Home-Style Mixed Vegetable Soup

Mixed vegetable soup is very nutritious soup, which is very healthy as it includes many kind of vegetable. It is a very essential and vital soup for the kids, especially those children who don’t eat much vegetable. It is very simple to prepare and a healthy and perfect soup.

I make this soup whenever I have fresh vegetables at home. Also my favorite recipe as I do not like the taste of corn starch or any other thickner in my soup. You can add other fresh vegetables like green beans, spring onions, beetroot or use all or as many varieties of vegetables as you wish, or if you have only a few.

The mix vegetable soup is some thing little different soup then the normal mixed vegetable soup. This is an easy-made, low fat, low calorie and high fiber soup. This tastes even better then the normal one and it is also the healthy one for every one. Just try it and enjoy this tasty soup.

INGREDIENTS:-

~ Potato, diced ---------- 1 medium
~ Bottle gourd (doodhi/lauki), diced ---------- 100 grams
~ Finely Chopped beans ---------- 1/4 cup
~ Finely Chopped Cabbage ---------- 1/4 cup
~ Cauliflower florets ---------- 1/4 cup
~ Onion, thickly sliced ---------- 1 medium
~ Capsicum ---------- 2 tbsp
~ Green peas ---------- 1/4 cup
~ Carrots, diced --------- 2 medium
~ Tomatoes, quartered ---------- 4 medium
~ Fresh ginger, chopped --------- 1/4 tbsp
~ Garlic, minced ---------- 1 pod
~ Cumin seeds -------- ½ tbsp
~ Black peppercorns ---------- 12-15
~ Fresh cilantro, chopped ---------- 2 tbsp
~ Sugar --------- 1/2 tbsp
~ Oil ---------- 1 tbsp
~ Salt to taste

METHOD:-

1:- Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and black peppercorns. When the cumin seeds begin to change colour add onion, garlic and ginger and sauté for two minutes.
2:- Add carrots, potato, bottle gourd, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum and green peas and stir well.
3:- Add salt and mix. Add 6 cups of water, cover and cook until the vegetables get soft.
4:- Add tomatoes and continue to cook, covered, till all the vegetables are completely cooked. 5:- Strain and reserve the liquid. Cool the vegetables and then puree in a blender.
6:- Transfer into a deep pan, add the reserved liquid and adjust consistency. It should be quite thick or as you like. Bring the soup to a boil. Adjust salt, add sugar and stir for a few seconds.
8:- Serve hot. Garnish with chopped cilantro.