Country Chicken Soup

Contributor: Sarita Alla
Chicken soup ithe long back country chicken soup chesa..you can check here.. I do follow Indian style soup only... Recipe here

Vegetable Soup

Contributor: Usha Rao
Vegetable Soup - this is a very easy soup and you can throw in any vegetable you like. I don't like store bought stocks so I use bouillon cubes. Maggi vi chinna cubes vastunai, each box has 20 cubes and those cubes are just perfect for when making a small pot of soup. I have seen only chicken and beef flavors. Vegetable flavor loo vastundo ledo teliyadu. But you can use any other brand or just use stock. There is the recipe...

Ingredients:
1 – 2 tsp. Oil
1 – 1 ½ tsp. Ginger Garlic Paste
4-5 Button mushrooms diced
1 small – medium Carrot sliced
4-6 Green Beans cut into 1 – 1 ½” pieces
1 tender Celery sliced
Handful of Moong Beans Sprouts or canned White Beans (opt)
1 small Tomato chopped or 1 – 2 tbsp. tomato Sauce (opt. I did not use it yesterday)
3-5 small Cauliflower Florets cut into small pieces (I did not use it yesterday)
Handful of Kale or Spinach chopped (I used kale yesterday)
1/8 tsp. Pepper Powder (adjust to taste)
¼ tsp Salt (adjust to taste)
1 mini cube Bouillon
2 cups Water
Cilantro chopped

In a pan heat oil and sauté ginger garlic paste for few seconds.
Add all the vegetables except sprouts, kale/spinach & cilantro. Sauté the vegetables for 2-3 minutes until veggies are lightly roasted. Add tomato sauce, salt & pepper and saute for few seconds. If using tomato, cook for a minute until tomato is soft and mushy.
Add water, bouillon and bring the water to a boil. Let it boil for a minute or 2 until the vegetables are cooked, especially cauliflower if using.
Add sprouts and kale/spinach. If using kale cook for 2-3 minutes until kale is cooked. If using spinach cook for 1 – 1 ½ minutes. Add cilantro turn of the heat and serve.

Again, you can use stock instead of water+bouillon.
Tomato is optional usually do not added it as I usually add tomato to almost all the curries I make. So I leave it out in the soup. If there is any left over canned tomato sauce, I add a little.
Also you can add vegetables to your preference. I usually add lots of vegetables as it is filling.
Sometimes I also add some diced onions along with other vegetables

Creamy Vegan Chickpeas Soup

Contributor: Keerti Addula
try this recipe.

Microwave Spicy Tofu Salad

Contributor : Usha Rao

These are approximate measures.. type chestu approximate quantity rasanu.. I might have added more spice too, as it was very spicy and did not need to add any dressing to the salad

1 pack extra firm tofu (cut into 32 cubes)
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp. garam masala
1/2 tsp. tandoori powder or tikka masala forgot what i used, i think used tandoori masala 
little bit of lime juice
salt
1 - 2 tbsp. oil

Mix all the ingredients and marinate for 30 - 60 minutes. Taste the tofu and adjust seasoning according to your taste
Arrange tofu in a micorwave safe plate and microwave for 2 minutes. Flip the tofu and microwave for another 2 minutes. Either flip or toss the tofu and bake for another 3 - 4 minutes tossing them every 1 1/2 minutes. Total microwave time is 6 - 8 minutes.

For salad, some lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, red onions or veggies of your choice. Mix all teh veggies, ad the tofu and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil. My tofu was quite spicy so I did not use any dressing or vinaigrette for the salad. 

I once tried this tofu with cubes of firm tofu, that is precut tofu cubes. Those cubes were quite small and microwaved for 3 - 4 minutes turning the pieces every 1 1/2 minutes. 

