Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Easy preparation of vallarai soup (Brahmi soup) - Preparation time 15 mins

Easy preparation of vallarai soup - Preparation time 15 mins

My husband bought vallarai keerai from vegetable shop as it had so many medicinal properties. It is good to reduce inflammation, pain on joints, for memory, regularise blood circulation, good for diabetes, etc. Rich in antioxidant properties. Vallarai keerai is called brahmi. This is packed keerai is packed with health benefits

Since we had pain in leg we thought of using it in our diet. He won't consume this as thogayal and dr also suggested to reduce the tamarind content in our food so i have to think differently and light recipe.
I was wondering what to do.There will some astringent taste in this keerai which will go off when we make thogayal. When i searched through internet all the recipe had onion, tomato, etc. I didn't get the soup which i want. I thought of making a simple and easy soup in which we have to get the nutrition of the leaves and we have to get the taste of the soup along with the unique taste of the vallarai leaf. 
Went into kitchen and tried this soup. Actually it came out well and my husband liked the soup in the rainy evening :-). You also try out everyone in your family will love both the soup and you.

Ingredients:-
Vallarai leaves - 15 (Washed well, remove the hard stems, chop leaves to bits)
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Coarse Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
Sesame oil - 1/4 tsp
Water - 2 cups
Toor dhal - 1 tbsp (Softly cooked and mashed to paste)
One small piece of amla or lemon juice - 1/4 tsp

Preparation method:-
In a kadai or vessel add cumin seed, vallarai keerai, sesame oil, turmeric, amla, pepper and salt. Fry till the raw smell of the leaves goes off.
Add 1.5 cups of water to keerai and leave it to boil with all the ingredients. Keep the vessel covered when the soup is boiling.
Mix half cup of water with the mashed dal. When the keerai is cooked soft add the dhal and boil. 
Switch of the flame if you didn't add amla in the begining add the lemon juice at this stage and serve hot. It is simple to make, contains the flavor and taste of keerai also can be made within 10 mins if you have boiled toor dhal.

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