Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Garden Vegetable and Bean soup - Indian Style


Ingredients:

Soak overnight
chick pea - 1 table spoon
red beans - 1 table spoon
rajma or kidney beans - 1 table spoon (any beans you want to add)

1 onion - finely chopped
1 small carrot - cut into large chunks or cubes
1/2 capsicum
1 pod garlic - crushed
1 inch ginger - crushed
2 green chillies - slit
3 large tomatoes - cut or can of crushed tomatoes

some pasta - either spaghetti or linguine anything just for starch
half potato for starch (not required)

Garnish:
cilantro finely chopped
grated parmesan cheese or powdered parmesan cheese

Spices:
Salt to taste
red chili powder (I even used little sambar powder :) )
coriander powder
oregano
pepper


Prep:

Add oil in a pressure cooker and add the onion, garlic and ginger. Saute until transparent and cooked. Then add the capsicum and saute them and add tomatoes and let it cook for a bit. Add all the spices and salt to taste except for the oregano and pepper. Until all the tomatoes cook, then add the vegetables, the pasta and the soaked beans. For how many ever cups of beans add 3 times the measure of water. Mix them all and check taste and if required at this time you can adjust the salt and spice according to your needs. Pressure cook them all.

Serve them in a bowl and sprinkle pepper and oregano to your taste. Garnish with Parmesan cheese and cilantro. Have it with a bread toast.

Healthy tasty food down your tummy.