Recipe - How to Cook Flavorful and Healthy Vegetable Soup

When the temperatures outside reach freezing levels, nothing will warm you up like a bowl of soup. Unlike hot caffeinated beverages that leave you dehydrated, soup nourishes you from within and helps increase core body temperature. A bowl of your favorite soup will warm you from inside out on a cold, chilly night, keeping you toasty warm.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons chopped Spring Onion (or normal onion)
2 teaspoons minced Garlic
1/3 cup chopped Carrots
1/3 cup chopped Green Cabbage
1/3 cup Sweet Corn Kernels
1/3 cup chopped French Beans
1/4 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
1/2 tablespoon tablespoon Vinegar
2 tablespoons Cornstarch (white corn flour)
1/2 tablespoon Butter or Oil
2½ cups Water or Vegetable Stock
Salt to taste

Directions

- Chop all the veggies (carrot, cabbage, french beans, onion and garlic) into small pieces as shown in the picture.

- Add 2 tablespoons cornstarch (corn flour) in a small bowl.

- Add 3 tablespoons water and mix well.

- Heat 1/2 tablespoon oil or butter in a large, heavy bottomed stockpot over medium flame. Add chopped onion and garlic.

- Sauté for 1-2 minutes.

- Add carrots, cabbage, sweet corn kernels, french beans and salt (only for veggies).

- Stir and cook for 3-4 minutes.

- Add 2½ cups water or vegetable stock. Stir well and bring the mixture to a boil. When it starts boiling, add salt (add as required as we have already added salt for veggies).

- Add black pepper powder.

- Add cornstarch-water mixture and stir continuously for a minute to prevent lump formation.

- Stir and cook until mixture turns thick and no raw smell of cornstarch. It will take around 7-8 minutes. Add vinegar and mix well.

- Taste the soup for the seasonings at this stage and add more if required. Turn off the flame. Transfer hot soup of vegetables into individual serving bowls and serve.
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