Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2023 June 12

= June 12 =

Vegetable soup
Why adding oil on vegetable soup, become spicy? 2001:B07:6442:8903:54D7:12D0:78CB:5E92 (talk) 15:01, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Many recipes start with the cook sauteing chopped onions, carrots, possibly celery and some garlic, which gives them more flavour. This is generally done using a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. (Some other recipes start with mirepoix, which is more often prepared with butter, but again the purpose is to make the veggies tastier.) In some cuisines hot spicy oil may be added to the soup typically just before serving, like in this recipe for Turkish lentil soup, which says this is done to "add richness", or even only after the soup has been ladled into the serving bowls. --Lambiam 18:55, 12 June 2023 (UTC)