Drumstick soup recipe
Healthy and easy to make Murungakkai soup recipe
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 1.5 drumsticks | Murungakaai
- ¼ tsp butter
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 green chili
- 5-6 cloves garlic
- ½ tomato
- Few coriander stems
- 1 tbsp yellow moong dal
- 1 cup water to cook the soup
- 1.5 cups water for soup
- Salt as needed
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ¼ tsp sombu | fennel seeds
- Pepper powder to taste
Instructions
- Add butter to a pressure cooker / pan.
- Now add one bayleaf, green chili, garlic cloves, ½ portion of tomato, few coriander stems and 1 tbsp moong dal to this.
- Saute for a minute and add chopped drumstick. I used 1.5 drumstick.
- Add 1 cup of water, little salt, turmeric powder and fennel seeds
- Cover and close the cooker.
- Pressure cook for 3 whistles
- Open the cooker once the pressure subsides, cool everything
- Grind everything
- Add 1 cup water while grinding
- Strain this well
- Add water while straining
- Discard the fibre
- Add salt, pepper powder and mix well.
- Let this boil and switch off
- Drumstick soup is ready
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Notes
1. You can add ½ onion while cooking the drumstick
2. You can skip the tomato and add lemon juice towards the end
3. Masoor dal can be replaced with yellow moong dal.
4. You can also add a tbsp of millet to enhance the thickness of the soup