Vegetable Soup

Vegetable Soup

Soup can be a quick and healthy food. The American Heart Association recommends adults consume eight or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day. That's 4 ½ cups. Soups can contribute to that total. Vegetables in soup contain many vitamins, such as A and C. Cream soups supply calcium and vitamin D. Because soup contains so much water it fills you up with fewer calories.

Here I'm giving a easy preparation for Vegetable Soup.

 

Ingredients 

Group- A

Chayote / Chow Chow (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup

Pumpkin (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup

Radish (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup

Group- B

Beans (finely chopped) - *

Carrot (finely chopped) - *

Cabbage (finely chopped) - *

* all the 3 combined to make 1/4 cup

(You can add any vegetable of your choice)

Garlic - 2 small cloves

Ginger - a very small piece 

Pepper powder- as required 

Salt- as required 

Method

Pressure cook Chow chow, Pumpkin, Radish in one group (Group- A) and Cabbage, Beans, and Carrot in another group (Group- B) separately. Don't waste the cooked water. 

Take the first group and mash it well to become a smooth paste.

In that vegetable paste, add the cooked water and cooked veggies of group B. Add salt. Add water if required. 

Bring to boil for 5 - 10 minutes in medium flame.

Switch off the flame. Add pepper powder. Garnish with coriander leaves.

 

Serve hot.

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Tomato Soup

Tomato Soup

Tomato contains amazing amounts of Lycopene which is said to have anti-oxidant properties.  We use tomatoes for almost in all dishes. 

A few health benefits are given below:

It has high fiber so are widely used by people who are health conscious. 

They are good for improving skin porosity and are widely used in the manufacture of skin care and beauty products.

 

The organic facts of tomatoes are:

- Aids in digestion

- Blood purifier

- Improves vision

- Prevents gallstones

- Lowers hypertension

- Good source of antioxidants

- Prevents Urinary tract infections

- Reduces Cholestrol & protects heart

- Counters bad effects of cigarette smoking

- Reduces oxidative stress of type 2 diabetes

The Nutrient content of tomato is:

- Dietary Fibre - 5%

- Protein - 2%

- Carbohydrates - 1%

- Calories - 1%

The Vitamin content of tomato is:

- Vitamin C - 21%

- Vitamin A - 17%

- Vitamin K - 10%

- Folate - 4%

The Mineral content of tomato is:

- Pottasium - 7%

- Manganese - 6%

- Phosperous - 3%

- Copper - 3%

100g of tomatoes provide 21% of daily requirement of Vitamin C.

Soup is one of our favourite dish and here I'm going to share the preparation. 

Ingredients

Tomato - 3

Onion - 1

Garlic - 4 to 5 cloves

Ginger - 1 inch

Green chilli (optional) - 1

Butter - 1 tsp

Coriander leaves - 5 to 6 strands

Pepper powder - as required

Salt - as required

Fresh cream - 3 tbsp

Method

Select fresh,reddish, ripe, bigger hybrid variety i.e., Banglore tomato. Cut tomatoes and onion into medium sized pieces.

Pressure cook cut tomatoes, cut onion, garlic, ginger and green chilli. You can also microwave it for 10 -12 minutes or more minutes till it becomes soft. Allow it to cool for few minutes.

Grind the above into a fine paste. Add some water to the paste and filter it thoroughly. Discard the chunks.

Heat butter on a sauce pan and add the filtered sauce. Boil the sauce for 5 minutes. Switch off the flame. Add salt and pepper powder. Add fresh cream and coriander leaves.

Serve hot with soup sticks.

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Murungaikkai Soup

Murungaikkai Soup or Drumstick Soup


The unique flavored drumsticks are not only popular with their taste but also with its  health benefits too.

Drumstick pods, leaves consists of rich amounts of minerals, phyto-nutrients, dietary fiber and vitamins that are essential to stay healthy.

