Prepare to be surprised!
Surely, since the childhood you are tired of the phrase - "soup must be eat every day"? And it does not matter, whether it's hot chicken soup in the winter or a plate of cold saltwort in the summer - parents try to persuade us to eat a liquid dish even in adulthood, considering it the most important thing in the diet.
And no wonder humanity, since time immemorial (as soon as it learned how to boil water) began to reflect on new recipes for soups, creating their tastes increasingly diverse and unique. And if the first soups were simply decoctions of meat from the hippopotamus or the bones of other animals, nowadays the ingredients for this dish are even more unconventional and even extreme. Ready to learn about them?
1. Soup Kiburu
This is the favorite soup of the Chagg tribe, who lives at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is prepared from the most available products in this area - coffee and bananas. The third ingredient is ordinary dirt (as a seasoning). True, an affordable recipe?
2. Iguana Soup
This soup is one of the most popular in the Caribbean region and in particular - Aruba. It is prepared from vegetables and iguana, the meat of which to taste exactly the same as chicken, and is also a very powerful aphrodisiac. Well, the most important hero of such a plate is ... the penis of the iguana. They say that it is better to put two!
3. Bozintang Soup
In the menu of Korean restaurants you will certainly find this name, but be careful - if you consider a dog a friend of a man, then look for dinner for something else! Yes, to cook one portion of this popular hot dish, the cook will need as much as 100 grams of boiled canine meat, 500 grams of broth, and also taro stalks, onions, squeezed garlic, black pepper and ginger!
4. Dragon-Tiger-Phoenix Soup
No, just do not think that all of the above in the title is a component of the recipe. Metaphors - this is so characteristic of southern China and its Guangdong province! Well, in the soup itself you will find the snake meat symbolizing the dragon, the marten meat in the role of a tiger and the chicken meat, as a prototype of the Phoenix bird.
5. Soup "Tian-Khan"
The recipe is not for the faint-hearted ... So, in order to prepare this Vietnamese soup "Tien-Khan" you need a couple of liters of fresh duck blood, as well as goiter itself bird. And that the soup (blood) quickly thickens, it is cooled in the refrigerator, and then immediately eat. It is believed that "Tien-Khan" gives strength to those who eat it and to those who cook it ...
6. Beer soup
Beer soup is just a paradise for those who like to drink! And even more so, because they serve it in the early morning, and even with bread. The soup recipe was created back in the Middle Ages in Germany and quickly spread throughout Europe. To date, it is made from beer and fried flour. Though sometimes potatoes are added.
7. Bee soup
Oh, horror, but this soup is really popular on the islands of Palau in the Pacific Ocean. And despite the fact that bats carry a variety of diseases, their meat and coconut milk are the main ingredients in the recipe. Well, in the restaurant you most likely will serve this soup in a plate with a bat's head!
8. Soup "Menudo"
This liquid Mexican dish is the best remedy for a hangover! And they cook it from delicious cow's stomachs and corn porridge!
9. Shark fin soup
While conservationists are shooting documentaries about saving ocean monsters, Chinese and Taiwanese cooks have lost interest in shark meat dishes. Now give them shark fins for a new delicacy soup! But, you will eat it, knowing that the fins are cut off from still living predators, which are then released into the water for sure death!
10. Another type of soup "Menudo"
As you can see, in Mexico, all the forces are put on the fight against the hangover and soup recipes helping to alleviate this condition in weight of gold. That's why another version of the soup "Menudo" was created, but in this case it is not cooked from the stomachs of cows, but from the tongue, heart, lungs, liver and brain of goats. Well and sometimes in a saucepan it is possible to see hoofs and even tails!
11. Soup "№5"
Do not be surprised, but in the restaurants of East Asia and China, including soup from popular aphrodisiacs - a bull penis and testicles is called - soup "№5"!
12. Chocolate soup
This dish has already been dubbed the main soup for the Day of All Lovers! And it is prepared by the Japanese confectioners from chocolate of mark "Ghana" and noodles. It turns out an unusual combination of sweet, salty and spices.
13. Tiger penis soup
If you list all the soups cooked from the genitals of animals, then the soup from the penis of the tiger is the most expensive. In China, it is considered exclusive, and behind its eyes it is simply called "Viagra". According to the recipe, the penis of the tiger is soaked for a week in water, and then a whole day brewed on low heat along with herbs, spices and sometimes tiger bones. And despite the fact that the tiger in these parts is an endangered species, all the ingredients can easily be found on the market! True, sometimes the main part of the soup is replaced with deer or bull.
14. Soup-silence "Silence"
Incredibly popular soup for the winter period. And there are hundreds of varieties of this liquid fuel. Here, for example, the Cypriots prepare soup "Silence" from the head of a sheep, in Armenia from cow's feet, in Iran and Azerbaijan from sheep's hooves, and in Albania from the heads of all domestic animals!
15. Soup "Eggs of the Rooster"
Oh, this soup is very much like the favorite chicken soup with home-made noodles, only with the only difference is that they cook it on the cock's eggs. Rumor has it that this delicacy has a creamy texture, like tofu, just in a thick peel. And he has a positive effect on the condition of the skin in women and in men's strength!
16. Turtle soup
Judging by the name, you have already guessed, from what it is prepared? But allow a small remark - this one of the most expensive and traditional soups for Singapore, China and East Asia is prepared not just from turtles, but from green soft shells of turtles Cayman. And there is a chance that after using it you can seriously get poisoned!
17. Soup of swallows' nests
In restaurants in China, you pay for this soup sky-high, but will you enjoy its taste? Nests of swallows - this is, in fact, pressed mud, manure and saliva, and during the cook all this "unappetizing mixture" serves as a thickener.
18. Soup from human embryos
While you are preparing your nervous system to read the recipe for this soup, wealthy Chinese "gourmets" gather for lunch in a restaurant, where they will serve it! The shocking truth is that China's strict legislation still limits the number of children in the family. As a result, the black market is full of babies 6-7 months from conception, which after abortion simply turns into a delicacy ingredient for soup! According to ancient Chinese beliefs, eating unborn babies has a rejuvenating effect. Well, the price of the dish (read, life) - only 3-4 thousand yuan or about $ 500.
And which of these soups did you try, for the sake of interest, tried?