Mixed vegetable soup
Ingredients
Onion - 1 medium size
Carrot - 1 medium size
Potato - 1 medium size
Cabbage - 1/4 size
Spinach - A small bunch
French beans - 3 to 4
Tomatoes - 2
Cauliflower florets - 4 to 5 small size
Butter - 1tbsp
Whole meal flour - 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Water - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Method
- Peel onion, potato, carrot and chop them as fine as possible.
- Clean and finely chop the cabbage, spinach, French beans, and tomato.
- Grate the cauliflower along with the tender part of the stem.
- Heat butter in a thick bottomed saucepan and add the chopped onion and saute
for two minutes over medium heat and add all the chopped and grated vegetables.
Stir and cook on high heat for few minutes.
- Sprinkle the whole meal flour and cook for two minutes. Stirring continuously
over medium heat or till flour starts giving a cooked aroma. Add salt.
- Stir in the water and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer till the vegetables
are cooked and the soup reaches a fairly thick consistency.
- Gradually stir in the milk and simmer for few minutes.
- Cool and can be given it to the child.
Nutritional information
This soup provides carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins especially this soup will give beta carotene, folic acid, fibre, and small amounts of vitamin C. This can be given any time or before dinner. First time it should be given during the daytime.
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