Potato Onion Soup

Potato Onion soup is a creamy, sweet, mouth tangling delicious recipe. It is filled with bungles of nutrients. This can be used as starter before your meals. Another advantage of this recipe is, it’s very cheap. All the ingredients used in this recipe are regularly used kitchen items.

Ingredients:

Potato (medium size) – 3

Onion (medium size) – 1

Tomato puree – ¼ cup

Corn flour – 1 tbsp.

Carrot (finely sliced) – 1(optional)

Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.

Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp

Black pepper powder – ½ tsp.

Red chilli powder – ½ tsp.

Water – 2 cups

Butter – 1 tbsp.

Salt to taste

Method:

• Peel off the potatoes and onions

Tip: Soak the onions in the water so that the skin comes out easily without any tears

• Cut them into big pieces and pressure cook for 2 whistles
• Blend the potato-onion mixture in an electric mixer. Add tomato to the mixture and blend further more.
• Heat butter in a pan
• Add the above mixture into the pan. Add black pepper powder, chilli powder and salt.

Tip: You can add finely sliced carrot for additional taste.

• Let it boil for a minute. Dissolve corn flour into the water and slowly add it to the above mixture.
• Stir continuously, add little lemon juice and boil until thick.
• Potato Onion Soup is ready. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot

Nutritional facts:

• Potato is rich in potassium and vitamin C
• They are one of the best natural sources of starch
• Tomatoes are low in saturated fats, cholesterol, and sodium.
• It has antioxidants, which protects the body cells from damage.
• Tomatoes are also a good source of thiamine, chromium, vitamin E, vitamin K, manganese and copper
• Carrots are rich in vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, and potassium.
• Lemon juice helps in stimulating bile-production capacity of liver which in turn and helps in digestion.
• Regular consumption of lemon juice is good for liver and helps in digestion.
• Pepper reduces respiratory illnesses
• Pepper helps asthmatics breathe more easily