Cold soup

When the temperatures soar and you seek fluid diet, a steaming bowl of anything can be a put-off. But we have a way to help you beat the summer heat. Say hello to a welcoming bowl of refreshing, cold comfort.

Ingredients
Vegetables, dried fruits, meat or other edible ingredients, combined with water, stock or juice. The base may be a cream, a broth or a combination

Variations
Thick and clear

Taste
Sweet or savoury

Types
• Gazpacho, a chilled vegetable-based (mostly tomato) soup, originating from Spain
• Fruit soup, prepared using fruit as a primary ingredient, eaten as desserts in some regions
• Mool naeng myun, a cold meat broth from Korea
• Salmorejo, porra antequerana and ajoblanco, popular in Andalusia
• Cold chicken soup

Did you know?
The first cold soup, called Vichyssoise and made using potato and leek, is believed to have originated in the summer of 1917, in New York. The creator of the soup had named it after a French Spa Resort.