So, have you ever wanted to do something visually stunning with soup? If so than this article is for you.
The principal is very simple.
Pick to very colorful and vibrant liquids that have flavors that mix and make a soup out of them.
Then heat both liquids separately, and make sure that they are of similar thickness.
This is easy to achieve by thickening one soup with a roux or slurry until it is the same consistency of the other.
The final step is to pour both soups into the bowl at the same time.
Instead of mixing together they should each fill one side of the bowl.
Thus making a nice yin-yang pattern in the soup bowl.
A good example of this is red and yellow heirloom tomato soup, but the possibilities are indeed endless.
Take care when making each separate half of the soup not to make completely balanced flavors in each.
If one soup is sour, you may want to make the other sweet.
If one is salty you may not want to add any salt to the other half.
The goal is to have a completely balanced flavor when the guest mixes the two soups together at the table when eating them.
This can be interactive and fun.
I'll give you an example of a soup I recently prepared.
It was called roasted tomato and pineapple.
I roasted my tomatoes and blended them until they were a soupy consistency.
I began heating the tomato soup in a pot and added a little salt.
Next I blended fresh pineapple and added pineapple juice as the pineapple itself didn't have quite enough.
I added some sugar to the pineapple soup because overall there was not much sweetness and the soup was a little sour.
My finished product was a nice yellow-red yin-yang in the soup bow that when mixed together created a nice tropical flavor.
Give this technique a try sometime.
It is sure to wow your guests at most any dinner or party.