Did you know that every January Britain advocates National Soup Month?

When it’s cold, grey, and miserable outside, or you are sick in bed, soup is undoubtedly warming, filling and uplifting.

However, in Cayman, we may not require hot soup to drive away the chilly winter blues, but let’s not dismiss the delicious nutritional value of a bowl of hot or cold soup.

First and foremost, it is undoubtedly soothing and easy to digest, and is available in a countless variety of flavours and textures.

Meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, vitamins, fibre, and nutrients can be creatively combined to produce soups packed with key health benefits.

Many soups can help boost your body’s immune system, fight flu symptoms, and reduce the risk of chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, coronary heart problems and diabetes.

Soup’s liquid consistency helps to stimulate your body’s digestive tract, which is why it is a popular appetiser. And remember, due to the significant percentage of water, soups can be low in calories.

It’s not difficult to nourish your body with delicious options like

courgette and mint, carrot and Hummus, roast garlic and parsnip, sweet potato and ginger, bacon and lentil, gherkin, tofu and boiled rice, and so on.

If you feel inspired, plenty of recipes are available online, so choose your ingredients and grab your ladle.

Of course, restaurants in Cayman serve an abundance of innovative, flavourful soups, from hearty stews to delicate broths.

Here is our top choice of savoury soups served locally:

Try the award-winning creamy luscious lobster bisque at the Lobster Pot in George Town.

Ragazzi Italian and Pizza Restaurant at Buckingham Square on West Bay Road promotes zesty tomato and sage soup as an appetiser.

Conch chowder is a traditional Caymanian stew. My Bar at Sunset House on South Sound Road serves a choice of red/tomato or white/cream base. Delicious!

Morgans Seafood Restaurant at West Bay present sTom Yum,  a hot and spicy Thai soup with shrimp to entice your taste buds.

Upstairs at Kaibo at Rum Point has created Heaven in a bowl! Chilled vichyssoise soup features blue point oyster beignet in oyster cream.

“Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.” – Auguste Escoffier.

Sources: salata, abdn

By Lisa Beauchamp