Verdant broccoli soup

• Servings: 4-6
• Preparation time: 6-7 minutes.
• Frying time: 5 minutes.
• Cooking time: 10 minutes.
• Blending time: 2-3 minutes.
• Seasoning time: 5 minutes.
• Total time: 30 minutes.

Prepare a unique taste and verdant green looking ‘broccoli soup’ with spring onion, onion, garlic. Soup is the ultimate healthy meal; it is not packed with sugar, fake fats above all it is good for health and waistline.

Ingredients:

• Broccoli: 100-150 gm.
• Onion: 1 no. (Medium size)
• Spring onion: 20-30 gm.
• Green coriander leaves: 1 tablespoon (chopped)
• Ginger: 2” piece
• Garlic: 2-3 flakes
• Bay leaf: 1 no.
• Milk: ½ cup
• Water: 4 cup
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Black rock salt (Kala namak): 2 pinch
• Black pepper powder: ½ teaspoon
• Butter: 2 tablespoon (as per taste)
• Lemon: ½ no. (Optional)

preparation:

1. Roughly chop broccoli, keep aside.
2. Peel off and slice onion, spring onion, garlic, green coriander and ginger. Keep aside.

Method:

1. Take a pressure cooker; put butter and bay leaf, Saute ginger, garlic and onion, add broccoli, spring onion and green coriander leaves; stir fry for couple of minutes, add water and salt.
2. Place cooker on maximum heat, bring it to full cooking pressure; put off the flame, let it cool and then puree in a blender, add milk and desire quantity of water as per reaches soup consistency, 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 broccoli; stir fry on medium flame till it is done, spread this fried broccoli over prepared soup.
2. Verdant broccoli soup is ready to serve. Serve hot with toasted bread or bread croutons. You can add extra butter too.

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