07.05.10
Ingredients :
4 cups vegetable broth
2 tbsp soy sauce
½ tsp salt (namak)
½ tsp white pepper
½ cup corn
1 cup shredded cabbage
2 tbsp lemon juice (nimbu)
2 tbsp cornstarch
¼ cup water
1 tsp oil
Method :
Mix vegetable broth, soy sauce and seasonings in a saucepan.
Keep it to boil and add vegetables. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
Put lemon juice, and cook uncovered for 5 minutes.
Mix together cornstarch and water. Stir the paste into the soup, and continue to cook until the soup becomes slightly thicker, for about 3 minutes.
Mix in oil and serve hot.
06.24.10
Ingredients:
750 grams Lemons (Nimbu)
3/4 cup Salt (Namak)
1 cup Mustard Oil (Sarson Ka Tel)
1/2 teaspoon asafoetida
3 teaspoons Mustard seeds (Rai/Sarson)
3/4 cup Lemon (Nimbu) juice
2 teaspoons Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
3 teaspoons fenugreek seeds, powdered
1/2 cup Sugar (Cheeni)
Method:
Cut the lemons into eight pieces each, rub salt and keep for one week in a jar. Shake daily.
Heat the oil in a pan, remove from the fire, cool a little, add crushed asafoetida and mustard seeds and cover the pan.
Cool a little, mix lemon pieces, lemon juice, fenugreek powder, chili powder and sugar.
Keep for one week before serving.
05.10.10
Ingredients:
25 Lemons
6 tablespoons Salt
Method:
Prick the lemons with a sharp needle
Put in a jar with salt for one month in the sun till the lemons turn slightly golden brown.
This pickle can be kept for two years.
another variation is to slice lemons thickly , dip into salt from both sides and place in jar. Every day shake well so salted water touched the lemon. Pickle ready after 2 weeks