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The ultimate vitamin C soup recipe

Looking for recipes to boost your body's immunity? This vitamin C soup can help build your body's response in the most natural way! It holds around 903 mg of vitamin C with its rich ingredients like broccoli, bottlegourd, and guava. 1 serving = 226 mg of Vitamin C.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: soup recipes, vegetable soup recipe, vitamin C recipe
Servings: 4
Calories: 34kcal

Equipment

  • Pressure cooker
  • Pan

Ingredients

For soup

  • 1 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 tsp Jeera
  • 3 cloves Garlic chopped
  • 1 cup Onions chopped
  • 1.5 cups Tomatoes roughly chopped
  • 1 tsp Red chilli powder as per taste
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 2 cups Bottle gourd peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1.5 cups Broccoli roughly chopped
  • 1 fruit Guava peeled and chopped (if you don't like eating it's seeds you can remove them)
  • 2 tsps Black pepper powder as per taste
  • Salt as per taste
  • 4+ tbsps Lime juice as per taste

For garnish

  • 1/2 cup Broccoli finely chopped into small florets
  • 4 cloves Garlic finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp Olive oil

Instructions

For the soup

  • Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pressure cooker or a pot and then add 1 tsp jeera or cumin seeds into it.
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  • After it splutters, add 1 cup onions and saute till lightly brown
  • Then add 1.5 cups of tomatoes and mix
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  • Add 1 tsp red chilli powder, 1 tsp turmeric powder and salt to taste. Saute well for a minute. Skip this step if you don't like spices although turmeric powder too is know to have medicinal properties.
  • Then add 2 cups of chopped bottle gourd, 1 cup of chopped broccoli and 1 cup of chopped guava into the cooker or pot. Add more guava if you've skipped the spices.
  • Also add 2.5 cups of water and mix well
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  • Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistles.
  • Transfer into a mixie and grind till it becomes smooth.
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  • Transfer it back into the cooker and add 3 tsps of black pepper powder and mix.

For the garnish

  • Heat 1 tbsp in a pan
  • Add 1/2 cup of broccoli with the chopped garlic into the pan and saute till lightly roasted.
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  • Sprinkle some salt
  • Take the soup in a bowl. Add the garnish, some fresh lime juice and enjoy your dish!

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Notes

  • To enhance the taste you can add cheese and coriander leaves to this recipe.
  • To make it a whole meal you can add some grains too like barley or broken-wheat. This will make it fibre-rich and healthier!
  • You can skip the spices if it doesn't suit you. The soup is tasty even without it.
  • To make it spicier you can add more chillies according to your taste.
  • This soup stays fine when refrigerated upto 3 days.