There's no better combo than a chilled rainy night and a hot bowl of soup. One of the healthiest foods, soups are filled with antioxidants, highly nutritious, easy to cook, and best known for building your immunity.
Monsoon season not just brings romantic showers but several diseases too. Soups play a significant role in boosting your immunity.
Several soup versions are made with vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods, one of the ultimate health boosters.
In this article, we have tried to compile 5 of the healthiest considered soup recipes for this monsoon season.
1. Cauliflower Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- olive oil
- 1 onion
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 cups cauliflower florets
- Cashew nut paste
- water
- 1 slice of Bread
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Salt as per taste
Method:
- Take a pan and add some olive oil. Dice onions and cauliflower with the help of your Hafele's Klara Highline Pro Kitchen Machine.
Using this kitchen machine helps you dice veggies evenly and instantly.
- Add these chopped veggies and garlic to the oil and stir fry for a few minutes.
- Now add cashew nut paste and water. Mix well and cover the pan.
- Simmer until the veggies cook thoroughly. Let it cool.
- Once done, add these cooked veggies and the bread slice to your Hafele's Cautro 1000 Vacuum Blender to get a smooth, consistent paste.
- Pour the blend into another pot. Add water and remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil and let it simmer until you get a soupy consistency. The soup is now ready to be served hot.
2. Carrot Ginger Soup Recipe
This is yet another healthy soup recipe and is unique in taste.
Ingredients:
- 5 carrots
- Olive oil as required
- S as per taste
- 1 Bowl Vegetable stock
- ½ inch Ginger peeled & grated
- 1 large onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- Black pepper
Method:
- Chop the carrots and other veggies into the Hafele's Klara Highline Pro kitchen machine.
- Take some olive oil into a deep pan.
- Add the remaining ingredients along with the chopped veggies into the pan one by one.
- Add water and salt as per taste.
- Bring to boil, close with lid, and let it cook for about half an hour
- Once done, let it cool down.
- Pour into the Cuatro 1000 Vacuum Blender and make a smooth paste. It is laden with VacuoTechnology that gives your blend a smooth textured paste, which is essential for the perfect soupy consistency.
- Add this paste and water into a pan and bring to boil until you get the soupy consistency.
- The soup is now ready to be served hot.
3. Mixed Vegetable Soup
Veggies are always best for health; together, they blend into a nutrition-filled dish.
Ingredients:
- Fresh vegetables of your choice
- as per taste
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
- Turmeric
- Curry leaves
- Oil
Method:
- Add oil to a pressure cooker and drop all the ingredients together.
- Fry for some time and add water & salt
- Cook this for 3-4 whistles
- Let it Cool down. Then blend it.
- Strain in a bowl and serve hot.
4. Seafood Soup
Ingredients:
- 2 bowls of prawn shells
- 1 bowl each of fresh Prawns and Squid
- 1 onion
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tomatoes
- black pepper
- Salt to taste
- Olive oil
- Coriander leaves
Method:
- Clean the marine ingredients thoroughly
- Roast the prawn shells for 20 min in your Hafele's J34MWO Plus Microwave Convection Oven at 160°C. The shells are unevenly shaped; hence, roasting them in this oven is essential as they are heated in equal proportion uniformly from all sides.
- Meanwhile, saute all other ingredients except coriander in a deep pan. Add water and bring to a boil.
- Add the roasted shells to this stock, and let it cook, until the seafood essence is dissolved in the soup.
- The soup is now ready to be served hot. Garnish with coriander.
5. Paaya (Lamb Trotters) soup
Paaya soup is considered the healthiest soup of all and an instant immunity booster with high-level nutrition.
Ingredients:
- 8 lamb trotters
- salt as required
- 2 green cardamom
- 3 finely chopped onion
- 1/2 tablespoon ginger paste
- water as required
- 1/2 tablespoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons ghee
- 1 bowl of chopped coriander leaves
Method:
- Wash the trotters thoroughly under running water. If needed, take some warm water to clean them thoroughly.
- Take a pressure cooker. Add ghee and all the ingredients except water and salt to the ghee.
- Stir fry for a few minutes, and then add the washed paaya pieces.
- Fry for a few
- Add water and salt and close the cooker with a lid.
- Place the pressure cooker on your Hafele's Vortex 590 Gas Hob and let it cook.
Cooking Paaya isn't easy and takes lots of time, even in a pressure cooker. It takes time to get out the trotter's essence. This hob is best for slow cooking and can adapt to the pot's shape to give a seamless flame distribution, making it efficient and an ideal device for cooking foods like Paaya.
- Once cooked, garnish the soup with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Soups have always been the healthiest foods and are especially preferred in cold weather or rainy days. You should try out these healthy recipes instead of junk snacks this monsoon.