Recipe- Everyone's Favorite Light And Easy Sweet Corn Soup

Light and easy Sweet Corn Soup – veggies like green peas, carrots make it more nutritious. It’s very lightly spiced and make a great soup for cold days. It’s one of the very popular Indo-Chinese recipes. Did you guys know that this soup is very popular in the Indo-Chinese cuisine. And generally also, it’s a very popular soup in India. Mostly it consists of sweet corn with veggies like carrots, green beans, cabbage, peas. It’s usually lightly flavored with vinegar. However I always add up adding so many condiments to my sweet corn soup like sweet chili sauce, green chili sauce, soy sauce, ahh there’s so much! It’s like I can’t drink the sweet corn soup until and unless I add these things to it. Do you do the same?

Ingredients

1 cup sweet corn divided, I used canned sweet corn
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons oil use oil of choice
1/2 inch ginger finely chopped (6 grams)
3-4 garlic cloves finely chopped (7 grams)
1 green chili finely chopped
1/3 cup finely chopped carrots
1/4 cup green peas frozen, soaked in warm water for 10 minutes
2 stalks green onions chopped, white & green parts separated
3 cups water or vegetable broth
black pepper to taste
salt to taste, around 3/4 teaspoon
1.5 teaspoon white vinegar
1/2- 3/4 teaspoon soy sauce or tamari for gluten-free
1 teaspoon sugar or to taste
4 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with 1/2 cup water

Method

* To a blender add 1/2 cup sweet corn and 1/2 cup water. I have used canned sweet corn here. Blend to a smooth paste and set it aside.

* Heat a large pot on medium heat. Once its hot, add oil to it and then add the chopped ginger, garlic and green chili.

* Saute the garlic and ginger for 30 seconds and then add the carrots, green peas and green onion whites.

* Also add the remaining 1/2 cup of sweet corn along with the sweet corn paste that we had prepared earlier.

* Cover the pot with a lid and let the veggies cook on medium heat for 5-6 minutes.

Then stir in 3 cups of vegetable broth or water. Add black pepper and salt.

* Also add the white vinegar, soy sauce and sugar and mix to combine.

* Dissolve 4 teaspoons of cornstarch in 1/2 cup water. Stir well and then add to the pot.

* Stir and let the soup come to a boil. Lower the heat and let it simmer for 2-3 more minutes.

* Garnish the sweet corn soup with green onion greens and serve hot.