Lesson 8 of 10 · Pro
A soup from scratch
Build a soup on onion, carrot and celery, keep it at a gentle simmer, season it at the end, and cool and store the leftovers safely.
What you will learn
- How to cook a soup base of onion, carrot and celery
- What a simmer looks like, and why a hard boil hurts soup
- What order to add ingredients so they’re all done together
- Why soup is seasoned at the end
- How to cool and store a big pot safely
Practice dishes
Dishes that use this skill include vegetable soup, chicken soup, minestrone, lentil soup, white bean and kale soup, potato or broccoli soup, chili.