Vegetable Soup

Soups are known for their health benefits.Often children wont prefer to take vegetables directly but soups are the easiest and best way to provide them with nutrients given by vegetables. We can see many ready made soups available in the departmental stores where we have to just add water and boil it for a few minutes. But i always prefer to prepare it homemade.

The total preparation time takes only 30 min including the cooking time. Just we have to cook all vegetables, make it to fine paste and boil by adding water,sugar,salt and pepper powder. 


Ingredients:

Carrot ( chopped ) - 1
Beans ( chopped ) - 1/4 cup
Potato - 1 
Peas - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1
Tomato - 250 gms
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Coriander Leaves - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Pepper Powder- as per taste
Sugar - 1 tsp
Crisp Bread pieces - few



Method:

• Wash all vegetables and cut them in to medium sized pieces except Peas. 
• Take a pan and add ghee to it. Now add ginger garlic paste. Fry for few minutes till raw smell goes.
• Now add all the chopped vegetables, coriander leaves and peas. Pressure cook it with enough water or until all the vegetables immerse fully in water.
• Cook this in the pressure cooker until you hear 4-5 whistles.
• Once the cooker eases bring it to cool completely.
• Drain water and preserve it for further.
• Transfer the cooked vegetables to a mixer grinder and add the drained water which we got from the last step and grind it to a fine paste.
• Pour the paste and add remaining drained water and boil it for a few min. Add Sugar, Salt, Pepper Powder as required.
• You can add Crisp Bread Pieces on top of the Soup while serving.

Eggless Chocolate Cake Recipe

Eggless chocolate cake :

I did some modifications to the vanilla cake recipe which i posted earlier, to make this chocolate cake. Because my son didn't like the flavor of vanilla, he likes to eat chocolaty.

Ingredients:

Cocoa Powder- 2 tsp
Condensed milk - 400 ml
Sugar - 1 tbs
Salt - 1 pinch
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
All Purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Milk ( at room temperature ) - 1/4 cup

Method :

Sift all purpose flour twice and keep aside. Take butter at room temperature in a bowl. Add condensed milk, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar and mix it till it becomes smooth. Add cocoa powder and all purpose flour and mix well. Now add milk little by little and make the batter in thick pouring consistency. Pour the batter in the greased pan and tap it to even it out. Bake it  at 180C till the bottom had started to brown. Or you can insert a sharp knife in to the cake, if it comes without any dough clinging, it is ready. Normally it'll take 40 - 45 min. Transfer the pan to the cooling rack and cool it completely and then slice it. Your egg-less chocolate cake is now ready. Kids like this chocolaty cake very much...

Notes:

Don't forget to take the quantity of sugar in lesser amount because already we are using condensed milk for this recipe.