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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Broccoli Cheddar Soup | Easy Soup Recipe

Broccoli Cheddar Soup, a delicious, creamy & cheesy soup, perfect for cold winter nights. My love for soups started only after I started to travel outside India. Before that, I liked to taste only a few spoons of soups mainly because I didn't grow up having soup as a meal and also the soup that I had tasted in many Indian restaurants were simply the diluted version of curries.

Later, slowly i became a soup fan, all credits to panera bread restaurant which is my go to place for lunch/dinner whenever we're traveling. This broccoli cheddar soup is my humble attempt to recreate the panera bread style soup with minimal ingredients. I won't say that this soup tastes exactly like a restaurant but it's simply delicious without any cream or fancy ingredients !

Moreover, now , the weather here in Canada demands more soup for winter nights. Like i said in my hot chocolate post, soups are also a perfect winter food. Having a bowl of hot soup gives such a cozy and warm feel. I can't image having soup as meal on hot days and that makes me wonder how easily weather influences our food habits and moods.

Ok, enough with my rambling, let's move on to the recipe. Usually i make soups for nights and one day when i had shared this soup on my IG story, many requested to share the recipe. So last week, i prepared this for our lunch that way i can take some decent pictures and share the recipe here. Now , let's check out on how to make this creamy delicious broccoli cheddar soup.

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Preparation Time : 1 hr | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Soup | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients

Broccoli Crown - 1 (medium size)

Celery stalk - 3

Onion - 1/4

Carrot - 1

Garlic - 3 gloves

Butter - 1 tbsp

Olive oil - 1 tsp

All purpose flour - 1 & 1/2 tbsp

Vegetable stock - 2 cups

Milk - 2 cups

Cheddar Cheese - 3 tbsp

Chili flakes - 1/2 tsp

Italian Seasoning - 1 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - to taste

Procedure

Cut the broccoli crown, celery stalk and onion into small pieces. Cut the carrot into thin slices and minced the garlic finely. Heat the oil & butter in a sauce pan, add garlic.

Saute till the garlic is fragrant and then add the onion,carrot & celery and give a good mix.

Next add the broccoli and saute them all in butter-oil mixture. Then add the flour & mix it well.

Next add the vegetable stock and milk.

Then add the salt, chili flakes and italian seasonings.

Simmer for a while till the veggies are soft. Once the veggies are cooked, transfer half of them in a blender jar and grind into smooth puree(if you have a immersion blender, use it here) and then transfer back into sauce pan.

Finally add the cheddar cheese and pepper powder. Bring into a gentle boil and switch off the flame.

Tasty and flavorful Broccoli Cheddar soup is ready to serve. For more soup recipes, check out my soup collections

Notes:

Add more or less of liquid as per your liking.
For more creamy texture, reduce the milk quantity and add a little bit of cream.
This soup thickens as it cooled down.
Instead of soup, you can use water also.

Monday, December 30, 2019

Coriander Pesto Pasta | Cilantro Pesto Pasta

Coriander/ Cilantro Pesto Pasta , a delicious pasta made from coriander leaves pesto. Pesto is a sauce originated from Italy and it's usually made with basil leaves. In today's recipe, i have used the same concept but instead of basil leaves, i used my favorite coriander/cilantro leaves.

If you have followed by blog or in Instagram for a while, you might knew by now that how much i like coriander leaves. At least once in a week, i make coriander chutney as side dish for my idli or dosa or whenever i make pizza at home, it would be mostly coriander pesto pizza, so why not pasta with coriander pesto? I must say it's so delicious, if you like me who are crazy about coriander/cilantro flavor, you must try this recipe.

When i had shared coriander pesto pizza on instagram, got few dms about the recipe. Though i make coriander pesto frequently, it would be for dinner mostly, so i didn't take any pictures to share the recipe here instantly, so send the recipe as private dms to those who asked. Last week when ST went to team lunch with his office mates, i prepared this coriander pesto pasta as lunch for myself. Luckily it was sunny, so took the step by step pictures too.

Here in today's recipe, i have added some broccoli along with the pasta to make a complete meal, but you can make this without any veggies too. That's it for this year, friends. Over all, it's been a very low year for blogging, compared to last five years, this year has only half the number of posts.But i'm glad that i can post atleast this much regardless of how hard it was!!! And i would like to finish off this year post with my favorite quotes

"You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here "

"Fight for your dreams and your dreams will fight for you"

by Paulo Coelho.
Now let's check out the recipe and will see you all with new post on New Year !!!

