Hot Veggie and Chicken Soup

Hot soup will taste good in the winter evening with dinner rolls, soup n roll is the best food for the light dinner. Yesterday, i made this soup for our dinner with Portuguese rolls tasted hot n superb in the Rainy n Cold Evening. This soup contains both veggie, Chicken and also greens, it will taste good n very healthy soup for all ages. Vegeterians can add mushroom in your soup, simply veggie soup taste good. Here, is the recipe for the soup.

Ingredients:

1.Grated Carrot - 1
2.Grated turnip - 1 medium
3.Chopped Baby Spinach - 10 leaves
4.Chicken Breast strips - 1 cup
5.Sliced Onions - 1/2 medium
6.Canola Oil - 2 tsp
7.Mushroom soup mix - 3 tbsp
8.Salt - to taste
9.Turneric powder - 1 tsp
10.Crushed Black Pepper - 2 tsp

For Rough Grinding:

1.Green Chillies - 1
2.Cumin/Jeera Seeds - 1 tbsp
3.Chopped Ginger - 1"
4.Garlic Pods - 2 no's

Preparation:

1.Grate the veggies nicely, Slice the onions and chop the spinach. Keep it aside.
2.Grind the chilly,jeera, ginger n garlic all the ingredients roughly.
3.Heat the oil in the pressure pan , saute the sliced onions till it turns translucent then add the grated and chopped veggies n greens.
4.Saute it for 2 mts and then add the 2 cups of hot water and salt. Pressure cook for 4 whistles.
5.After it cooked well, liquidise the veggie mixture for 1 round in the blender or mixer.
6.Cook the chicken breast with the ground ingredients,turmeric powder and Salt for 2 whistles.
7.Open the lid of the pressure pan add the liquidised veggie mixture to the chicken, leave it cook in medium flame. (if you want the soup bit watery then add hot water at this time)
8.Meanwhile mix the mushroom or any other soup mix in little bit of water and add it to the soup pan.
9.Stir it well and close the pressure pan without the weight in the lid for 5 mts.
10.Now the Hot Veggie and Chicken Soup is ready to serve with Dinner Rolls. Sprinkle some crushed black pepper while having the soup.

Green Salad with Orange and Chicken n Corn Soup

My Hubby has Presented me the book contains salad recipes on Sunday. While doing shopping, he went inside the book store and he bought something and get one gift wrapped parcel. He gave that to me and said his present for me. I can't wait to open the gift wrap, surprise!!!!  the book about different kinds of Salads. Yesterday, usual weekday work hectic day for me after finished all the works planned to cook easy food for our dinner. I was busy in preparing for "Tamil New year" on wednesday 14th of April 2010. 


Instantly, i go through the salad book to make easy salad for him and i got "Green Salad with red cabbage and grapefruit", but i don't have red cabbage so i substitute carrot for that and Naartjie for Grapefruit. For soup easy to make with chicken, mushroom and corn soup. Here the recipe for salad and soup as follows, 

Green Salad with Carrot and Naartjie

Ingredients:

1.Crisp Lettuce - 2 leaves

2.Naartjie - 1

3.English Cucumber - 1/2

4. Cut Carrots like match sticks - 1

5.Nuts as you prefer - i used walnuts

6.Honey - 1 tbsp

7.Salt n Pepper for seasoning.

Preparation:

1. Cut the cucumber and carrots as like in picture and cut the lettuce with ur hands ( don't use knife to cut the lettuce).

2.Peel the naartjie (kamala orange) and cut into segments, while cut into segments you will get a juice of naartjie store that in small cup.

3.Mix the naartjie juice, honey ,salt and pepper.

4.Now arrange the lettuce, carrots , cucumber and naartjie in serving plate. Sprinkle the roughly chopped walnuts and salad dressing ( honey mixture) over the serving plate. 

5.Now the Green Salad with Carrots and cucumber is ready to serve.

