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    Home » Recipes » Quick and Easy Recipes

    Published: Apr 13, 2011 · Modified: Oct 20, 2020 by Usha Rao

    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 green color, hence named it green soup. I made this soup last week and was not completely satisfied with the outcome.  I held back from posting it. The picture came out great though 🙂 ! I liked the picture a lot and made  the soup again last night with some changes to the recipe.  The result was good and here I am with the recipe. I did not take pictures yesterday and am using the picture from last week. The only change I made this time was skipping mint. Last time I used 5-8 mint leaves and it was a little minty. The taste was good but something wasn’t right. Last night, I completely omitted it and the soup was perfect to please my taste buds!

    Green soup

    Total Time: 17 - 20 minutes (excludes cooling time)
    Preparation: 5 minutes
    Cooking Time: 12 - 15 minutes
    Serves: 1 - 2

    Ingredients:

    • 1 tbsp. Oil
    • 1 Green Onion chopped
    • 1 small Green Chili Chopped (opt.)
    • ¼ - ⅓ cup Celery sliced
    • ¼ - ⅓ cup Cabbage chopped
    • ¼ - ⅓ cup frozen Green Peas (I used the ones from the Indian store)
    • ¾ cup loosely packed chopped Spinach
    • ¼ - ⅓ cup chopped Cilantro
    • 2 cups homemade Vegetable Stock or store bought stock
    • Pepper to taste
    • Salt to taste

    Preparation:

    • In a sauce pan, heat oil. Add green onions, green chilies and sauté for a minute.
    • Add celery, cabbage, green peas and sauté for couple of minutes.
    • Add spinach, cilantro and sauté until spinach wilts.
    • Add stock, bring it to boil and cook until the vegetables are cooked. Make sure green peas and celery are tender. This step should take about 7 minutes.
    • Cool the soup and run it in a blender to puree the mixture. Or, if you are lazy, impatient like me and can't wait to let the mixture cool completely, use an immersion blender to puree the mixture.
    • Strain the soup and bring it back to boil and cook it for couple of minutes on medium flame. Season the soup and serve hot. Be careful when seasoning the soup. The amount of seasoning required for the soup depends on the stock and if the stock is well seasoned, you need not season the soup at all.

    Substitutions:

    • If using water instead of stock, add some ginger garlic paste to the tempering and season the soup accordingly.
    • Straining the soup is optional.  I used  a strainer that has a not very fine mesh as I wanted a thick textured soup.  This way, I can retain some of the fiber from the vegetables.

    Soups I posted so far for this marathon are:
    Group 1, Day 1 - Vegetable Corn Soup
    Group 1, Day 2 - Sausage White Beans Kale Soup
    Group 1, Day 3 - Hot & Sour Soup
    Group 1, Day 4 - Tomato Soup
    Group 1, Day 5 - Bok Choy & Mushrooms Soup
    Group 1, Day 6 - Turkey Dumpling Soup
    Group 1, Day 7 - Homemade Vegetable Stock

    « BM#4 Day 7 - Homemade Vegetable Stock
    Indian Cooking Challenge: Vatteppam »

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Suma Gandlur says

      April 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm

      Alluring hue of green.

      Reply
    2. Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi says

      April 13, 2011 at 7:14 pm

      I wish someone at home would like this soup (Green soup haters lined up here)..Lets see I can make this soup for myself someday!! looks so appetizing to me !!

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        April 14, 2011 at 12:07 pm

        Not everyone will like it and it is an acquired taste! Even U doesn't like greens in his soup, although he loves them steamed or sauteed.

        Reply
    3. Archana says

      April 13, 2011 at 6:37 pm

      Wow Usha..Very healthy and beautiful soup. Very nice photography.

      Reply
    4. Vidhya Jayadeep says

      April 13, 2011 at 5:49 pm

      Beautiful click and soup look so inviting.

      Reply
    5. Bhagi says

      April 13, 2011 at 2:20 pm

      Wow Usha,
      green all the way.... looks tempting will try it.

      Bhagi

      Reply
    6. Priya says

      April 13, 2011 at 1:18 pm

      Green soup looks super delicious,healthy and hearty...

      Reply
    7. Srivalli says

      April 13, 2011 at 11:54 am

      Wow Usha that looks so creamy more like a curry..:) I am sure it must be very filling..sometimes mint doesn't add the expected taste right..

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        April 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm

        You are right about the mint, Valli.. 🙂 and yes, it was very filling.. This was my dinner last night. I had all the soup for myself and a small piece of grilled fish.

        Reply
    8. PJ says

      April 13, 2011 at 11:40 am

      Looks so tempting.Nice click Usha and a healthy soup too...

      Reply
    9. divya says

      April 13, 2011 at 10:52 am

      perfect green.....lovely recipe...wil try it out soon

      Reply
    10. ila says

      April 13, 2011 at 10:19 am

      yummy yummy and greeny 🙂

      Reply

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