Spinach chickpeas soup

Soup are normally an appitizer or used as a starter but a soup lover like me enjoy it as a complete meal itself.Well some may say as how one can satisfy his hunger only by a soup then my this spinach cickpeas soup is really a good answer and that too a complete filling and satisfying meal.It tastes so good that with a slice of tosted bread at the side is more than enough for a cool night .So why dont you guys note down the ingredients and heat up you soup pot....

Ingredients:
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Red onion - 1 mediem size
Garlic cloves - 2 large
Spinach - 1 cup
Potato - 1 cup
Cick peas - 1 cup
Tomato paste - 1 tbsp
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vegetable broth cube- 1
Water - 2 cups
Salt and pepper - as per taste
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Olive oil - 2 tsp



Method:
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1.Cook potatoes and chickpeas seperately and keep aside.
2.Take a heavy bottomed pan ,add litlle oil and saute the onions and garlic untill they turn a bit transparent.To this add chickpeas and mix and cook for 5 mins .
3.Now add potatoes and saute .Now powder the broth cube or even you can add vegetable broth and season with salt pepper and other spices and simmer and cook for 10 mins.
4.Then add roughly chopped spinach ,add milk and mix properly and cook for another 5 mins in high.
5.Now serve hot with a pinch of paprika sprinkled on top.Enjoy....

Asparagus Soup

Asparagus is my altime favorite vegetable .It just make anything extra tasty i feel. I'm a soup lover. Just love any kind of soup so keep preparing soups of differnt varities.Well this one I saw in a book and found intersting and just dont even ask me how simple is it to prepare too I never even thought the waste edges which are very fibrous will add up to give such a wonderful flavour... Well to give a shot, experience the heavenly taste of this soup by your self and be contented just like me.

Ingredients:-
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Asparagus ends - 1 cup
Red Onion - 1 large
Vegetable broth cube -1 dice[OXO Company]
Water - 2.5 cup
Olive oil - 2 tsp
Milk - 1 cup [or halk cup cream]
Salt and pepper -for seasoning[1 tsp]



Method:-
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1.Take a heavy bottom pan , add oil and then saute the onions till the turn slightly golden then add the asparagus and saute for 2 mins.
2.Add the vegetable broth 2.5 cups .I have added one cube with water abd bring to a boil , season with salt and pepperand then cover and cook till the asparagus become tender.
3.Allow it to cool down and then blend it into a smooth paste .Strain it thro' seive if desired .
4.Then add the milk and heat it a bit so that it just begins to boil.Remove from the stove and serve hot with a roasted bun or bread in the side.Enjoy.....
5.This asparagus can be substituted to mushrooms too.You can use the chewy stems of the portabella mushrooms or even dried mushrooms too...

Peas Soup

Well as all of you know that im an absolute soup lover i have come up with another soup today.Its rich creamy ,simple and tasty.The mild color of this soup gives a soothening effect to my eyes,the creamy taste gives a pleasure to my tastebuds and all together it satisfys my stomach.This is a healthy recipe of soup which my husband liked a lot and also my contribution to pooja's theme of green pean for this week .

Ingredients:
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Green peas- 2 cup cooked
Milk -1 cup
Water -1 cup
Onion - 3 tsp
Oil -1 tsp
Ginger - 1 tsp
garlic -2 cloves
Pepper -1 tsp
salt - 1tap
Potato - 1 small[cooked]
greenchilly - 1 fresh


Method:
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1.Take 1/2 tsp of oil and fry off finely chopped ginger and garlic with 1 tsp of onion for 4 mins.
2.Take potato,water,peas,chilly and fried ginger, garlic in a blender and blend all together to form a puree out of it.
3.Take a pan add the puree and boil till all the raw smell goes off.
4.Add milk to it,season with salt and pepper , bring to a boil ,then simmer and cook for 4 mins.
5.Take 1/2 spoon of oil and fry the onions till they turn golden brown and keep aside.
6.Just when you are ready to serve top it with the crispy golden onions and enjoy hot.

