Red Soup

Red soup made from all sort of veggies.
I love all kind of soups. I think it is very healthy and you should each day eat a soup. That way you can maintain your stomach healthy. You can make it from meat, or even no meat, just vegetables.

This is how I make my red soup. The meat can be any type, but if you don't want any meat, just follow the simple recipe. The main thing is the beet.

Ingredients:
beet
cabbage
potato
carrot
onion
tomatoes

The beet should go first. When ready add tomatoes, potatoes.
Fry the carrot and onions and add after potatoes are ready. Add spices and other stuff what you think is good. I like to add basil to all my soups. I like the smell. As it is cold now, I add garlic in the soup. The natural garlic helps you to maintain your health during cold times.

Zama

I have already told once how to cook this kind of soup. This is a traditional moldavian/romanian soup. The main thing about it is the colors. My grand mother used to do zama from doves sometimes. She had a lot of doves in under the roof of the house.
Normally zama is made of chicken meat, or any other bird meat.

Ingredients:
Meat
home made noodles
carrot
onions

Method of preparing

Firstly boil the meat and prepare the bullion. Than add the onions and carrots. Than add the noodles, which as being homemade, can also be bought from the shop. The traditional zama doesn't contain potatoes. Put you my put them.

This is how it looks.

Zama

Zama (zeama) is a traditional romanian soup, made in both Moldova and Romania regions. This is a very old tradition and I never met any soup like that in other cultures.
The soup is a very healthy variant of soup, it doesn't actually contain much fat, because it is made of bird meat.
My variant of zama is from chicken. If you add special spices than you will get the specific taste of zama.

The ingredients are:
chicken meat
vermicelli
onions
carrot
lovage
spices
potatoes (traditionally are not used)

Method of preparing:
Normally first prepare the meat. Cut the onions and the carrot into very small pieces and fry them, than add in the soup. Than when it is ready, after 40 min, add the vermicelli, normally they should be home made, but you can by them. This should be little vermicelli, small pieces. If you want to put some potatoes than add them before adding vermicelli. At the end add the lovage, this type of greens that gives a specific taste. There are actually spices from Maggi which have the same smell, you can try.
I hope you like it!

Vegetable soup

I remember once eating this kind of soup in Bulgaria. But considering that all the ingredients also grow here in Moldova, than I guess this soup will be characteristic to Moldova too.
The ingredients are:
Chicken meat
cabbage
potatoes
Bulgarian pepper
carrots
onions

Soup with peas

The soup is considered to be a light one. This soup with peas is I remember since kindergarten, school, and so on. Because it doesn't cost much to make it.
The ingredients are:
Chicken meat
potatoes
yellow peas
carrot
onions
spices

Method of preparing:
firstly put boil the peas for about 1.5 - 2 hours. It takes a lot of time, they have to become like almost porridge. That add the meat. And as usual fry the onions with carrot and add to your soup. At the end add the potatoes and spices. Bon apetite!

Cabbage soup

This is moldavian soup with salted, marinated cabbage. The analogue of it in Russia is Schee (Щи), which is a traditional russian soup.

The ingredients are:
meat, pork of beef
onions, carrots,
cabbage
paste from tomatoes
potatoes
spices

The method of preparing:
Boil the meat until it's ready. But before it you have to prepare the cabbage for some days previously. Chop the cabbage and put a lot of salt and some water to cover it, and leave it like that for 3 days. That you can put it in the soup. That fry some onion and carrots chopped and add in the soup too. Than potatoes and spices. And in 20 min it is ready.

Chicken soup with peas

This is a very light chicken soup, I would say that it's a diet soup.
The ingredients are:
Chicken
potatoes
carrot, onions
frozen green peas(like the ones in the picture)

The Method of preparing:
As usual boil the chicken, and when it is ready add in the water the potatoes. During this time fry the onions and the carrot, which should be chopped into small pieces. Add them into the soup. Then take 150 gr of green peas and put them in the soup too. After 10 min add spices and it's done.
Enjoy!

Soleanca

This is a type of traditional soup, which is very easy to cook.
It will take you not more than 15 min, to prepare it.

The Ingredients are:
all sort of salami and sausages. About 300-400 gr of different sausages.
onions
carrot
olives
lemon

Method of preparing:
Chop the onion and carrots and fry them all together for 5 min. Than add the chopped sausages, as it is shown in th picture. Fry it for some more minutes. And than add it into a bowl with water. Until it starts boiling. After it add some olives, like 10 for example. And when you put this soup into the plate, you should add a piece of lemon.

Red Soup - krasnii borshi - красный борщ

This is a great and hard to prepare soup.
The main elements represent the beetroot and the cabbage. But if you succeed in cooking it, you will be a very happy person.

The ingridients are:
Meat, 250 gr, it can be chicken or beef, or pork
1 beetroot
4 potatoes
250 gr of cabbage
1 carrot
1 onion
tomatoes

The Method of Preparing:
Cut the meat into small pieces. Put it in the pan. Cook until it is already done. Than add the peeled beetroot and wait for 10 min. After it add the peeled cabbage.
When the cabbage is ready add the potatoes and tomatoes. In the end you have to peel the carrot and the onion and fry them a little bit, than add into the soup.
Add some spices not too much, very important is the black pepper and lour leafs.
The soup should be served with cream. Just as it is shown in the picture.