Cream soup facts for kids

A cream soup is a yummy kind of soup that uses cream, milk, or a mix of both as a main ingredient. Sometimes, the creamy part is added at the very end, especially after the soup has been blended smooth, or puréed.

Cream soups often start with a special base. This base can include things like onion, celery, garlic, butter, and flour. Then, liquids like milk, light cream, or chicken stock or vegetable stock are added. After that, different vegetables or meats are mixed in. It's a great way to use up leftover veggies and meats too!

Awesome Cream Soups

There are so many delicious cream soups out there! Here are some popular ones you might know:

Picture	Soup Name	What it's like
	Bisque	A rich, creamy soup often made with shellfish like crab or lobster. But you can make it with any seafood or other main ingredients.
	Bobó de camarão	This is a Brazilian dish, a bit like a thick soup. It has shrimp in a smooth mix of manioc (also called cassava) and coconut milk.
	Chowder	Chowders are often made with milk or cream. Fish chowder, corn chowder, and clam chowder are super popular in places like New England and Atlantic Canada.
	Clam chowder	This soup has clams and broth. There are many types! The most famous are New England "white" clam chowder, which is creamy, and Rhode Island/Manhattan "red" clam chowder, which usually doesn't have cream.
	Corn chowder	The main ingredients for corn chowder are corn, onion, celery, milk or cream, and butter.
	Cream of asparagus soup	This soup uses asparagus, a light chicken or vegetable stock, and milk or cream as its main parts.
	Cream of broccoli soup	The main ingredients are broccoli, stock, and milk or cream. Big food companies like the Campbell Soup Company make lots of this soup.
	Cream of chicken soup	You can buy this soup in a condensed (super thick) form, but many people also make it at home.
	Cream of mushroom soup	This simple soup starts with a basic roux (a mix of fat and flour) thinned with cream or milk. Then, mushrooms or mushroom broth are added. The Campbell Soup Company started making its famous condensed "Cream of Mushroom Soup" in America in 1934.
	Cream of spinach	Spinach is the main ingredient. Other things like onion, carrot, celery, tomato, potato, and lemon juice can be added. It's usually served hot, but can also be a cold soup.
	Cream of shrimp	This soup is sometimes made creamy. The picture shows a shrimp chowder, which is a type of creamy shrimp soup.
	Cream of tomato	This soup is made with tomatoes as the main ingredient and cream or milk. You can have it hot or cold, and there are many ways to make it.
	She-crab soup	A rich soup, much like a bisque. It's made with milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and traditionally, crab roe (eggs). A little bit of dry sherry is often added just before serving.

Other creamy soups include cream of cauliflower, cream of fennel, cream of potato, cream of corn, cream of walnut, cream of roasted pumpkin, and cream of celery. Basically, you can make a cream soup out of almost anything!

Images for kids

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  Cream of clams soup

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  Cream of corn soup

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  Cream of fava beans soup

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  Cream of potato soup

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  Cream of roasted pumpkin soup

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  Cream of rocoto soup

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  Cream of walnut soup