Vegetable stew

Now a days its getting cooler and cooler out.So i always like to have a big cup of hot soup and cover myself with a nice blanket, just sit in front of tv and watch and watch my favorites shows.What else can give a coasy homely feeling in the season of cold winters.I always like to try out some new flavours in my soups.So i thought of trying a stew.Im am a soup lover and like to have more and always end up filling myself with only soup ,this made me prepare a stew which is filling and hot as i like them to be.Its quite nutritious with all the vegetables added to it.Here is a filling hot spicy stew recipe for all of you.

Ingredients;
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carrots- 1 cup
celery -1/2 cup
tomato -1 cup
tomato puree-1/2 cup
jalapeno-2 large
sweet corn -1/2 cup
beans-1/2 cup
capsicum-1/2 cup
onions-1 cup
Broccoli-1/2 cup
ginger garlic patse-1 tsp
pepper powder-1 tsp
paprika -1/2 tsp
coriander powder-1/2 tsp
cumin-1 tsp
Bay leaf-1 large dried
vegetable stock-1 cup
water -1 cup
celery leaves- 3 tsp
olive oil- 2tsp
salt-as per taste
italian seasoning-1 tsp


Method;
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1.Take a heavy bottomed pan add 2 tsp of olive oil,add cumin and allow it to splutter.
2. Add onions and saute them for about 2 mins ,then add ginger garlic paste and fry till brown, to this add carrots,and celery and saute it for 2-3 mins.
3.Then add diced tomatoes ,tomato puree and season with salt, pepper,coriander powder,paprika ,bay leaf and mix properly.
4.then add corn kernnels and remaining vegetables and add vegetable broth and close the lid and allow it to cook in medium heat for about 15 mins.
5.Later add water and see for the salt and spices and then cook on high for 5-8 mins.
6.Serve hot with bread toast at the side .Enjoy the cool winter with a large bowl of stew.

Sweet potato soup

Soups are the best dish to serve in this cool winter.This helps to keep onself warm and also is a easy way of serving a dilicious appitizer.This is a rich and creamy soup prepared out of sweet potato.Sweet potato is a very nutritive vegetable and is very easy to store. Just like potato can be store for days together.Its easily available in all the places .

Ingredients:
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Sweet potato - 1 medium size
Green chillies - 2 fresh
Milk - 2 tbsp
Macaroni - 3 tsp
water - 2 cups
Salt - 1 tsp
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Onion powder - 1 tsp
Garlic powder - 1 tsp
Ginger grates - 1/2 tsp
Italian seasoning- 1/2 tsp

Method:
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1.Wash ,peal and chop up the sweet potato and cook them till soft with pinch of salt and turmeric powder.
2.Blend together sweet potatoes,green chillies.ginger and milk so as to form smooth paste .
3.Now take a vessel add the puree and bring to aboil and then add garlic and onion powder,pepper powder and simmer and cook for 5 mins.
4.Mean while cook the macaroni in water and drain them and add it to the soup and then add the italian seasoning and bring to a boil adding enough amount of salt.
5.Finally add chopped cilantro[coriander leaves] and serve with some bread rolls at the side.

Tomato soup

As these days its pretty cold out ,i always try to prepare something hot to keep ourself warm.Ialways like spicy and hot dishes sothing like soups and hot rasams.So today i would like to share one such recipe of creamy soup with you.Tomato soup is one of my altime favorites.I like to have it with crunchy chips at the side or butter roasted bread bits dipped in it with 1/2 spoon of butter at the centre.This is the simplest soup what one can prepare but yet it tastes the best among all the soups.The lovely bright red colour and the sweetish sour taste of the tomato compliment with the spicy pepper added to it.

