Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:

Cauliflower (small flowerettes) - 1/4 cup

Carrot (chopped) - 1/4 cup

French Beans - 1/4 cup

Green Peas - 1/4 cup

Mushroom - 1/4 cup

Spring Onions - 1/2 cup

Cabbage - 1/4 cup

Veg Broth - 1 can /  Veg Seasoning - 1 cube
Pepper Powder - 1 tsp.
Corn Starch - 2 tblsp.
Salt - to taste

 
(can also add baby corns/corn/capsicum to the vegetables)
 
Method :

1. Heat butter. Add all vegetables and stir fry for 2-3 minutes on high flame.
2. Add veg broth/seasoning cube, water (as required), pepper powder, salt and bring it to a boil.
3. Then reduce the heat & add corn starch paste. Keep stiring until the soup turns thick & creamy.

4. Remove from heat after 5 minutes. Serve hot.
(You can add a little hot sauce/soya sauce when having the soup)

Mixed Vegetable Masala Bhath

Ingredients:

1 cup rice
1/4 cup red gram dal
Vegetables like potatoes, carrot, beans, peas, capsicum, brinjal, drum sticks chopped into long pieces
A small lemon size tamarind
Salt as per taste
2 tsp oil
Some curry leaves
1/2tsp turmeric powder
Few cashews
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp blackgram dal
1/2 tsp bengalgram dal

Masala paste-

2 green chillies
2 Red chillies
4 tbsp grated coconut
2 tsp cumin seeds

Method:

Cook the rice and dal together. Heat oil, add mustard seeds, bengalgram dal and blackgram dal. When it splutters, add curry leaves, cashews and vegetables and cook for some time till soft. Add the masala to it and fry well for five to ten minutes.

Add tamarind water, salt, turmeric and the cooked rice and dal. Mix well.

Serve hot with a bit of ghee, chips or raita.