Chinese Clear Vegetable Soup ( Low Calorie Healthy Cooking)
Cuisine: Indian
Author: EasyRecipes .
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 5 mins
Total time: 15 mins
This soup utilizes the technique of stir-frying to cook the veggies to ensure minimum losses f nutrients. Not only does it taste great, it is extremely delicious.
Ingredients
  • 1 carrot, thinly sliced
  • ¾ cup cabbage
  • 3 lettuce leaves
  • 3 spring onions with greens
  • 3 sticks celery (ajmoda)
  • 50 gms sliced cauliflower
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • pinch of baking powder
  • a pinch of citric acid (nimbu ka phool)
  • 2 tsp soy sauce
  • salt to taste
  • To Serve
  • chillies in vinegar
  • chilli sauce
Instructions
  1. Tear the cabbage and lettuce leaves.
  2. Chop the spring onions with the leaves.
  3. Cut the celery into about 12 mm. Pieces.
  4. Heat the oil thoroughly. Add the vegetables, baking powder and citric acid and cook on a high flame for 3 to 4 minutes.
  5. Add 5 teacups of boiling water, the soya sauce and salt and boil for 3 to 4 minutes.
  6. Serve hot with chillies in vinegar and chilli sauce.
Notes
Health Information :
This soup uses the stir frying technique (an Oriental method of cooking using small quantities of oil) .
For cooking whilst stirring over a high flame.
This results in minimum loss of nutrients and minimum absorption of fat, making it a very useful nutrient saving cooking technique.
Recipe by Mithila.net at https://www.mithila.net/salads/soups/chinese-clear-vegetable-soup-low-calorie-healthy-cooking-7176.html