Sopa de Ajo or garlic soup is a Spanish dish. It is prepared from the simplest ingredients and quickly enough. But for all its seeming simplicity, the soup is very aromatic and tasty.
Ingredients (for a 2L pot):
- Garlic – 10 cloves
- Stale white bread – 4 slices 1.5-2 cm thick.
- Chicken or vegetable broth – 2 l.
- Tomatoes in their own juice (or fresh) – 350 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
- Smoked paprika – 2 tsp
- Olive oil – 50 ml.
- Salt to taste
Cooking process
1 If you do not have a ready-made broth, then you need to cook it. For this soup, chicken or vegetable broth is suitable. I often use pre-cooked and frozen broth. I cool the finished broth and pour it into silicone molds. If necessary, it is enough to take the right amount of portioned frozen broth. It is very convenient and time-saving.
2 Peel and cut the garlic into thin slices. Put it in a frying pan with olive oil. Fry over low heat until light golden brown.
Add smoked paprika to the garlic. Stir and fry for another minute.
3 Add the diced stale bread to the pan (I use a well-dried ciabatta). You can add all the rusks at once, or you can divide them into two parts. Add one immediately, and add the second to the plate in the ready-made soup. I like the second option better.
Stir the rusks with garlic and fry everything together for 15 minutes. Do not forget to stir periodically – for even browning.
Next, add chopped tomatoes. Mix.
In the classic recipe, tomatoes are not added, but they seem very appropriate to me in this dish.
4 Put the contents of the pan into a saucepan with broth. Bring to a boil. Salt.
The final touch is to add the eggs. Mix the eggs with a fork. Pour them in a thin stream into a pot of soup, stirring constantly.
Alternatively, add the cooked poached egg to the soup bowl just before serving. And so and so it turns out delicious.
Serve Spanish garlic soup with rusks and herbs.
Other delicious soups from around the world:
Ukrainian borscht https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/ukrainian-borscht-according-to-my-grandmothers-recipe/
Hungarian goulash soup https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/hungarian-goulash-soup/
Georgian soup Kharcho https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/georgian-soup-kharcho/
Vietnamese Pho Bo soup https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/pho-bo-soup/