KNOW YOUR VEGETABLES

We have heard about Bollywood film stars are on diet with boiled vegetable or salad, many also want to have the same diet but feel that is it hard to eat boiled vegs or munching on raw veg  (most of the time is tomato, cucumber, onion and white radish) will with little nimbu and salt like many Indian of. ten make what is so called salad.

In summer, vegetable are very less in the market but still there are many things there for you to make taste and yummy salad which can help you to have glow skin, slim waist and many other more benefits from veg salads.

First before you decide that your lunch will be only salad from now onwards to get the target of 26 - 27 waist to flaunt it with your new saree, you should know what veg is good to eat raw and what veg can use to make salads.

I. GREEN LEAFY.

Eating green leafy can help you to remain young, vitamin E and other vitamin will help anti aging, keep cancer at bay, give you that dream smooth glowing skin and heart care and pregnancy care. So let's see what leafy you can use to make salad included

I am telling you what is available in Delhi market, Spinach (palak), iceberg, lettuce (green and purple colour), cabbage, morning glory, young leaf of white radish.

II. OTHER VEGETABLE  (which is popular and available in Delhi)

A. Vegetable can eat raw

Bell pepper (grean, red, yellow), cucumber, carrot, tomato, onion, spring onion, red radish, white radish, button mushroom, celery, garden rocket, watercress

B. Vegetable need to have some process before making salad

  

French bean, cauliflower, broccoli, baby corn, corn, olive, eggplant, banana blossom, potato, bitter gourd, Chinese cabbage, lotus root, asparagus, papaya.

To be continued with very simple recipes of salad.

CREAMY MUSHROOM SOUP

Now it is summer, not the right time for heavy food with cream and butter but we suddenly feel to have something creamy and still light for lunch and it can fill stomach till dinner without crawling for some snack at 4 pm. So I decide to make creamy mushroom soup.

I. What do you need ? (for 4 servings)

- 1 box of button mushroom
- Few leaves of basil (can use coriander instead of basil leaves)
- 1 box of Amul cream
- Pepper, salt
- 1 teaspoon corn flour
- Half of Knoor soup cube (mushroom)
- 4 bowl of water (use the bowl you are going to serve the soup to measure water)

II. How to make ?

Wash and rinse mushroom carefully under running tap to remove dust and soil. Thinly slide. Put mushroom into water and bring to boil, add salt to taste. Mix corn flour with some room temperature water before added to soup to avoid cuddle. Add corn flour and cream into soup and stir. Add salt to taste. Sprinkle chop basil leave and pepper before serve.

Soup should not be too thin or too thick. You can add more corn flour.

III. Tips

In Delhi, button mushroom is packed in poly bag or blue plastic box, you can find in INA or many shops in South Delhi, in winter it is everywhere and quite cheap.
Good button mushroom should be white, small size and absolutely closed.

You can get Knoor soup cube from INA, there are chicken soup cube and mushroom soup cube.

Shake well the box of cream before open and add slowly to the soup and stir during time of adding.

CHICKEN CORIANDER SOUP

In this rainy season, this soup with ginger, coriander, lemon and pepper will help you to fight with cold and stuffy snooze. You will feel more appetizer and perfect for diet light lunch or starter in dinner. It is also easy and quick to cook.


I. What do you need ? (for 4 servings)

- 200 gr. Minced chicken

- A handful bunch of coriander (100 gr)

- A small piece of ginger (size of thumb)

- Pepper, salt

- Slide of lemon (for serving)

- 4 bowl of water (use the bowl you are going to serve the soup to measure water)

II. How to make ?

Put minced chicken in a bowl, add with half teaspoon of salt and pepper, 1 teaspoon of cooking oil (optional), mix well.

Peel and julienne the ginger or if you are not good in cutting then just grate or finely chop, put ginger in water and boil it. When water is boiled, use a small teaspoon to scoop chicken into boiling water and keep it boiled until all pieces of chicken are floated then slow down gas keep boiling in 5 minutes to make sure all chicken are well cooked. Do not close the lid during the time of cooking because it will make the soup not clear.

Add salt to taste. Coriander cut 1 inch long put into soup just before you serve. Sprinkle pepper and some drop of lemon, serve hot.

III. Tips

To make soup (broth) tastier without using MGS, chop 1 white radish (Mooli) put into water and boil for sometime, about 10 to 15 minutes until radish become transparent, then take it out and discard radish.

Black pepper should not buy ready grinded in the bottle, it will loose all aroma. Better buy some whole seed pepper and grind it as mush as you can use for a week or two then keep in glass jar air tide.

ABOUT ME !

Yes, I am not a cook by profession but I am a Vietnamese and a housewife in Indian family, mother of twins, living in India in the last 5 years (from 2005). All these details mean to say that I will give you recipes in very simple way in a normal Indian kitchen. Everybody can cook !. And of course, everybody can EAT

Something more about me ! My grandmother was original Chinese Vietnamese and a cook for Vice president of former government in Vietnam. Many recipes i got from her, may other i created myself based on what i had learn from my Mom and change to adapt with condition in India and for my Indian husband.

In my blogs you will find easy recipes for daily food and for parties from Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai foods to Some European foods which can help you satisfy your tongue and still be slim, healthy and balanced with all nutrition needed for your body. You can find tips and techniques are very easy to do, also the place where you can find materials (I am based in Delhi so i will tell you where to find in Delhi).

Keep log in to find new recipes to surprise your family. "The path to heart of a man is through his stomach". :-) lol