Lentil Soup/ Daal shorba

Daal shorba

Lentil Soup

 

 Ingredients...

Tuvar daal or yellow lentil– 1/2 Cup
Lemon Juice – 4 tbsp
Green Chilli – 1
Cumin Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper Powder – pinch
Desi ghee – 1 tbsp
Turmeric – 1/2 tsp
Salt to Taste

Method

Soak the daal in 2 Cups water for one hour. Drain it

Pressure cook the daal with the 3 cups fresh water upto 3-4 whistles

Strain the daal and save the stock.

Mash the dal completely with ladle.

Add the daal stock, one more cup water, turmeric powder, and pepper powder.

Bring to a boil.

Turn off the heat.

Let the soup cool and add the lemon juice.

Tadka

In a tadka pan , heat the ghee

Add the cumin seeds and splutter till they start to turn brown.

Add the green chilli .

Add salt.

Give final stir and serve hot

Mango Soup

Mango Soup

Ingredients

Ripe Mango 1
Vegetable Stock/ water 2 cups
Fresh ginger 1/2 inch
Coarse grounded fresh black pepper 1 tsp
Black salt to taste
Mint leaves few
Mango chinks for garnish

Method

Peel and cut mango pulp in chunks.
Put in blender with water/ vegetable stock.
Add black salt and fresh ginger. Add 3-4 mint leaves
Blend to smooth puree.
Pour in indivdual bowls.
sprinkle black pepper.
Garnish with mango chunks, mint leaves and dollop of fresh yogurt.
Enoy this cold mango soup.

Minestrone soup

 

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Ingredients...

2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 chopped onion
2 carrots, cut into slices
100 gm green beans, cut into pieces
1 stalk of celery, cut into small pieces
2 large tomatoes, cut into cubes
1 cup small pasta
1 liter of vegetable stock
400g peas
Salt & Pepper & Thyme
Fresh chopped parsley for garnish

 Method

In a skillet over medium heat add olive oil & onion & fry onions till soft & golden.
add the green beans, Carrots ,Celery, Tomatoes & Stock, wait till it boils & leave it to simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the Pasta then leave to simmer for 5 more minutes then add the peas & cook for another 5 minutes.
Add Salt, Pepper & Thyme according to taste.
You may also add more stock or water according to your taste.
Serve with bread & garnish with freshly chopped Parsley.

Grilled Tomato soup with Cheese

So flavourfull........


Grilled Tomato soup with Cheese

 

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Ingredients:
3-4 tsp Extra virgin olive oil.
1 big onion, chopped
1 kg of tomatoes, halved
8 garlic cloves, sliced
1 tsp sugar
2 cups of vegetable stock
salt and freshly ground white pepper

For decoration:

1/4 cup of olive oil
100 g of mozerella cheese, cubed small.

Method:

Preheat the oven to 175 deg C .

Put a 2tsp Extra virgin olive oil and sautee the onions till slightly colored, add the sliced garlic and sautee and toss the lot till the onion is tender.

Take out a baking pan, cover it with aluminum foil and drizzle some olive oil on it. Spread the olive oil evenly all over the pan until you get a fine film of oil covering it. Cut the tomatoes in half, place them in the pan, cut side up, brush the top with olive oil, salt and pepper them before putting them in the oven to bake for 40 minutes.
Once done, take the pan out of the oven and then peel and discard the skin off of every tomato

. Puree the tomatoes with the onion, garlic and sugar and the 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil.

Place tomato mixture and vegrtable stock in a pan and bring to the boil.

Te serve:

Pour the hot hot soup into individual soup bowls, place 2/3 small cubes of mozeralla cheese in the center, drizzle some olive oil around them.


Enjoy grilled tomato Soup with oozing melting cheese