You can saute tofu in a pan or also grill them as I did here.http://www.myspicykitchen.net/.../05/18/tandoori-tofu-curry/

Bone Soup ~ Paaya

1. Contributor: Padmalata Reddy
nenu eppudu try cheyyaledu ra coz it is like 8 hrs of cooking but one of my tamil friend made it for me while I was pregnant with Anshika, edo paya soup tagalani undi ante tanu chesukoni vachindi potluck ki... I remember she first fried on the gas first, like nippulu meda kalchutamu kada first aa trotters nee kalchi then she added so many items, I don't even remember bu yes she did add coconut milk which gave unique flavor and smoothness to the soup.... but on of my hydbadi food blogger who's recipes I can vouch for is Zaiqa.net, anni authentic recipes when comes to hyd mutton recipes.... you can try that!! http://zaiqa.net/2008/12/nihari/

2. Contributor: Sushma Pinjala

Nenu paya curry chesanu Kani soup try cheyaledu. Here is the link. http://sushmapinjala.blogspot.com/2010/08/paya-curry.html

3. Contributor: Usha Rao

bone soup nenu ela chesta. I used lime juice in the recipe but sometimes I use tamarind paste. http://www.myspicykitchen.net/.../day-7-bone-soup-bone.../

Cream of Mushroom & Tomato Soup

1. Contributor: Sushma Rao
nenu cream of mushroom soup chestha intlo..

mushroom soup: i use half box mushrooms, 1 onion, 2 pods garlic, 1-1.5 cups milk,pepper pwdr, butter 1 tpsp pr olive oil, i prefer olive oil, 1 tbsp all purpose flour..
first finely chop mushrooms n onions n garlic..pan lo olive oil heat chesi add garlic, avi colour change ayyaka, add onion..cook till they turn transparent, add the mushrooms, avi water antha ooze aitayi kada, then i take out some mushrooms out, arnd 2 spoons or so..inka aa migith mix lo add maida, fry it for some time, add the milk,take care no lumps are formed..milk koncham boil ayyaka switch off the stove, let it cool and blend this, then again pour this bc into the pan, let it boil, chk for consistency, u can add milk or mari thick anipisthe waater, season with salt n pepper n the 2 tspoons of mushrooms we had reserved earlier..

Barley Kichidi

1. Contributor: Prasanna Manda
Barley Kchidi:
Ingredients List: Barley cooked(pressure cooked),peanuts roasted,aloo cut into small sqaures, (any veggies like carrots,peas alaa meeku nachithe vesukovachu) ,fresh grated cocnut,kothimeera,karivepaku....and thadka items..jeera,musterd seed must migathavi meeku nachithe vesukovachu.....try this ammailu naakaithe baga nachindi...barely is healthy tooo...please let me know if you like it too..
Barelu ni mundu cook chesukovali koncham water tagginchi posukunte better...( koncham sticy ga vuntundi Khicdi saboodana la podi podi ga vundadu..) first tadka: oil(Ghee tastes bettter kani nenu oil vesthanu) lo( chanadal,urad dal optional)l, jeera,musterd seeds,green chillies ivanni vesi veyinchaka...cut chesina potatoes vesi koncham sepu magganivvali...you can add onions if you like....potato vundikaka cooked Barely andulo vesi koncham sepu magganivvali andulo roasted peanuts mari powder la kakunda grind chesi pettukunnadi vesi...paina kothimmera karivepaku vesi mix chesi serve cheyyadame...karivepaku munde vesukovachu I forgot to add that.....ooops fresh coconut marchipoya...
cocnut sometimes I put before alooo and sometime in the end...ma ayanaki last lo vesthe ishtam..naku mundu so mee tasteni batti vesukovachu

Millet Couscous Salad

1. Contributor: Jalaja
Millet Salad recipe http://www.simpleglutenfreekitchen.com/2013/03/millet-couscous-salad-with-mung-sprouts-and-pom-seeds.html

Smoked Kidney Beans Salad

1. Contributor: Susarla Radha Devi
memu okasari Russian Salad try chesamu very tasty and heavy too...koncham ila chesamu
http://cooks.ndtv.com/recipe/show/smoked-kidney-bean-salad-106679

