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SOUPS

Soups are most often eaten with the main course in ayurvedic cooking. Usually it is made of beans, peas or lentils and spices. It provide the complement to a grain (usually rice) to make a very digestible, high protien dish. The soup is considered to be appetizer and hence served before the food or with the food. It is a thick liquid diet and hence includes all the assence of all the ingredients put into it. In many restaurants it is considered as starter. It is generally served hot and hence increases the digestive fire and also helps digestive organs to secreat good quality of digestive enzymes.

All the soups mentioned here serves 4 person approximately.

KOKAM SOUP

Ingredients

  • 9 dried kokum fruits
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro leaves
  • 4 curry leaves, fresh or dried
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 tbsp chickpea flour
  • 2 bay leaves
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • 2 pinches black pepper
  • 1 tbsp jaggary

Method

firstly kokam fruits are washed and soak in 1 cup of water for 20 mintues. Squeez the fruit several times into this water and remove it from the water. Heat a saucepan until medium-hot and add the ghee, cumin seeds, curry leaves, cilantro and bay leaves. Stir or shake the panuntil the seeds pop. Pour in the fruit water plus 2 more cups of wter. Mix the chickpea flour with the last cup of water very well, then add to the soup. Stir to prevent lumps forming. Add the cinnamon, black pepper, clove, salt and jaggary. Stir and boil gently for at least five minutes.

Except the stainless steel, do not store this in a metal container as the acid in the fruit will react to the metal and can make soup bad.

Medicinal value –

This soup is good appetizer and digestive. It stimulates normal gastric fire and detoxifies the body toxins from ama. It is also an excellent blood cleanser. This is the soup that works as appetizer if taken before meals and digestive if taken after meals. It is also good for diarrhoea, heart troubles, swellings, hemorrhoids and worms. It can help as anti-allergic agent in skin rash.


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