Hot and Sour Veg soup

For this week's blogging marathon I have chosen soups and salads as the theme. Soups and salads are very good for our health. We should have it at least in one of our meal course. But I am very lazy to prepare these some how : even though soups and salads are the most easy recipes to prepare.

Hot and sour soup is basically introduced from the Chinese cuisine and the non-veg version of this is very famous. I just tried the veg version. Chinese cuisine has the characteristics of being nutritious, economical, balanced and delicious. And in this generation Chinese cuisine is world famous.

I have often tried the hot and sour soup in restaurants and this is the first time I tried it at home. The taste was a little different. I actually am not able to point out the difference but nevertheless it was fabulous. I researched this recipe in the internet and found many versions and finally did a mix and match of 2-3 recipes and prepared it to suit our taste. 

Ingredients:

Beans - 100 grams

Carrots - 100 grams

Cauliflower - 100 grams

Cabbage (finely chopped) - 3 tbsp

Spring onion - few

Green chillies - 3 nos

Sugar - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Garlic - 5 cloves

Soya sauce - 1 tbsp

Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp

Chilly sauce - 1 tbsp

Oil - 1 tsp

Corn flour - 1 tbsp

Pepper powder - 1 tsp

Method:

• Chop the spring onion, carrots, beans, cabbage finely. 
• In a deep wide pan, add oil (preferably olive oil) and add the slit green chilli.  
• Add the finely chopped garlic and sugar and saute for a while.
• Now add the veggies which we chopped finely. Saute for a minute and add 3 cups of water.
• Add salt and bring it to a boil. Once the water boils, lower the flame and leave it for 5-7 minutes so that veggies are half cooked.
• Add all the sauces and mix well.
• Mix corn flour in 2 tblsp of water without any lumps and add it to the pan. Mix well. The soup will reach the right consistency in 2 minutes.
• Add pepper powder and lemon juice.

Serve hot with some bread

Notes

• Any veggies can be added like capsicum, peas etc
• Garnish with spring onion leaves. I didn't have any.
• You can add extra 1 tblsp of soya sauce if you want the darker color. But don’t add too much it will spoil the taste

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