Kitchen-Kollections

These days i have been experiementing with different varieties of soups. Last week, i tried with celery..this week i tried with peas and it came out quite well. All the veggies are boiled and i dont throw the water away as it contains all the essential nutrients. In case you want your soup to be thick and you can strain the excess water and use it as a vegetable stock for other recipes.

The season is changing..and winter is just around the corner…so kick off your body’s immunity with these nutritious soups!! try it out and let me know!

Ingredients

1 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup peas
5 spinach leaves
1 cup chopped carrot
1 cup chopped onion
2 crushed garlic pods
1/2 cup chopped spring onion
1 cup boiled corn

For garnishing
salt to taste
pepper powder
1/2 tbs sugar
Method

• Take a pot and add all the chopped vegetables and add 2 cups of water.
• Boil for at least 10-15 minutes and let it cool off
• Blend all the blanched vegetables in a blender and strain.
• Now heat the strained liquid and add salt, pepper and sugar.
• Add 1 cup of boiled corn and mix it well.
• Serve this delicious soup hot with croutons.

Hii all…seasons are changing..so better be prepared. This winter, i will make sure to have soups almost every alternate day. Soups are healthy and highly nutritious. Soups help in building resistance power and immunity. I am submitting this yummy celery soup for the event “No Croutons Required”

I came across one article about negative calorie foods and I was quite amazed at how nature provides with everything..it gives dates which are high calorie food as well as celery which is a negative calorie food.

Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though a food may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

Isn’t it wonderful!! Frankly speaking I never knew it in fact I used to eat celery only in salads..but this time i thought of using it in soup. This soup came out quite well. I love corn…so i always add cupful of corn in the soup..this time i added some seasoned croutons too..which gave really nice flavour!

You can garnish the soup with herbs like parsley, thyme or coriandar. Here is the recipe..Have the soup and enjoy the season!

Ingredients

4 sticks of celery chopped
2 carrots chopped
1 cup onion chopped
1 garlic pod
1 tomato
2 cups frozen corn

For garnishing

1/8th Crushed pepper
1 tsp Sugar
Salt to taste
Bread croutons

Method

• Put all the chopped vegetables in a pot. Add 2 cups of water and boil it on medium flame for 15 minutes.
• Using a colandar, strain the boiled vegetables. Do not throw the filtered water. It contains all the nutrients
• Now blend the boiled vegetables in a blender adding little bit of filtered water and then strain the whole blended mixture.
• Again heat the soup on medium flame and add salt, pepper, sugar. Keep stirring for 5 minutes and then switch off. The yummy celery soup is ready to be served!! Enjoy it with seasoned croutons!

Tomato carrot soup

This is a delicious and spicy soup and very easy to make. It has all the right elements to fight off cold or cough. Here are the main ingredients

Ingredients

1 blanched tomato
1 diced carrot
1 diced onion
1 clove of garlic
1 tsp corn flour
Salt to taste
Pepper and sugar (1/4th tsp)

Method

Boil carrot,onion and garlic. After the mix is cooled down, blend it in mixie along with tomato adding little water. Strain the whole mixture using a strainer.Now pour the mixture into a deep pan and let it boil for awhile. Add salt, pepper and sugar. Mix corn flour with litter water and add it. Boil it for 5 min more. Serve hot with bread sticks.