Showing posts with label Soups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soups. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Broth : 2 cups ( u can use chicken broth or vegetable broth or any broth according to ur wish)
Egg : 1
Pepper : 1/4tspn
Salt: 1/4tspn
Garlic powder :1/4tspn or u can use 1/2 garlic pod pounded
Ginger : 1/4tspn crushed
MSG :pinch
Soya sauce : 1/4 tspn
Vinegar :1/4tspn
Cornflour : 1Tbspn
Spring onions : few
Preparation :-
- If u have a ready to use broth u can skip this step otherwise take 1 bullion( I used knorr chicken bullion) and melt in 2 cups of water and bring to boil . With this broth is ready.
- Break 1 egg in a bowl and beat till it foams and put it aside.
- Take a bowl add cornflour and add 3tbspns of water and mix nicely without any lumps and put it aside.
- Chop Spring onions finely and put it aside.
- In boiling broth add salt , pepper powder , garlic , ginger ,MSG, soya sauce and vinegar.
- When this boils fully slowly add cornflour paste stirring simultaneously. This cornflour acts as a thickening agent. Let this boil again for a couple of minutes.
- In boiling soup slowly add beaten egg stirring simultaneously.
- Let this boil for 3 mins . Switch off stove. With this egg drop soup is ready.
- Take 2 soup bowls and add few chopped spring onions in each of them.
- Pour hot soup on this spring onions . Because of pouring hot soup on spring onions they get litely cooked and at the same time they remain crunchy.
- Serve them hot and enjoy home made egg drop soup.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
This is my mom's recipe . We just love it. After doing this u will only feel that making tomato soup is this easy . So frds stop buying ready made soup packets and start doing fresh and tasty tomato soup by yourself.
Preparation :-
- Take 4 plum tomatoes and 1/2 of a medium onion .
- Chop them into big chunks and boil them in cooker for 4 whistles .
- When pressure goes off Takeout that bowl and let it cool .
- Grind onion tomato mixture in a blendor .
- Now add enough water(dont add too much) and strain in a vegetable strainer ( plz dont try to use a tea strainer).
- Now heat a pan add 2-3 tspns of ghee or a small stick of butter . Add pinch of garam masala , 1/4 tspn freshly grounded pepper , if u like u can add basil (optional) . Now add 1 & 1/2 tspn maida directly and stir it and see that no lumps are formed . When boils are coming add little amount ( appx 1/2 cup) of strained tomato extract . Mix nicely . If no lumps are formed add remaining tomato juice and let it boil. (If u add whole juice at a time bottom maida may form lumps)
- Season it with sufficient salt , pepper , 1/2 tspn sugar .
- Add 1/4 cup milk and stir . Add pinch of red food colour .
- When it boils fully and when u get required thick consistency switchoff and serve hot with fried bread pieces and fresh cream.
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