Chicken, Mushroom and Sweet corn Soup

Ingredients:

1.Chicken Breast - 1 piece ( approx around 50 gms)

2.Frozen Sweet corn - 1/2 cup

3.Mushrooms - 1/3 of punnet

4.Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp

5.Canola Oil - 2 tsp

6.Green chillies - 1 

7.Pepper powder - 2 tsp

8.Salt - 1 tsp

Preparation:

1.Roughly chop the chicken breast and mushrooms into bit sizes. Heat oil in the pressure pan, season the cumin seeds follow with chicken pieces, mushrooms and corn.

2.Saute for 5 mts, then add the green chillies and salt.

3.Pour 2 cups of warm water and pressure cook for 4 whistles.

4.Cool down the mixture and put it in the blender for 3 rounds.

5.Season with pepper powder or if you need bit spicy add finely chopped green chillies on top.

6.This chicken mushroom n corn soup is easy to make and very healthy for all ages.

My Hubby's B'day Blast with Candle Light Dinner

26th of March, Yesterday was my Hubby's bday celebrated with Candle Light dinner. Usually, I have invite all of our friends on his b'day, but this time we decided this month candle light dinner on this day. Every month for Candle light dinner , the recipes and cuisines will change. This month on my Hubby's B'day, i decided to make a menu depends on his favourite recipes. He has fond of Chinese, Malay and non-spicy foods, then i made a list of 5 recipe names in each criteria for 4 course meals. Finally, he selected Thai food recipes.

  Thai food recipes takes only few minutes to cook only thing is cutting takes little bit time that too not hard, i finished quick, quick. For me cooking vegeterian food takes time it's a big hazard ,but for non-veg woooow!!!!! finish earlier than veggies and easily. Since after our marriage i order his B'day cake to cut. But, this time baked his B'day cake myself and done Marshmallow fondant.It came out right, but not that much perfect like our pastry shop cakes finishing.Anyway, My Hubby was very happy on his B'day cake baked with full of my love.

Before he comes from work, i finished all my cooking and set the table for candle light dinner with recipes in serving bowls.We usually start the dinner at 7 pm on candle light dinner day, but on yesterday it was very dark early at 6 pm cos of winter is coming. In summer, till 8 pm the brightness will be here like daytime. We enjoyed  my Hubby's B'day with Candle light dinner.

The Menu for my hubby's b'day and for our Candle light dinner as follows,

1.Veggie Spring roll
2.Manchow Soup
3.Chicken Satay with Spicy Peanut Butter Sauce
4.Thai Red Curry with Rice
5.Pad Thai Chicken Noodles
6.Schezwan Fried Rice
7.Shop Bought Ice Cream and B'day cake with cream for Dessert

This time was less recipe menu than before, but all recipes are my Hubby's favourite. My Hubby enjoyed all the foods and he also gave the rank to the recipes, the first rank goes to Schezwan fried rice.We enjoyed together his B'day and Candle light dinner with lots of fun.

Veggie Spring Roll and Manchow Soup

Manchow Soup is my Hubby's favourite Chinese Soup.Yesterday, for his B'day made this soup for him. I haven't tried this soup on myself only in restaurants we tasted, this was the first time cooked myself. It came out very nice and tasty and my Hubby enjoyed a lot with chewy noodles and veggies. First, in my list of recipes for my hubby's b'day got tom yam soup. But, my Hubby didn't want shrimps for his b'day menu. Then, i decided to make Manchow Soup from Siddhi's blog. Siddhi is my favourite blogger friend with a cute smile, She got a more colourful and Vibrant blog with superb spicy food recipes and tempting desserts. I like all food from her blog, especially manchow soup and all dessert items. Here is the recipe follows for you,

For Manchow Soup:

Ingredients:

