HOT N SOUR TOMATO SOUP

Since its started winter and raining here, we need something hot to taste along with rusk
or bread toast. So I thought of preparing soup for us. Usually I wont take much risk and work hard in making soups in my kitchen. I had a fear if I try, it wont come as creamy and tasty as in hotels or in ready to cook ones.

Once I have tried using cooked dal along with few vegetables, and added salt and pepper at the last, for my son when he was an year old. Alas nobody liked that one and all my work went in vain. Then i decided no more soup preparations at home. Then we enjoyed them at hotels or from ready cook one.

This method is my incidental finding when i was surfing for something else a month back. I tried and it came out really well and we all enjoyed the hot and sour in the cool evening.

INGREDIENTS

Butter-5 tsp
chopped onion- 1/2 cup
All purpose flour or corn flour - 4 tsp
Milk - 4 cups
Bay leaf- 1/2
Sugar- 1 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1 1/2 tsp
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Tomatoes, chopped (fresh or canned) - 3 cups

PREPARATION

Melt the butter in a soup pot. Add the onion and cook over medium heat, stirring, until the onion is softened but not browned.
Sprinkle the flour over the butter mixture and continue to stir and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
Slowly add the milk, bay leaf, sugar, and salt and continue to cook and stir until slightly thickened.
Stir the baking soda into the tomatoes.
Add the tomatoes to the milk, and bring just to a simmer.
Remove from the heat and put through a strainer.
Add pepper powder before serving.
Taste and correct seasonings.
Serve hot.

U tooo enjoy the soup !!!!!!!!.........

THREE IN ONE JUICE

INGREDIENTS

Pine apple 1

Sweet lime 1

Lemon 1

Sugar 1 or 1 ½ cup

Salt very little pinch

METHOD

Cut the pine apple in to small pieces beat them in the juicer or mixer.

Beat some ice cubes along with the fruits.

Add lemon and sweet lime juice in it.

Run the juicer for few more mts.

Add sugar and salt.

Serve chill.

It is one of my husband’s favorite juice. We can get this in all juice shops in Chennai.

MIXED FRUIT KHEER

INGREDIENTS

Milk 6 cups
finely chopped
apple, mango, banana 2 cups
sugar 1 cup
fresh cream 1 cup
ghee 2 tsp
vermicelli 1 cup
vanilla essence 1 or 2 drops

METHOD

Fry vermicelli in ghee till it turns golden brown.
Boil milk until it become thick.
Add roasted vermicelli in milk and allow cook for few mts.
In a low flame gradually add sugar in to the milk stir continuously until sugar dissolved fully.
Add fruit mixture, essence, cream in to that mix it well. allow to cool.
Refrigerate for an hour and serve chill.

CARROT KHEER

INGREDIENTS

carrots 200 gms
milk 500 ml
cashew nuts 10 to 15
Badam 10
cardamom powder pinch

METHOD

soak both the nuts for 1 to 2 hrs
Peal the skin of badam
Peal the skin of carrot and cut into small pieces.
Pressure cook all items above said with little water.
Allow to cool and grind them to paste.
Add the paste in to boiled milk along with sugar. Cook for some more mts until the raw smell goes.
Add cardamom powder and serve chill.

BADAM KHEER

INGREDIENTS

Badam 100 gms
sugar 1 cup
Milk 3 cups
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Roasted Pista, cashew 2 tsp
kesari or yellow color powder pinch

METHOD

Soak Badam in hot water for 2 hrs and peal the skin.
Grind it with Little water and make it to a paste.
Fry all remaining nuts keep aside.
Boil 3 cups of water and add the badam paste, cook till the raw smell goes off.
Add sugar allow to dissolve in it then add the milk.
Add all remaining things. stirr contineously.
cook untill it becomes thick.

U can have either hot or cold.