Recipe: Manchow Soup Manchow Soup is a popular slightly spicy,tangy soup from the Indo Chinese cuisine. Full of vegetables, the soup is usually topped with deep fried noodles. This soup is excellent when one is down with a flu or sore throat. Up the ginger a bit and it makes a nutritious, soothing soup. The soup appears a bit darkish as a generous amount of soy sauce is used and some tomato ketchup too. Till now, I’ve only had Manchow Soup at the Indo Chinese restaurants. However, they can be a bit stingy when it comes to the amount of deep fried noodles that they give. Manchow Soup is not a part of the Chinese Cuisine. On the contrary this recipe originates in India. It…
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Continue ReadingRecipe : One Pot Ravioli Soup One Pot Ravioli Soup is a super easy, loaded with flavours, comforting and filling soup. Add any vegetables and ravioli of your choice. Top it up with some cheese and enjoy a different kind of hot dinner. Pasta and soup all rolled into one. Please note that the recipe given below serves 4 as a side dish and 2 as a main meal. Sharing One Pot Ravioli Soup Recipe With Sunday Funday Group I am the host for this weekend and just as well I chose Soups as the theme. A few weeks ago hubby and I cam down with this really nasty flu. It took forever to get over it. Still have that lingering dry cough. When hubby…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Ginger Garlic Soup Ginger Garlic Soup is a comforting, soothing, nutritious and easy to make soup. This soup recipe calls for an extra amount of fresh ginger and garlic. The vegetables are chopped up finely so that the soup is ready in 10 mins and also makes it easier to sip from a mug or cup. You know how chicken soup is recommended for colds, coughs and flu, well this Ginger Garlic Soup for the vegetarians. Gluten free, vegan and it uses only 1 tsp oil so that the ginger and garlic can be sauteed. I think it took longer to chop the veggies than to make the actual soup. I would recommend using a chopper to chop the vegetables as they have…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Beetroot Tomato Soup Beetroot Tomato Soup is a comforting, easy to make and healthy soup. With some warm spices, it is perfect for the cold season. With the weather so unpredictable at the moment, snow, rain, wind chills, storms, etc soups are so comforting and definitely warm up the body and soul. This cold season has given me the opportunity to redo some of my really old soup recipes. I had first posted Beetroot Tomato Soup on 20/05/2012. For sure had to add new photos as the old ones were not appetizing at all. Memories: Remembering Alsisar Year 2012 February hubby had a medical conference in Jaipur, Rajasthan. So we decided to combine his conference and my 50th birthday celebrations together. I love…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Malagasy Lasopy Malagasy Lasopy is simply a gluten free, vegan pureed vegetable soup. It usually is served with a condiment called sakay and some baguette on the side. Any fresh seasonal vegetables and meat bones are all added in the pot with a generous amount of water. The mixture is first brought to a boil and then allowed to simmer. This allows the vegetables to get cooked and the meat bones to lend the flavour to the soup. The bones are then fished out and the soup is pureed to a smooth creamy consistency. In this day and age baguette is not a must as that is more of a remnant from the French Colonialism Era. My Version Of Malagasy Lasopy As I don’t…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetarian Lasagna Soup Vegetarian Lasagna Soup tastes like lasagna with all that tomato sauce, veggies and cheese but so much easier than making lasagna. Every time I make baked lasagna I always get leftover with a couple of sheets or the broken sheets. This soup is so easy to make, super delicious, awesomely comforting during the cold season and hearty. The box with a few leftover lasagna sheets was in the pantry and every time hubby would go there, he would shake the box (duhhh!) and ask “when are you making lasagna?” So my answer always would be “Need to buy some more as those are not enough and you’ve now made them into more smaller pieces by shaking the box like a rattle!”…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup is a veggie version of the famous Mulligatawny Soup from the Indian Cuisine. Generally chicken or meat is added to this vegetable, lentil, curry powder soup. I’ve prepared a vegetarian version which is wholesome, nutritious, filling and so deliciously creamy. This soup is not spicy or hot but has subtle flavours of the curry powder used. Sharing This Recipe With FoodieMonday/Bloghop & Foodies_Redoing Old Posts To celebrate India’s Republic Day, we decided on the theme Colonial Inspired Cuisine. My contribution towards this themeis a curry house staple, mulligatawny soup. This soup was created by the cooks or khansamas for the British Officers and Memsahibs who enjoyed the traditional peppery Tamil rasam but would only eat it as a…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pak Choi Noodle Soup Pak Choi Noodle Soup is a comforting, filling, delicious soup that comes together within 20 minutes. Make it more wholesome by adding your choice of protein like chicken, fish, meat, tofu, eggs, etc. What Is Chinese Lantern Festival? Also known as Yuan Xiao, this festival is celebrated in China and other SE Asian Countries. It honours the deceased. This festival falls on the 15th day of the first month(yuan) of the lunar year. It also marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations and the appearnace of the first full moon of the lunar year. Colourful lanterns are an integral part of the celebration, thus the name Chinese Lantern Festival. Coming to food, small glutinous rice balls filled with…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: SOUPS RECIPE: BARLEY PUMPKIN SOUP Barley Pumpkin Soup is a Vegan Fall Season soup. Healthy, hearty, filling and tasty. Just when there a bit of a nippy chill in the evenings, this soup is so comforting. Usually with soups like this we don’t any bread slices or bread sticks as the barley is quite filling. A Bit About The Group Every month a member gets to suggest a theme. For this month Priya who blogs at The World Through My Eyes suggested we make healthy hearty soups as after all the festivities we will need light healthy meals. My Partner The unique thing about this group is that we pair the participants. They give each other 2 secret ingredients…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Apple Celery Soup Apple Celery Soup is easy to make, healthy, comforting, delicious home made soup. Ideal way to include celery in your diet. Well at least if you have ‘don’t like celery’ people in your family. While I enjoy tender celery sticks with cream cheese or finely chopped in salads, hubby is not a fan of raw celery. Therefore, the only way to get some celery included in his diet is through soups, in casseroles and occasionally in a juice if paired with fruits. Actually, come to think of it, I will not pick up celery like say we pick up potatoes or mushrooms at the grocery. It is bought if I have a specific recipe in mind. I like apple celery soup…
