PEAS & CABBAGE CLEAR SOUP

Winter time in my city and there’s a nip in the air and one of the comfort foods to turn to in this weather is piping hot soup! I’m partial to thin, clear soups over the thick variety usually where corn flour is added. This is one of my favorite soups that has healed me through typhoid and colds and coughs - quick, healthy, comforting and so, so filling that I can skip a meal after having this. I like it best with lots of water (more than the usual mentioned in the recipe) along with the ingredients.


RECIPE:

200 gm - frozen peas.
1 cup finely chopped cabbage
4 cups - water.
Half a lemon.
One pinch - pepper powder.
1/2 tsp - vinegar. (i used chilli vinegar)
Salt to taste.

METHOD:

In a kadai/pan boil the peas and cabbage with the water. I like to add lots of water for boiling so that it is thin and the flavored water is delicious to drink.

Remove from flame and transfer to a bowl.

While it is still hot, add pepper powder, a half a spoon of vinegar and salt to taste.

Finally, squeeze in the juice of half a lemon.

Delicious hot, peas n cabbage clear soup is yours to have on a cold evening.

I have made this soup with peas and cabbage (and half a carrot) to keep it simple, but you can add chopped carrots, cauliflower, even finely chopped tender beans and broccoli to the pan and turn this into a healthy vegetable clear soup. The rest of the ingredients remain the same (pepper, vinegar, salt and lemon and that’s what gives this soup its yummy flavor.