Feb 25, 2009

HERBED WHITE BEAN SOUP

INGREDIENTS:---
Dried white beans ---- 1 cup
Vegetable stock --- 4 cups
Water ----- 2 cups
Carrot --- 1 no. chopped
Yellow onion ---- 1/4 cup chopped
Garlic ---- 2 cloves crushed and chopped
Dried parsley --- 1 tea sp
Dried sage --- 1/2 tea sp
Dried crushed rosematy -- 1/4 tea sp
Dried basil --- a pinch
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper --- 1/4 tea sp
Small potato cooked and mashed --- 1 no.

METHOD:----
Soak white beans in water for over night.
In a pressure cooker add beans,carrots, onions, and all herbs, salt to taste,crushed garlic,vegetable stock and cook for 3 whistles,switch off and let it cool open and mix well and add mashed potato and water again bring back to heat and bring to a full boil season with ground pepper powder boil for 5 min. more and serve hot.
Garnish with greated cheese and chopped parsely
In original recipe they cooked this soup on stove top in a open sauce pan that will take long time so I changed that and cooked in pressure cooker.I hope you all like this.

27 comments:

Kitchen Chronicles said...

The soup is looking very nice and delicious. Its lunch time here now & after seeing your soup I am feeling very hungry.

CurryLeaf said...

Perfect soup and very herby entry.Love the soup Rekha.
I am settling down and blogging on and off.Thanks for asking.

Sunshinemom said...

Soup looks tempting and healthy! Nice garnish too!

Anonymous said...

Gosh..Drooling..Thats a wonderful nutritious soup dear..

Dershana said...

Really does look wholesome and nice!

Divya said...

lovely soup never tried white bean yet....superb

Indian Khana said...

Umm something new for me...looks quite gud....thanks for sharing the recipe :)

Deepthi Shankar said...

that is quite a filling soup .. looks delicious

Anonymous said...

Looks hearty and comforting. Lovely garnish!

Pavithra Kodical said...

Love the aroma of herbs..Perfect soup :)

Priya Suresh said...

Excellent soup Rekha, i love these sort of soups much...protein packed soup looks gorgeous dear!!

Cham said...

Oh my, I really love ur bean and the cheese sprinkled on top Rekha!

Trupti said...

wow Rekha Soup looks very delicious ..& healthy too ..You can also send this recipe to Neha's SWC:Soup

Manju said...

the soup just looks perfect with all those herbs!!

tasty life said...

soup presentation bavundi. Herbed white bean soup title kudaa bavundi.

Lavanya said...

soup looks delicious and is very healthy !!

Sanghi said...

Wonderful click and delicious!!
:)

Sanghi said...

Wonderful click and delicious!!
:)

Neha said...

Healthy soup n a lovely click. So nice garnish. Thanx for sending..

Unknown said...

good one..looks spicy and delicious...

Shama Nagarajan said...

yummy soup dear

notyet100 said...

lovely click,...nd this looks so healthy too,..

Usha said...

Sounds like a hearty and yum soup, loved the garnish too !

Unknown said...

kalakunga.. nice click.. healthy soup..

AnuSriram said...

Soup looks healthy.. Nice flavours added up together!

Recipeswap said...

This looks delicious and hearty.....will be great for dinner!

Unknown said...

I am a sucker for Bean soups. Absolutely love them. Thanks for sending these goody bowls my way for AWED French :)

DK
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