Jain Recipes - Soups

(1) Peanut Soup
Serves 4 to 6 persons
Ingredients : 100grms roasted & shelled peanuts, 30grms ghee, 50 grms green vegetable stock, ½ spoon chilli sauce, 1 spoon flour, lemon juice, salt & black pepper.

Method : Grind peanuts & vegetable stock with water in a mixer grinder till smooth liquid. Add flour to the above liquid & stir it at medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Add enough water to required consistency & boil for 5 minutes. Before serving add lemon juice, salt & black pepper with chilli sauce as per taste. Serve hot.

(2) Corn soup
Serves 4 persons : Ingredients: Corn- cobs, 1 tsp. Sugar, 1 tsp. corn flour, 1-cup milk, pepper powder, Salt, one tsp ghee, 1 tsp. Ajinomoto, 1 tsp. white vinegar

Note : 1 tin cream style corn & 4 cups water can be used instead of corn- cobs.

Preparation : Grate corn & add water & boil in pressure cooker. Remove & strain through a soup strainer (in tin corn, open the tin & add water & boil.). Dissolve corn flour in boiling milk & add ghee to soup & boil for 10 minutes. Add salt, pepper, ajinomoto & vinegar to taste. Serve with chilly sauce, Soya sauce & green chilies (finely cut & add to the vinegar mixed with water).

(3) Tomato Soup
Serves 6 persons : Ingredients: ½-kilo tomatoes, pepper powder, Salt, water, 1 1/2-cup milk, 1 tsp. corn flour, 1 tsp. ghee, 100 grams cream

Preparation : Cut tomatoes, &. Add 7 cups of water. Pressure cook for 2 whistle & then for 5 minutes cook on a low heat. Cool & strain through a fine shift. Melt butter in a frying pan. Add soup to it. Dissolve corn flour in boiling milk & add to the soup. Boil for 10 minutes. Remove from the gas & add pepper & salt. When serving, Churn the cream & add one tsp of cream in each bowl.

Note : soup can be served without cream.

(4) Vegetable green soup
Serves 4 persons
Ingredients : 200-gram cabbage, 100 grams green peas, 200 grams bottle ground, pepper powder, 1 tomato, salt, 3 tsp. Vermicelli, 2 tbsp. ghee, 3-cup milk, 2-tsp. corn flour.

Preparations : Wash vegetables & chop. Sauté vermicelli in a little ghee till brown. Boil in pressure cooker, for 2 whistles. Shift the soup through fine shift. Mix corn flour in milk & add to the soup. Boil the soup till it thickens. Decorate the soup with boiled peas, salt & pepper.

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