Drumstick benefits 

• Drumsticks contains of an array of minerals including calcium, manganese, magnesium and iron. 
• Drumsticks contain rich amounts of oleic acid which is an essential mono-saturated fatty acid necessary for our body.
• Drumsticks are rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C helps in the reduction of respiratory problems like asthma, common cold and works against the congestion and blockage in the nose and ears.
• Apart from the above benefits it helps to boost up the immune system and to combat with various infections.
• Drumsticks helps digestion. The drumstick pods and leaves contain good amounts of B complex vitamins such as vitamin B6, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid, which are considered as vital vitamins to regulate the digestion. 
• Drumstick pods as well its leaves are the best sources of vitamin A, which is highly used in the age reducing beauty products. Vitamin A is also popular to foster the good vision and to boost up the immune system.
• Both the drumstick leaves and pods have the property of purifying blood. It also works like an antibiotic.
• Drumsticks are recommended for pregnant women in order to ease the delivery problems. It also used to enhance better lactation in mothers.

Drumsticks are mostly used in the preparation of Indian dishes.

Here I'm going to give a very healthy and delicious drumstick soup which you all like to taste.


Ingredients

Drumstick or Murungaikkai - 3
Onion -1
Tomato -1
Green chilli -1
Sombu or Fennel seeds -1 tsp
Pattai or Cinnamon - 2
Pepper -1/2 tsp

 

Krambu or Cloves -1
Cardamom -1
Butter -2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1 pinch
Fresh cream -1 tbsp (optional)
Salt - to taste
Pepper powder - to taste
Curry leaves -1 strand
Coriander leaves -3 strands

Method

Cut drumsticks into small fingers. Half boil the drumsticks with turmeric powder and take pulp, mash it and keep aside.

Cut onion, tomato and green chilli into small pieces.

Heat butter in a pan; roast cinnamon, fennel seeds, cloves, pepper, cardamom, adding one by one. Roast the spices in medium flame.

After roasting all the mentioned spices, add curry leaves, onion and continue frying.

When the onion becomes transparent, add tomato. When it becomes soft, switch off the flame. This is the masala for the soup. Let it cool for few minutes.

 

Grind the masala to fine paste. Check if there is no chunks are left. If there are chunks, then add some water to it and filter it.

Add the mashed drumstick and salt to the filtered masala, and bring to boil in medium flame. Add water, if required.

When it boils with bubbles continuously, switch off the flame. Garnish with pepper powder and coriander leaves.

If you like to add freshcream, add at this stage.

Serve hot with soup sticks.

Howz this, friends? Try this and post your valuable comments. I'll meet you with another healthy and delicious recipe. Bye.

Beetroot Soup without Onion & Garlic

Beetroot Soup without Onion & Garlic

Today I tried a very different soup. All these days I was thinking that Soups cannot be done without Onion and Garlic but to my surprise, today I didn't use any garlic or onion, and it came very well.  You don't believe; My father-in-law will never take any contemporary dishes such as soups, but today, after tasting the soup, he asked for the second time. Oh! that was a great thing. I felt like, "VASHISHTAR VAAYAAL BRAHMARISHI PATTAM VAANGINADHU POLA"...

 

 

Ingredients

 

White Pumpkin (Chopped) - 1 cup

Beetroot (Chopped) - 1 cup

Sweet Corn - 1/2 Cup

Tomato - 1

Ginger - a small piece

Green Chilli - 1

Coriander leaves (finely Chopped) - 1/4 cup

Cumin Powder - 1tsp

Pepper Powder - 1tsp

Salt - to taste

(Actually I used the water of pumpkin, beetroot and corn which I boiled separately in pressure cooker for today's lunch.)

 

Method

 

Boil the Pumpkin, Beetroot and Corn separately in a pressure cooker. Don't drain the water.

Peel off the tomato skin and cut it into big pieces.

Grind tomato, green chilli, ginger and little coriander leaves. Make it to a fine paste.

Take a thick bottomed pan, add the paste, boiled vegetables with the water and cumin powder and mix it well. Bring to boil in low flame.

Add salt.

Garnish with pepper powder and coriander leaves. Serve hot.

 

As it is without Onion and Garlic, we can take during our Vrath days also.

Have a nice day.