Category: Soups

V8 Rasam

Rasam, Chaaru, Blogging marathon, V8 Chaaru

I am concluding my blogging marathon # 17 with healthy V8 rasam. Rasam or chaaru (in Telugu) is a South Indian soup. Rasams are one of my favorite Indian comfort food that tastes awesome with hot rice or can be drunk as it is if mildly spiced. There are many types of rasams and I… more

Butternut Squash Soup

butternut squash soup

Butternut squash is a winter squash and tastes like a pumpkin. I bought it few days ago to make soup but was lazy to cut it. It has a very thick skin and is a little difficult to peel and remove the skin. Couple of days ago, my local grocer sold cut butternut squash and… more

Green Soup

Green soup

This Monday, group 2 started their blogging marathon. I am joining them in the marathon for couple days, today and tomorrow, sticking to my soups theme. Today’s soup is green soup which I made cooking spinach, green peas, celery and cabbage in some stock, and then pureed it. Green vegetables give this soup a nice… more

BM#4 Day 7 – Homemade Vegetable Stock

homemade vegetable stock

I can’t believe today is the last day of the marathon! Last 6 days, I have been posting soup recipes and I have used homemade vegetable stock in 5 out 6 recipes that I have posted. I thought I should share the recipe for homemade stock as I have used it in almost all the… more

BM#4 Day 6: Turkey Dumpling Soup

turkey dumpling soup

I made some turkey kofta curry Thursday night and kept aside some turkey meat to make this soup yesterday. I was in no mood to make the dumpling soup yesterday and this was our lunch this afternoon. This recipe is adapted from Rachael Rays Hungarian Dumpling soup. I made this soup couple of times in… more

BM#4 Day 5: Bok Choy & Mushroom Soup

Bok Choy and mushroom soup

It feels like fall/winter today. The temperature is in 40’s, which is not bad at all but the cloudy sky is making it feel a lot colder. On this gloomy day, I felt like having a light, hot soup and some homemade pizza, for lunch. I had actually planned on making dumpling soup today but… more

BM#4 Day 4: Tomato Soup

Tomato Soup

Tomato soup is one of the easiest soups to prepare and it is a real comfort food! I am lazy to prepare it from scratch used to buy Lipton tomato soup mix. My father-in-law likes this soup a lot and use to get it whenever he visited us and I slowly got hooked on to… more

BM#4 Day 3: Hot & Sour Soup

hot and sour soup

While I was going through my recipe book for soup recipes, I found this hot & sour soup. I don’t know where I got this recipe and I wrote it down a long time ago, before coming to the US. I started collecting and writing down recipes soon after my marriage and can not recall… more

BM#4 Day 2: Sausage White Beans & Kale Soup

turkey kielbasa white beans kale soup, sausage white beans kale soup

Couple of weeks ago, I came across this soup recipe and the pictures were very tempting. It had lot of kale in it.  Kale is one of the healthiest green leafy vegetables and since I tasted it just a few days ago, I made it right away and it came out very good! I did… more

BM#4 Day 1: Vegetable Sweet Corn Soup

Vegetable sweet corn soup

Today is the first day of blogging marathon # 4. This time Valli divided the marathon into three groups. The first group does the marathon form today the 4th to 10th, second group from next Monday, the 11th to 17th and the last group from 18th to 24th. Just like last two marathons, we have… more