How to make Cabbage soup?

Ingredients:
• 1 Head cabbage, shredded or chopped
• 16-28 Ounces canned tomatoes, chopped
• 4 Stalks celery
• 6 Carrots, sliced
• 2 Big onions, chopped
• 1/2 Pound green beans, sliced on diagonal
• 2 Green peppers
• Any fresh herb of choice, chopped
• Black pepper to taste
• 1 to 2 Packages lipton onion soup mix, or any dry onion soup mix.

Method:

	Place all the vegetables in a big pot and cover it with water, bring it to a boil.
•	Stir in the soup mix and boil gently for about 10 minutes.
•	Cover it and decrease the heat and simmer till all the vegetables are soft.
•	Add the black pepper and chopped herbs to it, saving some for garnish.

How to make 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

Method:

•	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.

Making of Mango Pakkoda or Mango pakkuvada

Ingredients:
1 cup - rice flour
1/2 cup - onions, finely chopped.
1/2 cup - green spring onions, finely chopped (the green part)
1/4 cup - green coriander leaves, finely chopped
1/2 tsp - chat masala
3/4 cup - besan/chickpea flour
1/2 cup - grated raw mango
1 tbsp - curry leaves, crushed or chopped finely
1 tbsp - mint leaves, chopped finely
1 inch - piece ginger, finely grated
2 cloves - garlic, finely grated
1/2 tsp - cumin seeds coarsely powdered
1 - green chilli, seeds removed and chopped
a pinch of bicarbonate soda
1/4 tsp - ajwain seeds
oil for frying
salt to taste


Method

1. Mix all the above ingredients
2. Add a little water if needed to form batter of dropping consistency
3. Do not make it watery as it will absorb more oil
4. Heat oil and fry the pakoda in small batches
5. Enjoy hot with your favorite chutney or sauce and hot tea or coffee

How can we make Tomotto soup or thakkali soup?

Ingredients:

• 4 Ripe Tomatoes
• Salt to taste
• Pepper
• Mint leaves
• Butter

Method:

•	Put the tomatoes in boiling water for 2 min.
•	Then immediately transfer them to ice-cold water.
•	Peel the skins and cut the tomatoes into small pieces.
•	Now take water in a pan, boil it and add the chopped tomatoes.
•	Add mint and salt to the boiling mixture. Boil for about 5-6 minutes.
•	Cool and blend the tomatoes with the help of a mixer.
•	Sieve the blended mixture to discard the seeds.
•	Garnish it with a dash of butter and serve hot

How to make mutton liver fry?

Ingredients:

500 grams liver
1 big onion
1 tomato,
pepper to taste
¼ teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
2 tablespoons ghee(clarified butter) and salt to taste.

Method:

Cut the liver into cubes and wash them well. Put the cubes in a big bowl. Sprinkle pepper powder, cumin seeds powdered, turmeric and salt and mix it all up. Let it marinate for a while. Take a frying pan and heat up the ghee (clarified butter).

When the ghee begins bubbling add the onions and sauté till golden brown. Put in the tomatoes and fry till the oil begins leaving the edge of the pan and the tomato becomes pulp. Drop in the marinated liver and sauté regularly till the liver is cooked.

Try not to add water as liver tends to give out water too. If required add a spoon water at a time and keep frying. Remove from flame and garnish with chopped onions and serve.

Do you know the making of Palak mutton curry?Here is the recipe

Palak mutton curry:

Ingredients:

1. 500 grams mutton
2. 5 teaspoon palak paste
3. 4 onions
5. 2 green chillie
6. 3 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
7. 1 teaspoon red chilly paste
8. 2 tablespoons oil and salt to taste.

Method:
1.Finely and chop the onion and green chillies each separately and keep them aside. Now take a frying pan and heat some oil.

2. When the oil is very hot add the onions and green chillies and sauté them till they are golden brown. Now add the mutton pieces.

3. Next add the red chilly paste and ginger garlic paste and mix it all up. Sprinkle salt to taste and mix well. Then cover and cook till the mutton is done.

4. Now add the palak paste and cook for another two minutes. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and almonds or butter flakes and serve hot.

How to prepare Mutton samosas?

Ingredients :
1. 250 grams minced mutton
2. 200 grams flour
3. 1 tomato
4. 1 onion
5. 1 inch ginger
6. 2 green chillies
7. 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
8. 1 teaspoon garam masala
9. ½ teaspoon red chilly powder
10. 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, ¾ cup oil
11. 1 tablespoon white butter and 2 teaspoons salt.

METHOD:

1. Finely chop the onion, tomato, ginger and green chillies each separately and place them aside. Now take a pan and heat 1 tablespoon oil.

2. When the oil is very hot add the onions and sauté till golden brown. Next put in the tomatoes, ginger, green chillies, red chilly powder, garam masala and turmeric and sauté till the raw smell of the masala leaves. Now add the minced meat and fry for five minutes.

3. Now add half cup water and let it boil. When the water begins boiling add salt to taste. Cover, simmer and cook for 35 minutes till the meat is cooked and all the water has evaporated.

4. Now take a big bowl and add the flour and ½ teaspoon salt. Mix them together and then add the white butter and cumin seeds. Add a spoon of water at a time and make a dough.

5. Now make small balls from the dough and roll it into flat rounds like chappatis or pan cakes. Cut the round into half and make a cone out of each half. Fill these cones with the minced meat and seal the edges with a little water. Now Take a frying pan and pour oil enough for frying.

6. Let the oil heat up well and then slowly fry the samosas till the outer layer is crisp and golden brown.