For the second day of Blogging Marathon #26 week 1, the ingredient I have to use in either soup or salad is lentil. I have never tried to make a lentil based soup so far. So when I browsed the web, I came up with many soup recipes using moong dhal. One is this Dhal Sorba, the Indian version of soup. It is mild in flavour and when paired with croutons it made a filling breakfast. My daughter never relishes soup as it is. She has it with an unusual combination such as idli or dosa. Today when I served her morning dosa with dhal sorba, she gave me a look by which I understood that she doesn’t want to try it. Then I had to give some advice on tasting the dish before rejecting it. She was such a nice girl and she readily agreed to taste it. And she liked it along with the dosa. If you are preparing this adjust water according to the consistency you like. If you need creamier soup then add less water and if you like thinner soups, then add more. I used home made bread croutons and it added a nice crunch to the soup. Add the croutons just before serving otherwise you will end up with soggy and soft croutons.
Ingredients: Moong Dhal-1/2 cup Rice Bran Oil-2 tbs Onion-1 Garlic-2-3 pods Green Chilly-2 Turmeric Powder-1/2 tsp Salt-to taste Pudina Powder-1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder-1/2 tsp Cumin Powder-1/2 tsp Honey 2 tbs Procedure: 1. Wash the moong dhal. 2. Add it to pressure cooker along with 2 cups of water. 3. When the first whistle blows, simmer and cook for 5 minutes. 4. Let the pressure come down. 5. Mean while heat oil and add chopped garlic, green chillies and onions. 6. Saute until golden. 7. Add turmeric powder and saute for a minute. 8. Now add this to cooked moong dhal and blend the mixture with a hand blender until smooth. 9. Add enough water to adjust the consistency of the soup. 10. Add salt, pepper powder, cumin powder and pudina powder. 11. Bring it to boil. 12. Simmer and let the soup boil for 5 minutes for all the flavours to seep in. 13. Pour soup into bowls, add croutons and serve immediately.
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Idli / Dosa with Soup.. thats a new thought 🙂 Kids surely have their way or letting us know whats on their mind, right ? comforting bowl of Soup, there !
Such a healthy soup. When I make Lentil soup, my kids sometimes eat it with rice as well. They also see it as a way of eating dhal chawal 🙂 One dish couple of ways to eat! I love the addition of Pudina powder. Did you make it at home?
That’s quite an inviting bowl of soup.
waw!! what a nice blog you have Gayathri! I am here for the first time. You dish looks so tempting.
A protein packed shorba, i can have that bowl of goodness anytime.
lovely refreshing nutritious and healthy soup.
My Kiddo too has that habit of giving a look while trying new food!!! 🙂 Warm Bowl of this soup, that is what i need now!!! 🙂 Looks super yum!!!!
The soup looks nice, Gayathri
Love the croutons! Actually with soups, I am always more interested in the croutons instead of the soup. 🙂
perfect comfort food soup
OMG wonderful recipe Thanks for sharing dear 🙂
Soup looks yummy and healthy !!! Love the colour of the soup !!
Protein rich soup.
wow!!!The colour and consistency is so perfect Gayatri!
never heard about it. Yummy and interesting moong dal soup recipe.
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wonderful one.. new to me.
Your daughter is really sweet that she tasted this..:)..the picture looks so inviting Gayathri.
slurrpp , that what i did when i saw this picture
I sometimes have to coax my older one to at least give it a try 🙂 But this soup looks yumm!
Healthy and delicious soup Gayathri. Very inviting
Really healthy and yummy soup!!! love the bread in the background tooo!! bookmarking this!!
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Idli / Dosa with Soup.. thats a new thought 🙂 Kids surely have their way or letting us know whats on their mind, right ? comforting bowl of Soup, there !
Such a healthy soup. When I make Lentil soup, my kids sometimes eat it with rice as well. They also see it as a way of eating dhal chawal 🙂 One dish couple of ways to eat! I love the addition of Pudina powder. Did you make it at home?
I love the color of that soup. Glad your little one tasted it. My one doesn’t eat anything made with moong dal.
That is one protein & flavor packed soup. Lovely color.