So now as I am on a health roll, soups and salads make a very important part of my diet. I keep experimenting with different favours of soups and keep trying mixing and matching the ingredients.

Here is a recipe I tried over the weekend and turned out really good, simple, flavourful and full of goodness.

Spinach Soup with Mixed Vegetables

Ingredients that you will need:

• Spinach- 250 gms
• Garlic Cloves- 3-4
• Olive Oil- 2 Table Spoons
• Chopped Mix Veggetables- 150 gms( cabbage, carrots, beans, capsicum, corn, peas, cauliflower florets, mushrooms)
• Vegetable Stalk- 1 litre
• Corn Starch- 1 Table Spoon
• Mixed Herbs- 1 Tea Spoon
• Paprika- 1/2 Tea Spoon
• Salt to Taste
• Grated Cheese to Garnish

These ingredients are good enough for 2 large serves

Method

• Heat 1 table spoon olive oil in a pan and add chopped garlic to it.
• Saute the garlic for about 2 minutes.
• Roughly chop the spinach, wash it and then add to the pan.
• Saute, garlic and spinach, for about 8 minutes, the spinach would be more or less cooked by now. Turn off the gas, and empty the spinach in a bowl and let it cool down.
• Put the gas again on heat and add 1 table spoon olive oil, take all chopped vegetables and cook them for about 10 minutes on low heat. Cover the pan, and cook for another five minutes.
• Once the spinach cools down a bit, blend it to a smooth paste with the help of a blender/mixer.
• Add this spinach paste to the cooked vegetables and stir it for about 2 minutes.
• Add vegetable stalk, or incase you dont have a stalk ready, add normal water. Bring the soup to a boil.
• Add spices, and then mix the cornstarch in 2 spoons of water and add to the soup. This will get the soup to a thicker consistency.
• Let it simmer for another couple of minutes and serve hot garnished with grated cheese.

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