Vegetable Soup

Serves:4 persons

Ingredients:

Any suitable kind of Vegetables like
Beans,Carrot,Green Peas,Cauliflower,Potato,Kohlrabi,etc.
Water
Salt
Pepper
Vegetable stock

For Vegetable stock:

Stock is a basic liquid which shall be used for any soup. It is made out of stock or so called stem of various vegetables or green leaves(Soppu)
1. Boil 2 cups of water.
2. Add Jeera,Lavanga,Chakke,Dhaniya,moggu, 1 carrot, coriander leaves stem(separate the leaves and add only the stem), Cauliflower stem(separate the cauliflower florets and add the white stems only), 1 chopped  onion. You also can add palak stem.
3. Boil well, Drain out the liquid and keep the liquid aside.
4. Keep the filtered vegetables aside

How to prepare the soup?

1. Pressurise all the vegetables mentioned in the top of this recipe along with the filtered vegetables (during the vegetable stock preparation),  for 3 whistles.
2. Add 2 cups of water and grind it in a mixer until the vegetables mash.
3.Transfer it in to a thick vessel, add pepper and salt.
4. Boil for 3 to 5 minutes

Serve hot

Hey Listen!!
The recipe sounds very lenghty, believe it, it is very easy to prepare. It is not so tedious as it appears.
Normally it is a practice to filter the grinded vegetables(step 2 in "How to prepare soup") and boil only the liquid portion. I do not suggest it, as we will loose the main substamce -the Vegetables.
Hence it comes out as a very healthy soup.
Have a try and i am sure you will like it

Tomato soup

Ingredients

5 to 6 Ripened Tomatoes
3 cups of Water
Pepper powder
Salt
Tomato sauce
Soya sauce
1 spoon Sugar
5 spoons cornflour

How to prepare?

1.Wash the tomatoes and pressure cook them for 3 whistles
2.Run it in a mixer with 1/2 cup of water
3.Transfer it to a thick bottom pan
4.Add corn flour and stir well, not to form lumps
5.Allow it to boil on medium flame.Add 3 cups of water, salt, pepper, tomato sauce,sugar and soya sauce
6.Let it boil well.
7.Add toasted bread pieces and serve hot

Ambadey

Ambadey is a fried dish, which tastes excellent escpecially when it is still hot.

Kadale bele:1 medium sized glass (or 1 measure)
Coriander leaves: Handful
Pudina: Handful
Coconut grated: 1 cup
Onions: 2 to 3, finely chopped
Salt: As per taste
Hing: a pinch
Green Chilly: 5 to 6
Very little water

How to Prepare?

1.Soak the Kadale bele in sufficient water for atleast 4 hours.
2. Grind the green chilies, a part of grated coconut and part of kadale bele, with very little water, few spoons.
3. Now grind rest of the kadale bele portion by portion in the mixer.
4.Mix everything with the left out grated coconut and little hing, along with coriander leaves, pudina leaves and onions.
5.Take small portions, heat oil in medium flame. Flatten this batter and fry it in the oil

Hey Listen!!If you would like the Ambadey to be crispy, do not grind to paste, that is, it should be only 60 to 65% paste not more


If you would like the Ambadey to come out soft, Grind it to paste

Serve hot. Best with Coffee or Tea

Veggy Dry Fry

Veggy dry fry is made of potatoes, Babycorn and Cauliflower. As the name indicates, it is a side dish which will turn to be dry, which can be consumed along with Chapatis or Dosas.

How to Prepare?

1. Cut cauliflower in to small flortes, babycorn in to slices and potato too in to small slices.
2. Heat sufficient oil in a pan. Add jeera, ginger and the above vegetables
3. When it is 3/4th cooked, add red chilly powder, salt, dhaniya powder, garam masala powder and little water. You can also add cinnamon powder and chat mansala powder if available.
4.Add little grated coconut and ½ spoon sugar
5. Garnish with coriander leaves and squeeze out ½ lemon
6. Fry it in medium flame until vegetables are fully cooked

Serve hot with preferably Chapatis

Hey Listen! If  you feel this is dry, you also can add 1/2 cup water and boil, to form a gravy

Paneer Peas Masala

Serves: 4 Persons

Ingredients:

Paneer: 10 medium sized cubes

2 Onions, sliced length wise

3 Tomatoes: finely chopped

Dhaniya Powder

Cream
Milk
Red Chilly powder: 2 to 3 spoons ideally, please alter it as per your requirement!
2 Green Chilies
Green Peas: 1 cup (Frozen can also be used)
Corn flour: 3 spoons
Jeera:1 Tbspoon
Turmeric powder
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Salt as per taste
1 small cup water
Coriander leaves
Lemon

How to Prepare?

1. Boil the Peas until cooked.
2. Heat Oil in a wok. Add mustard seeds, Jeera, green chilies, curry leaves, sliced Onions, turmeric powder, tomatoes, salt and fry well.
3. Add Dhaniya Powder, red chilly powder, corn flour. Mix well
4. Add 3 spoons milk, cream, boiled Peas, Paneer.
5. Add water and cook well on medium flame for 6 to 8 minutes.
6. Add Coriander leaves and squeeze out lemon juice

Serve hot.