Sweet Potato with Chicken Soup-Recipe

(Chicken soup with mysterious twist of flavor)

Ingredients:- 750 ml chicken stock  of 500 gm chicken, 1 stalk lemon grass, 1 Sweet Potato peeled and cubed, 1tbsp lime juice, 6-7 button mushrooms, washed and cut in halves, 1-2 red chilies, 1 cup coriander finely chopped.

Preparation: Put the stock in a pan with lemongrass.  Let it simmer for about 20 minutes. Now add potato and let it cook till the potato is soft and tender. Add Lime juice, mushrooms, chili and shredded boiled chicken pieces.  Let it simmer for some time.

Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves finely chopped.

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Vegetable Sweet Corn soup: Recipe

(It is delicious to eat and easy to prepare)

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh sweet corn

1 finely chopped carrot

1 tbsp chopped cabbage

1/2 tsp sugar

½ tsp green chili sauce

½ tsp Soya sauce

1 tbsp corn flour

4 cups water

 Recipe: Put the fresh corn in pressure cooker to make it tender. Now, put it in a deep pan. Mix the corn flour in half cup water and keep aside.  Add water, salt, sugar, vegetables and chili sauce.  Mix well and boil, then add corn flour paste and stir.  Once it become thick and clear, stir in the soya sauce and put off the fire.  Serve hot.

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Russian Borscht- Recipe

(This Russian cuisine has great nutritional value and taste)

Ingredients:

Three cups of Chicken stock (for non Vegs.)  or plain water ( for Vegs.)

1 Cabbage

4 Potatoes

2 Beetroots

2 Carrots

Tomato paste

1 Small onion

5 Garlic bubblets

Parsley or dill

A cup of sour cream

Cut chicken or pork meat

 Recipe:  This soup requires extensive cooking.  Boil water/chicken stock for almost an hour along with peeled raw beetroots

 After boiling, take out beetroot and cut it into thick strips.  Put it back in the pan and boil the same for half an hour.   While it is being boiled, add diced potato.  Meanwhile, cut the carrot and fry it to later add into borsch.  Do the same with sliced onion.  Later, add tomato paste and stir it for some time.  Garlic is to be added in the fried onion-tomato mixture.

 Add nicely chopped cabbage into the borsch pan.  Potato should be boiled properly.  Chicken or pork meat to be added should be soft and tender. Add fried onion and carrot to it and mix everything.

 Leave the pan uncovered.  It is cooked and is ready to be served.  While serving borsch it is vital to have sour cream kept in a separate bowl.

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Cheesy vegetable tortilla soup-Recipe

(It is a nutritious soup with Mexican flavours)

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Serves: 5

Ingredients:

2 tbsp vegetable oil

3 finely chopped onions

2 Cloves of fresh Garlic ground to past

3 tbsp cumin powder

1 Cup tomato puree

1 finely chopped red bell pepper

3 Jalapenos

4 Cups of Vegetable broth

1 packet of American com

Salt to taste

Black Pepper powder to taste

1 packet of tortilla chips

1 cup of shredded cheese (Cheddar optional)

1 peeled and diced avocado.

Preparation:

-Head the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.  Add onions and sauté till they are gold brown.  Add garlic and cook for another two minutes.  Add cumin powder and cook for one minute.

-Add red bell peppers and jalapenos to the saucepan and cook for 10 minutes.  Pour in the tomato puree.  Cook for another 10 minutes till it blends with the tender vegetables.

-Pour in the vegetable broth.  Add salt and pepper as per taste and bring the mixture t boil on medium heat while stirring occasionally.  Reduce the heat to low and let the soup simmer for 30 minutes.

-Boil the American corn in a pressure cooker and add the boiled corn to the soup.  Continue cooking for five minutes.

-In a bowl, place tortilla chips and pour soup over it.  Top it with cheese and a few cubes of avocado. 

-Serve hot.

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Recipe: Palak-Mushroom Soup

(A great mix of ingredients, including health greens, this soup goes well with every meal.)

Ingredients:

Chopped Spinach

Two cups of cut mushroom

1 small onion

3 cups of water

1 bay leaf

2 garlic bubbles

1 cube of butter

Cream or mayonnaise (optional)

Crushed black pepper

Six cubes of Paneer

Salt to taste

 How to Cook:

-Wash spinach with hot water and then cut it nicely.

-Heat butter in a sauce pan on high flame and fry paneer in it. Take it out when it gets brown

-After taking out the paneer, fry bay leaf for some seconds.

-While bay leaf is being fried, add garlic and let it go browned.  It should be done on low flame.

-Boil mushroom separately.  This will be added later to the soup.

-Now, take onion and fry it.  While the process is on, add chopped spinach.

-Start the stirring process and add black pepper and salt.

-Now add three cups of water and boil the entire mixture.

-Take it off the flame and keep it to get cold. Blend it nicely in a mixer

-The soup has to be thick.  Now, add mushroom and paneer to it.

-Heat it again for some time.

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Curd Soup: Recipe

(It’s a tasty started as well as good for health)

The curd can be used in so many ways.  Curd soup is one of them.  Besides being a good started it is good for health.  It is digestive and can be used with spicy food to neutralize spicy effect of food. It prevents blood pressure to go up, boosts immunity and prevent teeth from decay.

Ingredients:

One finely chopped onion

Finely chopped stem curry leaves

One tsp mustard seeds

Two cups of curd

1.5 cup water

Two tbsp vegetable oil

Salt and black pepper to taste

Recipe:

-Mix and curd in a bow. 

-Heat the oil in a pan, Add mustard seeds and allow spluttering.

-Add curry leaves, onions and fry

-Add water, salt and black pepper and boil.

-Add the curd and stir continuously.

-Take off from heat after the first boil and serve hot.

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