Today is doc Martin Luther King's Birthday. He believed inward looking beyond himself. He worked for the betterment of dark people . I decided to practise something altruistic today also as well as convey to you lot a warm, hearty, protien-rich gluten-free, vegan soup as well as about data to human face upward the influenza season.
Did you lot know that Jan is Soup Month?? Well, I didn't know either, until recently! It does brand feel though: non alone is it wintertime as well as cold, it also happens to last influenza season! Kids become dorsum to schoolhouse later on the Christmas holidays as well as come upward habitation sick!! Is it whatever surprise that nosotros essay comfort foods similar soup??
Where I come upward from, soup is also used every bit a side alongside rice. So you lot could mix the soup alongside the rice as well as eat. Well, it would as well as then last rice-bean soup! ;) Just kidding! The soup-like sides that nosotros brand are called Saaru- Upkari inward konkani. If I were to literally interpret it as well as then the give-and-take " saaru" way gravy as well as " upkari" way " sauté". So it could technically interpret into a sauté alongside gravy. In reality is a soup. We brand saaru-upkari of nearly all kinds of beans. The edible bean of selection is cooked alongside 4-5 times H2O until tender. It is as well as then tempered alongside either garlic as well as ruby-red chillies or ruby-red chilli pulverization or mustard, curry leaves, asofoetida as well as ruby-red chillies or chilli powder. Believe me when I nation that it is delicious as well as a truthful comfort food. It tin last eaten alongside rice every bit a side or every bit is similar a soup alongside about bread. This makes for a filling weeknight dinner; both to ready as well as to eat!
Servings: 2-3
Ingredients:
Dry Mung beans: 1 cup
Water: four cups to soak as well as 3 cuks to cook.
Salt: to taste
For tempering:
Coconut oil: 1/2 tsp ( whatever cooking stone oil may last used).
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Asofoetida powder: a pinch ( if using solution: 3-4 drops)
Red chilli powder: 1/4 tsp ( tin last adjusted every bit per private spice level).
Method:
Soak the dry out mung beans inward H2O for 4-5 hours or overnight. Drain the water, add together fresh H2O ( 3 cups) as well as ready inward the pressure level cooker on medium open fire until you lot listen 2-3 whistles. If you lot practise non choose a pressure level cooker, you lot tin ready it on the stove overstep on medium open fire until the beans reaches the desired tenderness. The mung beans should last well-cooked but non over cooked. Open the pressure level cooker alone later on all the pressure level has been released. Add tabular array salt as well as mix well.
Tempering:
Heat kokosnoot stone oil inward a frying pan/skillet on medium heat.Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together curry leaves as well as asofoetida powder. Turn off the open fire as well as add together chilli powder.
Add this mixture to the pot alongside the cooked mung beans. Mix well.
Serve hot every bit a side alongside rice of your selection or serve inward a bowl every bit a soup alongside about crackers!
Enjoy !
I am bringing this to Throwback Thursday#22, Fiesta Fri # 103 as well as Saucy Saturdays. Angie's Fiesta Friday is beingness co-hosted past times ii of the real talented blogger friends, Sonal @ simplyvegetarian777 as well as Petra @ Food Eat Love.
Cooking made easy:
I ordinarily excogitation my meals the previous solar daytime as well as lay the desired amount of dry out beans inward H2O either at nighttime earlier I become to bed or early on morning time earlier I larn out for work. But inward illustration you lot forget or all of a abrupt choose an urge to brand mung edible bean soup for dinner, exactly soak the mung beans inward hot H2O for an threescore minutes , keeping the pot shut as well as ready it inward the pressure level cooker.
This soup tin also last made inward a tiresome cooker.
Tip for salubrious living:
Taking a leafage from doc Martin Luther King's book, I am going to practise something altruistic as well as percentage alongside you lot about myths regarding the influenza that is prevalent during the winter.These are non my views.This was shared past times Christian Pickard from Bankers Healthcare Group.
I would even therefore emphasize that the best way to move along mutual frigidity as well as influenza at bay is past times observing expert mitt hygiene! Wash your hands every time you impact something that you lot shout out upward is unclean. When you are exterior practise non impact your eyes, olfactory organ or mouth. Imagine that you lot are wearing a face-mask!
Food for thought:
Life's most persistent as well as urgent query is " What are you lot doing for others??" doc Martin Luther King