1.Shredded Cabbage - 1 cup
2.Finely chopped Carrots - 5 tbsp
3.Chopped Mushroom - 1/2 cup
4.Chopped Green Bell Peppers - 1/4 cup
5.Chopped Red Onions - 5 tbsp
6.Finely Chopped Spring onions - 3 tbsp
7.Finely Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
8.Finely Chopped Garlic - 1 tbsp ( Garlic os not much hot like Indian Garlic, use according to it)
9.Finely Chopped Green Chillies - 1
10.Lemon juice - 2 tsp
11.Chicken stock - 4 cups ( i used 2 cubes)
12.Dark Soy Sauce - 1 tbsp
13.Chilli sauce - 2 tbsp ( i used garlic chilli sauce)
14.Black Pepper powder - 1 tsp
15.Corn Flour - 1 tbsp ( use according to your desired soup consistency)
16.Cooked Noodles - 1 cup ( i used my pad thai rice noodles)
17.Salt - to taste

Preparation :

1.First prepare the chicken stock and keep it aside.
2.Heat oil in the pot, add the chopped ginger,garlic,green chillies,spring onions and red onions. Saute for a while till the raw smell of ginger n garlic goes off in medium flame.
3.Then add the mushroom saute for 2 mts and then add other chopped Veggies cook for 2 mts.( veggies should be in crisp)
4.Now add the chicken stock, salt and let it boil , then add the soy sauce, chilli sauce, salt and black pepper powder.
5.Close the pot with the lid to cook for 5 mts, meanwhile mix the cornflour with enough water add it to the pot.
6.Stir it well and close the pot with lid to cook in medium flame
7.Heat separate pan and fry the noodles with little bit of oil to bit crisp.
8.Now the Hot Soup is ready to serve with fried noodles.

I didn't taken the picture the soup with fried noodles, i added the fried noodles before serving.

For Veggie Spring Roll:

Ingredients:

1.Spring roll Wrappers - 6
2.Canola oil for deep frying
3.Mix 1tbsp of cornflour with little bit of water in separate bowl for wet the edges of Spring roll.


For Sauteeing:

1.Oil - 2 tsp
2.Shredded Cabbage - 1 bowl
3.Thinly sliced carrots - 4 tbsp
4.Thinly Sliced Mushroom - 4 tbsp
5.Chopped Green Bell Pepper - 3 tbsp
6.Thinly Sliced Bamboo shoots - 2 tbsp
7.Bean Sprouts - 2 tbsp
8.Salt - to taste
9.Light Soya Sauce - 1 tbsp

Preparation:

1.Heat oil in a pan, saute all the veggies lightly ( should be in crispy). Don't cook fully and add the soy sauce and salt.
2.Saute it nicely in medium flame till the sauce get sticks to the veggies.
3.Now spread the sauteed veggies in the plate  to cool.
4.After 15 to 20 mts, heat oil in the kadai for deep frying. Meanwhile, wrap the spring roll with veggies.
5.Deep fry the rolls till it turns golden brown and drain it in the kitchen towels.
6.Then serve hot with ketchup.

Sweet Corn Kernel and Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

1.Frozen Sweet Corn Kernels - 1/2 cup

2.Chicken stock - 2 cups (from 200 grams chicken)

3.Thinly sliced Chicken breast - 1 small breast piece

4.Corn starch - 2 tsp(mix it well with water)

5.Egg - 1 (beaten with salt)

6.Soya Sauce - For serving on top

7.Salt n Pepper for seasoning.

Method:

1.Cook the 200 grams chicken with Ginger n garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt.

2.Drain the cooked chicken pieces out and use the liquid as stock for the soup.

3.Put the corn kernels in the frying pan and toss it for a while.

4.After corn get tossed well, add the thinly sliced chicken breast pieces into the frying pan.

5.Saute it for 5 minutes and then add the chicken stock, let it boil .

6.Now gradually add the corn starch with salt n pepper for seasoning.

7.Lastly add the beaten egg with salt gradually, after adding the beaten egg Stir it slowly.

8.Serve the Corn n Chicken soup with soya sauce on top.

Note:

I used the cooked chicken pieces for my Baked chicken and cheese Pasta. You can also use the cooked chicken for other recipes .