Broccoli Soup

Ingredients :

Broccoli Forets : 1 cup (cut into small pcs)
Milk : 1 cup
Butter : 1tsp
Onion :  One medium size ( grated )
Garlic : crushed ( 2 tsp0
Red Chilly Flakes ( 1 tsp)
Black Peeper Powder
Corn flour : (2 tsp)
Salt & Sugar
Fresh Cream (optional)

Procedure :


Cook the broccoli florets in  2 cups of water by adding a little salt
Heat butter and fry onion and garlic together
Add this to the broccoli broth
Stir the whole mixture with the help of a bar blendar
Add a little sugar
Finally add milk and cornflour and stir thoroughly to make it smooth
Boil for another five minutes
Sprinkle red chilly flakes and black pepeer powder
Add a little fresh cream
Place a blanched broccoli on top of the soup
Serve hot with garlic bread

Chicken Lemon Coriander Soup

Ingredients :

Boneless Chicken : (100 gms) thinly sliced, marinated with salt, black pepper and soya sauce
Sweetcorn : (25gms) boiled and made into paste
Garlic : finely chopped (1tsp)
Ginger julienne (1tsp)
Onion : finely chopped (2 tsp)
Green chilly : finely chopped (1tsp)
Fresh Coriander :( finely chopped,  1cup)
Lemon juice ( 4tsp)
Black pepper powder (2tsp)
Butter : 1 tsp

Procedure :

Heat butter and fry onion, garlic together
Add the marinated chicken and the sweetcorn paste into it
Add 2 cups of water and bring it to boil.
Add the ginger julienne, green chillies and coriander
Finally add the lemon juice and sprinkle black pepper powder on top

(This recipe serves for two )

Spinach Soup

Ingredients :

1 tbsp. Butter
2 cups. Fresh Spinach (chopped)
1 Small Onion (chopped)
1 cup Milk
1  tbsp. Flour (Maida)
1 tbsp Refined Oil
4 cloves of Garlic
1 Green Chilly (finely chopped)
Fresh Cream (optional)
1/2tsp sugar
To taste. Salt & pepper

Procedure :

Blanch spinach in hot water with a pinch of salt.  and refresh in cold water.
Heat oil in a pan, add chopped onions and sauté. Add crushed garlic, chopped green chilly salt, sugar and pepper.
Puree together with boiled spinach.
Make a thin white sauce by melting butter in a nonstick pan.Then add maida and cook for 5-7 mins. Slowly add the milk so that no lumps are formed.
Add the spinach puree to this and bring it to a boil. Add a little water if required.
Add 2 tsp fresh cream (optional) and serve spinach soup hot with bread croutons/ soup stick.

Wonton Soup

Ingredients :

stock made from chicken broth
finely chopped carrot and cabbage
finely chopped spring onions and capsicum
finely chopped garlic and green chillies
shrimp/shredded chicken (if required, you can keep it purely veg too)
flour, seived with hot water, a pinch of salt, and a little refined oil
butter
tomato/chilli sauce

Procedure :

Making the wonton: Add a pinch of salt, and mix the carrot, the cabbage, the garlic, the spring onion, the capsicum, the green chillies. Make small balls from the flour dough, flatten with a roller and and fill them with this mixture. Wrap these up to form "wonton balls".
Bring the stock to boil, and add salt, black pepper, and butter. Slowly add the wonton balls. Do NOT stir. Boil for 15 minutes.

Mixed Hawaiian Salad

Ingredients :

Shredded Chicken ( Marinated with salt, pepper and vinegar)
Shrimps ( shelled and cleaned )
Home made mayonnaise

Finely chopped Spring onion
Cheese (grated)
Red Chilly Flakes
Oregano

Procedure :

For the home made mayonnaise ( egg less) mix 4 tbsp hung curd ( fresh), 4 tsp olive oil, 1/2 tsp mustard powder, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp white vinegar and a little lukewarm water.  Put all of them into a mixing bowl and mix them thoroughly with a hand blender.







Boil the shredded chicken along with the shrimp with little water that is just sufficient to cook.

Take a bowl and mix the boiled chicken, shrimp, the mayonnaise, cheese, red chilly flakes and oregano.

Refrigerate before serving.

Green Salad

Ingredients :

Broccoli : cut into florets with its stem (2 cups)
Sweet corn : boiled (1/2 cup)
Green peas : boiled (1/2 cup)
Spring Onion
Lettuce ( blanched )
Salad Dressing  - { Lemon juice (2tsp), Crushed Garlic (2 tsp), Red Chilly Flakes (1tsp), White Vinegar (1tsp) and Olive Oil (2 tbsp) }

Procedure :

Parboil the Broccoli Florets by keeping into boiling water for just 2-3 minutes. Add a pinch of salt to the water to retain the brilliant green colour.
Take a salad bowl arrange lettuce, broccoli, boiled green peas and sweet corn together
Now make the salad dressing  in a separate bowl by adding lemon juice, crushed garlic, white vinegar, olive oil and red chilly flakes together and mixing them  thoroughly with a spoon . Add a little salt and sugar.
Pour the salad dressing into the salad bowl and mix them thoroughly
You can refrigerate the salad  and serve when necessary.

Chingri @ Chilika

Chilika is a large, shallow, brackish, estuarine lake located at the mouth of the Daya river where it pours it's water into the Bay of Bengal on the eastern sea board of India. Located to the south of the holy city of Puri, the aboard of Lord Jagannath, Chilika is a fascinating ecosystem that is the home to Irawaddy Dolphins, migratory birds and -what is of current interest to us -a world of seafood in the shape of prawns, lobsters and crabs.

After paying the obligatory obeisance to the Lord at Puri many gastronomically inclined pilgrims very often make an additional pilgrimage to Chilika to delight in and savour the enormous variety of seafood that is available at small shack like food joint that dot the shores of the lake and the estuarine sand bars.

There are two types of food joints.. the first type located on the shore serve truly gigantic crabs and lobsters cooked in authentic Odhisa style and served hot with rice but the more adventurous tourists might consider taking a ride for going to the extreme edge where the river finally meets the sea and look for the freshly landed catch of not just prawns but also many other types of fish like pomfret, sardin etc. that are dressed and cooked under the open skies and in tiny charcoal fired ovens on the shore.

If you delight in seafood then this is where you must be.

Recipe of Chingri @ Chilka as it was cooked instantly  by one of the shack owners on the shore is as follows:

Heat mustard oil in a wok on high heat
Add finely chopped onion, tomato and green chillies into it.
Then add thoroughly cleaned and washed Chingri ( Shrimps) into the mixture.
Add salt and stir fry together till no water is left in the wok.