Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes: Vegetable Clear Soup

Step by step procedure with photos to prepare Vegetable Clear Soup. This soup is basically prepared with loads of vegetables, pepper and salt. I learnt to prepare this soup from my mom, she prepares it so yummy, me and my sister would have a fight over to finish it. I used to give this vegetable(with selected vegetables) soup with a pinch of pepper and enough of salt, to my daughter when she was just 2 years old and just started to have spicy food. Often I cook this soup especially during winter days. It makes a healthy and soothing evening time snack. But soup is not only for winter weather but also gives great relief from cough and cold, make sure you add more pepper to the soup and have it hot. Vegetable soup can also be served as a starter or an appetiser. Try this soup at your home because homemade is always best☺. Click here Creamy Spring Onion Soup to see the procedure for another delightful soup.

Vegetable Clear Soup

Preparation time: 15 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2
Category: Soup
Recipe by Vidhya

Ingredients

Vegetables to steam/pressure cook

Carrot - 1 finely chopped

Beans - 12 finely chopped

Baby corn - 5 chopped

Cauliflower - 5 floret

Broccoli - 4 -5 floret

Green peas - a handful (Use fresh peas or frozen peas)

Vegetables to be stir fried

Onion - 1 finely chopped

Spring onion - 2 springs (White and green part chopped separately)

Garlic - 1 table spoon finely chopped

Butter - 1 table spoon

Salt and Pepper - as per your taste

Method

The method to prepare Vegetable Clear Soup is very simple. But the real thing is cleaning and chopping the whole lot of vegetables. But you will realise the time is worth spending, when you sip a spoonful of home made soup.

Rinse all the vegetable thoroughly in water. Chop them finely as shown. Keep the Vegetables to steam/pressure cook and Vegetables to be stir fried separately.
Take a vessel enough to cook the vegetables. Add 1 1/2 cup of water and put the vegges mentioned in Vegetables to steam/pressure cook section.
Pressure cook for 20 min/5-6 whistles. Allow the pressure to settle down by itself. If you are boiling the vegetables, add same amount of water and cook until the vegetables are fully cooked and soft.
Now take a pan/kadai, add a table spoon of butter. When it is melted add minced garlic, onions and white part of spring onion.
When the onion turns transparent, add green part of spring onion. Stir it for a minute.
Now pour the boiled vegetables along with water used for cooking vegetables and add another 1/2 cup of water.
Add salt and pepper. Bring the heat to low and cook until it is boiling/cook for another 5-7 min.
Now the hot Vegetable Clear Soup is ready.