Roasted Carrot Soup Recipe | Soup Recipes

        Carrot soup Recipe a simple soup made with carrot, potatoes. Soups is a winter friendly food or for any season If you suffer from cold.During December to February on those cloudy, drowsy nights I feel like grabbing one bowl of this warm soup after I get comfortable under my comforter.

Kollu Rasam/Horsegram Soup/Diet Recipe

                Kollu is one among the grains which is very healthy and good for people with overweight.There is a saying in Tamil "koluthavanuku kollu " that means If you are fat then horse gram is for you.So this rasam helps you in losing weight /cholesterol.
                I recently visited India and got a whole kg of horse gram.So I thought of making our favorite rasam.I thought of adding this healthy horse gram to our favorite rasam.I boiled horse gram and filtered the water then followed the same procedure for making.I used the cooked kollu for making chutney.The rasam tasted awesome.You can make rasam in so many varieties.Mentioned are the methods.

Variations:

• Add boiled Dal(paruppu) to make it Dal rasam
• Add boiled tomato to make it tomato horse gram rasam
• Add Rasam powder to make it instant horse gram rasam
• Even you can powder the horse gram and add it along with black pepper and cumin.

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Preparation Time:20 min(pressure cooking)
Cooking time:15-20 min
Serves:2-3

Rasam Recipe/Tomato Rasam

      Tomato Rasam is a flavourful soup with tomatoes ,spices,tamarind cooked in low flame.There are many rasam recipe variations like puli (tamarind) rasam,lemon rasam,paruppu(lentils) rasam,pineapple rasam,Kollu(horsegram) rasam,Tomato rasam.
     Among all of the above i do only 2-3 rasam recipe variation.Rasam especially served for breastfeeding mothers and toddlers..I sometimes avoid tamarind and use lemon/lime instead.Whenever there is non-veg items in home my mom defenitely makes this Tomato rasam.
    This Tomato Rasam has pepper which aids digestion ,Jeera  which soothes stomach....But whatever variety of rasam you prepare it is very very light .
    You can use rasam powder which is more easier when you are in a hurry preparing meals for lunch box.But instant rasam is more handy when you don't have rasam powder .

Preparation time:5 min
Cooking time:10 min
Serves:2-3

Spinach soup/Easy Soup recipe

Spinach is one healthy green. But its difficult to get kids to eat spinach . I came up with this soup recipe to get my little one to eat spinach.Its very easy and healthy .You can drink before your lunch on a rainy day to enjoy the atmosphere.

Ingredients:

• 20 leaves of spinach.
• 1 small Onion.
• 1 small  tomato
• 1 green chili.
• 1/4 tbsp pepper and cumin seeds powder.
• 2 tbsp cheese.
• oil for saute.
• Salt as required

Method:

• Cook and blanch the spinach.
• Blanching the spinach makes it retain its color.
• Cut the tomatoes and onion in to large pieces.
• Add oil  to a hot pan and saute onions and green chili until translucent.
• Add tomato and cook them until they turn soft.

• Grind the spinach ,onion and tomato in a blender.
• Add the puree to a hot sauce pan and let it boil for 5 min, until the raw smell of spincah dissipates.

• Add pepper ,cumin powder and salt.
• Serve it hot with grated parmesan cheese.

Note:

• You can add more cheese to the end while you are serving.
• Adjust the salt and pepper according to your taste.

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Cauliflower Soup-Chettinad Style

This past week has been cold, rainy and down right dreary here. I guess it was a perfect time to have a soup for lunch. This soup is very nutritious, it has Veggies Dal and it tastes really good.

This is an easy way to get toddlers to eat their veggies. You can make this soup with any vegetable but we like it with cauliflower. Here is the recipe.

Vegetarian Black Bean Soup|Spicy Bean Soup

        Black Bean Soup-One of the classical dishes of Cuba,Mexico is black bean soup.This is a Spicy vegetarian version(no meat) of black bean soup with chili and coriander powder.We usually have this soup for dinner at least once a week.Soak the beans for minimum 8 hours if using dried ones.If in case you forgot ,soak the black beans in hot water for 4 hours at least.
    Lentils are the staple protein diet for any vegetarian.Being a vegetarian i love all the beans and lentils.This black  bean soup has been my favourite for almost 3 years now.

 Health benefits of  Black turtle bean :
      Black bean is iron rich and is rich in potassium,magnesium,calcium and vitamin B6.Also rich in folate and has high dietary fibre.

Variations you can make with this soup:

1.  You can add grated cheese or cheese slices to make a creamy soup.
2.  You can use canned beans , filter the water and wash the beans again in fresh water.
3.  You can use fresh sliced mushrooms.This step is completely optional.
4. You can use hot sauce along with chili and coriander powder.

                                 *this pic of soup is without mushrooms and cheese.

                 

PineApple Rasam

Rasam is a watery soup served as an appetizer. In South India people eat Rasam Sadham as second course for lunch. I usually make Rasam once a week.

In Regular Rasam Tamarind is used to provide the tangy taste. This recipe uses pineapple instead
of  tamarind. It reminds me of the sweet and sour dishes that you get in Chinese restaurants.

This week I brought a pineapple, and had some of it left over. I thought I would make Pineapple Rasam today. In Chettinad Marriages Pineapple Rasam is served as a special dish. Its a tasty variation to regular Rasam.

Preparation time:10 min

Cooking time:10 min

Serves:2