Heart-warming Soups

This is the season of heart-warming soups. Beat the winter chill with the goodness of these easy to make soups.

Spicy carrot soup

Ingredients

Small carrots—3
Small onions—3
Water—400 ml—2 medium-sized cups
Butter—10 grams
Mixed spice—1 teaspoon
Coriander powder—1 teaspoon
Lentils—2 tablespoons

Method

1. Finely chop onions and lightly fry in the butter until brown.
2. Finely chop carrots and place both the fried onions and chopped carrots in a pan with 400ml water.
3. Add the lentils and cook until the carrots are soft.
4. Add the mixed spice powder and coriander to the pan.
5. Simmer for 40mins.

Nutrition Quotient

 
This soup is enriched with Vitamin A. It is crucial for vision, maintaining healthy cells—particularly skin cells—for fighting infection and for promoting growth and development.

Spinach soup

Ingredients
Spinach—2 large bunches
Tomatoes—4-5 roughly chopped
Carrot—1 chopped roughly
Onion—1 chopped roughly
Potato- 1 large, chopped roughly
Rice—2 tablespoons
Water—3-4 cups
Garlic—7-8 cloves
Ginger—1 inch piece, roughly chopped
Salt/ Pepper to taste

Method

Boil all the ingredients together in pressure cooker for 15 minutes.
Mix in a liquidizer.
Finely strain through a stainless steel mesh.
Reheat and pour into individual soup bowls.
Garnish with a swivel of cream.

Nutrition Quotient—This low calorie soup is enriched with bone building calcium. Cooked spinach is an excellent source of iron, which is usually low in menstruating women. This winter you can also keep joint aches and asthma attacks at bay by having a bowlful of spinach soup, as it wards off inflammation. For example, asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis are all conditions that involve inflammation.

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