Drumstick soup

• Servings: 4
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Boiling time: 10-12 minutes.
• Seasoning time: 4-5 minutes.
• Total time: 27 minutes.

Nowadays we enjoy soup everyday; soup lends a punch to energy levels, low in fat and high in fiber.

Yesterday I prepared ‘drumstick soup’, which was utterly delicious and delighted our mood. The good thing is that here I used drumstick pulp as main ingredient. Soup is considered healthiest hot drink around the world.

Ingredients:

• Drum stick: 2-3 no.
• Onion: 1 no. (Medium size)
• Tomato: 2 no. (Medium size)
• Ginger: 2” piece
• Green chilli: 1 no. (Optional)
• Bay leaf: 1 no.
• Water: 5 cup
• Salt: ½ teaspoon
• White rock salt: ½ teaspoon
• Black rock salt (Kala namak): 2 pinch
• Black pepper powder: ½ teaspoon

Seasoning:

1. Butter: 2 tablespoon (as per taste)
2. Drumstick: 1 no.

Preparation:

1. Take Drum stick, cut into centre and scoop out the pulp shown as photo. Keep aside.
2. Peel off and slice onion, tomatoes, ginger and chilli. Keep aside.

Method:

1. Put drumstick pulp, chopped tomatoes, ginger, onion, bay leaf, white rock salt, salt in pressure cooker; place cooker on maximum heat, bring it to full cooking pressure, reduce to lower flame and cook for 2-3 minutes. Allow cooker be cool.
2. After cooling roughly grind it in mixer grinder for few seconds, pass this through soup sieve. Discard the residue.
3. Reheat soup; add kala namak and fresh ground black pepper.

Seasoning:

1. Take a small fry pan, put butter and add drumstick pulp, stir fry on medium flame till it is done.
2. Spread this fried drumstick pulp over prepared soup.
3. Drumstick Soup is ready to serve. Serve hot.

Drumstick soup by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.