Kid's Special :- Spinach Soup

Spinach Soup

Ingredients:-
1 tsp ghee
½ tsp jeera
3 black pepper corns
2 garlic cloves
½ chopped onion
½ tsp chopped ginger
1 bowl of cut spinach
½ potato
½ carrot
½ small beetroot (Here I have added one big beetroot so the color of the soup turned red :-))
Salt
2 Bowls Water


Preparation:-

Heat ghee in pressure cooker.

Add jeera, black pepper corns, garlic cloves, chopped onion and chopped ginger.

Saute for a minute and add 1 bowl of cut spinach, potato, carrot and beetroot.

Saute for 3-4 minutes and also add salt to taste.

Add 2 bowls of water to this and pressure cook for around 10 minutes on medium.

Puree this once it is cool. Strain and serve warm to kids.

Note:-
You can add little cream for better taste.

Lunch box recipe - Vegetable rice with soya chunks | Vegetable biriyani

Its very difficult to prepare a complete meal on a weekday morning and also its not very easy to carry a big lunch box to office. Here is an easy and healthy recipe you can prepare in very less time and rush to office.


Ingredients:-

Soya chunks - A handful / As required
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Carrot - 1 small
Beans - 5
Gobi/ Cauliflower - A handful / As required
Green chilli - 2
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp (Optional)
Green peas - A handful
Curry leaves - 1 spring

Rice - 1 cup (Basmati / white rice) - I used white rice

Biriyani Masala - 2 tbsp (I use badshah/eastern vegetable biriyani masala)
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt - As required

Water - 2 cup  / As required (General measurement is if you are taking 1 cup rice then take 2 cup or water, just double of the quantity of rice)


Preparation :-

Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add onion into it. Saute onion till it is soft and add ginger garlic paste and green chillies to it. Add all the vegetables one by one and saute for 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes also.

Now add the cleaned and drained rice to this and saute for 2 more minutes. Add biriyani masala, turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt and saute for a minute.

Add water to this and check the salt. The salt should be little more which will help to get the proper taste at the end.

Wait for 3 whistles and switch off the flame. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Tips:-
You can use only soya chunks or vegetables to prepare this rice.
Add garam masala powder for better taste.