frigid air cuts through your parka, numbs your nose and freezes your bones. When it’s this cold, only a big pot of brothy comfort will do. The Sauce recipe database has a soup or stew recipe to satisfy any palate and appetite, whether you want to keep things light or need more fuel to shovel the driveway. Here, six ideas to inspire your soup pot tonight:
1. Egg Drop Soup: This easy soup only requires mirin, eggs, broth and a handful of spices to deliver simple, flavorful sustenance.
2. Vegan French Onion Soup: Start now, and you’ll have perfectly caramelized onions for this vegan twist on a French classic by dinner time.
3. Vegetarian Beef Stew: This recipe makes quick work of all the odds and ends in your vegetable crisper. Toss in seitan to make it vegetarian; meat-eaters can beef up this veggie-packed stew.
4. Pho Ga: The secret to this traditional Vietnamese dish? A rotisserie chicken from the grocery store.
5. Carrot Apple Ginger Soup You’re down to carrots, an onion and one apple? We can work with that.
6. Guinness Stew Meat, potatoes and Guinness… need we say more? Buy a six-pack and you’ve got a perfect beverage pairing.
-Photo by Carmen Troesser
This article appears in January 2014.