Coriander Pesto Pasta | Cilantro Pesto Pasta

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 1
Recipe Category: Pasta | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Pasta - 1/2 cup
Olive oil - 1 tsp
Broccoli - 1/2 cup
For Pesto
Cilantro/Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch
Cashew nuts - 1 tsp
Walnut - 1 tsp
Garlic - 1 cloves
Green chili - 1
Parmesan - 2 tbsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste

Procedure

First let's prepare pesto, clean the coriander leaves and keep it ready. In a mixie/blender jar, add the nuts,garlic & green chili and grind into coarse mixture.

Next add the coriander leaves, cheese & salt.

Finally add the olive oil and grind into smooth paste. That's it, coriander pesto is ready.Now for the pasta, bring the pot of water into boil.

Add the pasta & salt and cook as per the packet instructions and drain it.

In a kadai, add a tsp of olive oil, add the broccoli & saute until it's tender and develop slight color.

Keep the flame in low, then add the cooked pasta & pesto. Mix it all well together.

Remove from the flame and if needed add more cheese on top. Cilantro/Coriander Pesto Pasta is ready to serve.

How to make Coriander Pesto Pizza

Notes:

You can make this pesto ahead of time and use as whenever needed.
Ideal to pack for lunch boxes.
Coriander pesto stays well in refrigerator for 3 days.
I personally like to make fresh pesto.
You can used this pesto as sauce for your pizza, my another favorite way of using coriander pesto.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Brown Rice Noodles with Broccoli and Peanuts | Noodles Recipe

Brown Rice Noodles with Broccoli and Peanuts, it's my recent favorite to make with rice noodles. Recently i had bought this brown rice noodles from Costco and looking for some interesting and quick to make recipe with it, that's when i came across this recipe from pinterest while browsing. I liked the recipe instantly since it doesn't need any fancy ingredients or meat. All you need is some basic sauces and your favorite veggies to make this delicious and healthy noodles in no time. Adding peanuts give nice crunchiness to this noodles and also i highly recommend to use good quality of soy sauce and the sesame oil, that gives great flavor to this noodles. Now let's see how i made this yummy noodles.

Brown Rice Noodles with Broccoli and Peanuts

Preparation Time : 1 hr | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 1
Recipe Category: Noodles | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients
Brown Rice Noodles - 1 pack
Broccoli Florets - 1/2 cup
Bell pepper/Capsicum - 1/4 cup(roughly chopped)
Garlic - 1
Green onion - 2
Soy sauce - 1 tsp
Chili sauce - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Salt - as needed
Tomato Ketchup - 1 tsp
Roasted peanuts - 1 tbsp
Sesame oil - 2 tsp

Procedure

First cut the green and white part of green onions finely, capsicum into small chunks. Cook the noodles as per package instructions and keep it ready. Add tomato ketchup, soy sauce,chili sauce,sugar,salt into bowl, mix it well and keep it ready.

Heat the pan with oil, add the crushed garlic, then add the white part of green onions, saute for 30 secs, then add the broccoli and bell pepper, saute it in the oil for 2 mins.

Then add 1/4 cup of water in to the sauce mixture, mix it well and then add into the veggies, let it simmer for 3-4 mins in the low flame.

Next add the cooked noodles, give a quick toss and switch off the flame. Just before serving, add the roasted peanuts and green onions.

Tada, Delicious Noodles is ready to serve.

Notes:

Add more or less of sauces as per your liking.
Once all the sauces become thick, add the noodles into the pan.
Don't cook the noodles for long time, otherwise it turns mushy very easily.
Add the roasted peanut just before serving to retain its crunchiness.
I like more veggies in my noodles, but you can add more or less of veggies as per your preference.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Roundup for One Vegetable Different Ways

This is the first time that i'm doing roundup for the BM theme. As usual, this month BM also has some interesting themes and one among them is "One Vegetable Different Ways". The concept is you have to choose one vegetable as main ingredient and cook it in three ways. Really i liked the concept and had chosen "Broccoli" as main ingredients and cooked three dishes. Like me, my fellow bloggers also had chosen the different veggies and came up with some interesting recipes. Here is the compilation of all the dishes that we have shared for this theme.