Caldo, Sopa, Cocido, Fabada?
Tengo una pregunta. ¿Qué es la diferencia de las palabras caldo, sopa, cocido y fabada? ¿Hay más típios de fabada, o es fabada asturiana la sola?
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Aunque hay muchas diferencias regionales, para mí:
Caldo (solo líquido):
Sopa (de fideos, de arroz, de pescado, del cocido, de verduras, de pan, de ajo, castellana, de picadillo... Mil variantes):
Cocido (muchas variantes también, pero lleva garbanzos, carne, patatas...):
En España es muy famoso el cocido madrileño (pero no es el único):
Fabada (con alubias). La más famosa en España es la fabada asturiana:
I don't know fabada. But here in Baja caldo and cocido are both what I would call stew. Sopa is used for speghetti or other noodle dishes. Sometimes wet like noodle soup and other times dry, but always noodle based.
Can't wait to see more answers.
This is probably regional.
I went to my local Spansh restaurant run by Catalans [in the UK] last week and I had a cold and the owner bought me 'caldo' I thought it would be a type of stew but I would describe it as consomé or a rich stock - clear with a few pieces of meat and thinly sliced carrot.
I have eaten fabada at another Spanish restaurant owned by a man from Madrid and it was a bean stew with some chorizo and morcilla. I think the beans are called fabada but here we use butterbeans or sometimes cannelloni. I am sure in Asturia where it is traditional, each person has their own recipe. It is a hearty dish from a part of Spain with hardy farmers and also miners. Sopa = Soup of which there are many varieties.
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"Caldo" is a clear soup such as a broth. A broth sometimes will have meat in it but generally it's just the flavor. It's light and generally not very filling so I use chicken broth or beef broth rather than water for a more flavorful, heartier and meatier "fabada" which is a stew.
Stews have lots more meat and/or vegetables and/or pastas and/or beans. In your case the Asturian stew was made of beans, pork sausage and bacon. It makes a meal and is filling.
I'm sure others will have more ideas.
In Italy they have exactly the same sopa called " Brodo", usually beef stock.
Tortolini in Brodo
