Carrot Soup

 
Ingredients:
• 3 Cups Carrots (peeled and sliced)
• 5 tbsp Milk
• 2 Tomatoes
• 2 tsp Butter
• ½ tsp Garam Masala
• 2 tsp Garlic (peeled)
• A pinch Black Pepper Powder
• Salt to taste

How to make Carrot Soup:

• Keep the carrots for cooking until their raw smell goes.
• Boil tomatoes in the water to remove the skin. Remove the seeds also.
• Blend together the tomatoes, carrots and garlic.
• Melt the butter in a heavy based vessel and add the above mixture.
• Allow it to cook for few minutes.
• Now add milk and again cook the mixture for sometime.
• Remove from the flame. Add a pinch of pepper powder, salt and garam masala to the soup.
• Carrot soup is ready to savor. Serve hot.

(By:Santhosh Mohanan)

Oats Porridge

Ingredients.

1) Oats – 4 table spoon( As required)
2) Water – 2 ½ glass ( As required)
3) Salt- to taste.
4) Chilly powder – ¾ teaspoon
5) Sambar powder – ½ teaspoon( optional)
6) Shallots- 5-6 nos ( chopped)
7) Curry leaves - Few
8) Mustard seeds – ½ teas spoon ( optional)
9) Oil – 2 teaspoon ( As required)

Method

Boil the water and oats together in a pan and cook for about 5-6 minutes and stir occasionally till the content become a porridge consistency and keep aside.

Then Heat oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds, then add chopped shallots and curry leaves, chilly powder and sambar powder one by one and sauté until the shallot becomes slight golden brown then pour this over the porridge and stir well ......

BY GEETHU ELSA MATHEWS