Ingredients:
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tomato puree- 2cups
water - 2 cup
Pepper - 1tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
corn starch - 1/2 tsp
garlic powder - 1/2 tsp
onion powder -1/2 tsp
basil powder - 1/2 tsp[optional]

Method:
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1.Take about 2-3 well riped tomatoes and pure it ito nice paste or even the store bought one small tin of tomatoe puree can be used.
2.Take a pan add 1/2 tsp of butter and allow it to melt,then add the puree to it and allow it to boil saute it occasionally.
3.Now when it boils add2 cups of water ,season it with salt and pepper.Then add onion and gralic powder and bring to a boil.
then add corn starch dissoleved in cold water and add it to hot soup slowly lowering the heat amd wisking continously.
4.Now if you dont have onin and garlic powder then chopp iboth about 1 tsp, lenthwise and thinly, then fry it in butter till it turns out crunchy and dark brown and add it to soup at the end and just heat it.it will taste even better.
5.Then at the end add add basil and serve hot with a small piece of butter served at the top and crispy chips in the sides.

Rich Vegetable soup

I feel soups are really the best part of a meal or a dinner for this cool winter .It not only makes some space for your up comming dishes but is also healthy .Here is a rich and healthy soup which not only looks great but tastes yummy.Believe me friends its a real treat.

Ingredients:
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Tomato -1
Onion -1
Carrot -2
Zukini -1
Beans -1/2 cup
Capsicum -1[I have uses 1/2 of 2 different colour
Celery - 2 leaves
Broccoli -1/2 cup
Olive Oil - 2 tsp
Ginger - 1/2 tsp[fresh grates]
Garlic powder- 1 tsp
Basil -1/2 tsp
Italian seasoning-1/2 tsp
Pepper powder-1 tsp
Red chilly flakes-1/2 tsp
Salt -1 tsp[as per taste]
Vegetable broth- 3cups
water - 1 cup

Ingredients:
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1.Take a pan add oil and the onion and saute them
2.when the onions turns transparent add carrot,celery,zukini ,beans,capsicum, broccoli,then season with salt and pepper and keep tossing them when they turn a bit brown at the edges
3.take a big soup vessel add 1/2 tsp of olive oil to it add vegetable broth,water and basil and italian powder,ginger,garlic powderand allow it to boil.Then add all the vegetables .
4.Close and simmer and cook for 10 mins.then open and season with half spoon of olive oil for the flavour.
5.Serve hot with buttered toast at the side.

Hint:
-Chop all the vegetable in samew size .this helps in same cooking time
-add all the vegetables in same order because its always better to add harder veggeis first so all get evenly cooked
-Just when you cook vegetables 2-3 together add extra water to it and then seperate and filter it and then store in bottles in fridge.even the channa or bean boiled liquid can repalce this vegetable broth.
-If you dont have broth in hand simple water will to add 1 tsp of ghee for the richness and extra flavour.

Hot and sour soup

All of us will want to have some thing hot and spicy on a cold freezy day. Here is a recipe of a soup which we can have on a any day. Its a blend of spicy as well as sour tastes with some veggies in it to munch with.

Ingredients:
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Water - 6 cups
Mushrooms-2/3 cup
Bamboo shoots - 1/2 cup sliced into strips
Bean sprouts -1/2 cup
Tofu -1 cup thinly chopped
Chilly flakes - 1 tsp
red chilly paste - 1 tsp ( optional)
Pepper powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Soya sauce - 4 tsp
Granulated sugar- 2tsp
Olive oil - 1 tsp
Corn starch - 2 tsp stirred in 1/2 cup of water
ginger - 1 tsp minced into a paste
Vinegar - 2 tsp


Method:
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1.Take 6 cups of water in a large vessel and bring to a boil.
2.Now add mushrooms, bamboo shoots saute, then add vinegar,soya sauce, olive oil to it and again bring to a boil.
3.Add salt ,pepper chilly flakes .granulated sugar and bring to a boil again. Then simmer and add the corn starch dissolved in water slowly to the soup by stirring constantly.
4.Simmer and boil for about 10 minutes.
5.Garnish with freshly cut green onions.