Quinoa Salad

1. Contributor: Ujvala Kiran
cuscus salad laga Quinoa salad chesukovachu. ee link choodandi, hope it helps ..
-- http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/best-quinoa-salad-recipes
-- http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/herbed-quinoa-recipe/index.html
-- http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-specials/quinoa-salad-recipe/index.html

Raw Corn & Avocado Salad

Contributor: Sruthi Mangu
Naa friend share chesindhi FB lo ee link, simple ga bagundhi anipinchi.. http://www.vegfriend.com/forum/topics/raw-corn-and-avocado-salad

Sprouted whole moth

1. Contributor: Viji Ram
Moth whole ki ee salad recipe dorikindi...and i think whole moong dal use chesinattu use cheyachemo ivi...
http://archysrecipes.blogspot.com/2009/01/matki-kal-palya-sprouted-whole-moth.html

Quinoa Soup

1. Contributor: @nooo ...........
idigo Quinoa tho soup cheyachu..may be u can try, nenu cheyalanukuntunna..
http://showmethecurry.com/soups/quinoa-soup-vegetarian-recipe.html

Bone Soup

1. Contributor: ܧhå Rãø
nenu goat (mutton) bones tho chesta. In the link below I used toor dal but it can be skipped.
http://www.myspicykitchen.net/2011/02/15/day-7-bone-soup-bone-chaaru/

The other version is without toor dal & veggies. It has liberal amount of ginger garlic paste & cinnamon. Oil loo bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, shah jeera or jeera veyali.. then saute onions followed by ginger garlic paste. Then coriander powder, green chilies (opt), chili powder, salt turmeric and garam masala powder (cardamom+cloves+shah jeera+black pepper+cinnamon) vesi baga kalapali. Then add bones and fry them nicely for about five minutes. Then add tamarind paste or juice and mix well. Required amount of water posi pressure cook it. Pressure release ayyaka, check it for taste, adjust seasoning, cilantro vesi few minutes maraganichi remove form heat.

Tamarind badalu tomatoes kuda veyachu. Before adding bones, add tomatoes and koncham mushy ayyaka, bones vesi follow the rest of the steps.

Vegetable Stock

1.  Contributor: Ujvala 
veg stock, any american grocerieslo [safeway, lucky etc]  dorukutundi;

or u can prepare one ahead like this :

http://www.thekitchn.com/basic-techniques-how-to-make-h-136725

aa linklo, okko image meeda click chesthe, image kinda captionlo process ardham ayipotundi;

maa dh last time okasari, costco nunchi techinatlu gurthu veg stock.

 

2.  Contributor: Divya Shiva :)
vegetable stock meeru intlone chesukovachu
link lo vegetable stock ani find cheyyandi
below is the link:

http://www.sailusfood.com/2012/03/03/sweet-corn-vegetable-soup-recipe/

 

3.  Contributor: Pavani ... 

knorr vi cubes vuntayi chudandi one cube boiling water lo vesthe veg stock ready.... 

Garden Vegetable Soup

1.  Contributor: UJVALA p

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/garden-vegetable-soup-recipe/index.html

aa link choodu, bagundi;  basically, just saute whatever vegs you like, add veg stock, bring to boil, add masalas you like, garnish with cilantro, serve it hot  :)

Recipe for vegetable stock is here
 

Salad Recipes

1. Contributor: USha
ee salad loo kuda vesukovachu celery - Chickpea salad recipe

Nuvvu party annavani above link echa but check this also, all the salads I have in my blog.. Click here for the link

Already Contributed Recipes

Burnt corn salad recipe here
Sweet corn salad recipe here
Garbanzo beans salad recipe here
Couscous Salad recipe here
Sprouted moong salad.. recipe here

Beetroot Radish Salad

1. Contributor: Usha
I make salad once in a while. Here is the recipe link.

Beetroot Raita

Contributor: Usha
Nenu beetroot raita try chesa, baanee vundindhi.. Here is the recipe link

Tomato soup

1. Contributor: Sriharsha
here is the recipe link

I don't like a lot of cinnamon...so nenu cinnamon lekunda chestha soup
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