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Variety in
food – that’s what – makes all the difference to a person’s taste and appetite.
And then, comes, the dish from one’s own kitchen to be laid on the table for
people at home. Everyday cooking is like passing an exam on a daily basis.
Little more salt and faces come up and speak out frankly, “aajke aee
tarkari-ta-te noon besi hoyeche. Or – dal-ta aeeto jaljale aar mach khoob kora
bhaja… (this curry has too much salt, the dal is so watery, the fish has been
fried too much).
Hah! Says
the lady, but not unhappy with what she has heard. “It happens, it happens”,
she says with a wide smile, taking it sportingly. Silently she vows to serve
them a different dish, not the regular ones for dinner. That’s how this soup
comes up. The fridge is opened and all the stuff comes out from the Big Thanda
Box – the refrigerator – understood…
Jokes apart
let me serious. J
The
vegetables for this dish:
Carrots:
2
Radish:
2 along with the stems of the greens cut into 2 inch length
Brinjal/Eggplant:
1
Cauliflower
florets: 6-7
Green
bananas: 2
Tomatoes:
3 nice ripe red ones
Green
chilli’s 3: slit in the middle
Other
ingredients:
Oil: tsp.
Haldi
powder: ½ tsp.
Black
pepper or chilli powder (as you prefer) ½ tsp.
Salt: to
taste
Panch
phoron: 2 tsps. (for all the aromas of jeera, sauf, methi, kalonji and mustard)
Sugar
(optional): 1 tsp.
To start
off with the cooking, first wash and cut the vegetables into small pieces. Put all the vegetables in the pressure cooker,
add enough water and wait for the first whistle to come. Switch off the flame
and allow it to cool.
Once it has
cooled down, open the lid. In the meantime take a kadhai/wok and put it on the
burning stove. Now add oil and once the oil starts to release the heat add the
panch phoron. Let the whole spices crackle, but don’t let it burn. Once the
aroma of the spices start to come up, pour the vegetables along with the
vegetable stock from the pressure pan into it. Now add the haldi powder, chilli
or pepper powder, salt and sugar and let it boil for 4-5 minutes. By now the flavour
of all the vegetables has mixed together with a slight sour taste from the
tomatoes. Soup is ready to be served…hot of course…
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Enjoy the
soup with the bite of the veggies. You can also eat it with hot rotis or with
the dip of bread slices.
