Easy Vegetarian Laksa Soup

I was eyeing on this so long and I knew it that this will be going to become my favorite soup and it is now. It has simple ingredients but bold flavors. You don't have to go to the trouble to make laksa paste from scratch. Just take your favorite Thai red curry, add broth, coconut milk, empty fridge with whatever vegetables you have and voila, Laska soup is ready to serve. It's perfect for fall evening to have this bowl of soup for dinner but you can have it for lunch also. This soup belongs to Singapore, so if you are on that side of the world, you are lucky but for people like us we have to make it at home. You can use any toppings, bean sprouts, lettuce, cabbage. If you can find vegan fish sauce, add it, it will give nice zest.



Ingredients : 

6 tbsp Red curry paste
2 cups vegetable broth
1 tbsp oil
1 cup light coconut milk
1 tsp curry powder
salt as per taste
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp Sambal Olek
1/2 cup tofu chopped in small cubes
1/4 cup red cabbage
1/4 cup broccoli
6-7 white mushroom chopped
3 cloves of garlic chopped finely
1 and a half cup of rice noodles boiled
1 A large egg boiled and cut in half
1/4 lemon wedge
Cilantro leaves
Vegan Fish sauce -optional for serving on top

Method : 

In a saucepan, on low heat, add oil and red curry paste and garlic.

Stir well and cook the paste for 10 minutes until paste changed the color.

Add 1/4 cup broth and dissolve curry paste.

Add remaining stock, coconut milk, curry powder, salt, sugar, sambal oelek, all the vegetables.

Stire and bring to a boil, lower the heat and cover and cook for 10 minutes.

On the side, boil the noodles and egg and keep it aside.


In a serving bowl, first, have half of the noodles, pour the broth mixture on it and top it with lettuce, egg, cilantro, and lime wedge and serve immediately.



If you have vegan fish sauce, sprinkle it.

Believe me, it will be your house's favorite noodle soup.

Hibiscus Iced Tea

Do you love the Hibiscus flower? If you are in a warm climate then you can see year-round but here it's only in summer so when you see the leaves start to come, you can feel the spring is in the air and when comes spring, then comes summer. And in hot summer days what better than iced tea to cool down. When you make it with hibiscus flowers, it's good for your body also.

This tea is good to prevent hypertension, lower Blood pressure, reduce blood sugar levels, keep your liver healthy, for girls,  it helps with menstrual cramps, help with depression, aid digestion and help with weight management. It's rich in Vitamin C, contains minerals such as flavonoids and has laxative properties.

It's not good for pregnant or nursing moms and if you already have low BP, don't try this. 

Here you can find it in the farmers market otherwise there is always Amazon.

Ingredients : 

1/2 cup  Dried Hibiscus Petals

8 cups of water

1/4 cup Honey or as per your taste

As per taste Lime juice, Ice cubes and few mint strings (optional)

Method

Take a pan and add water, add few dried Hibiscus petals in it. It will change color in a few seconds. 

Once the water starts boiling, switch off the gas and let hibiscus do its work. You can add basil leaves, mint leaves, lemongrass, ginger at this point. 

Let the tea steep for 15-20 minutes. 

Mix it Honey and Lime juice till its nicely mixed. 

You have it either warm or ice cold. If you are serving a crowd, have extra honey and lime juice on the side so people can adjust it as per their taste. 

Orange and Peach Creamsicle Shake

Every day is 90+ temperature so for that time you don't like something hot and spicy to eat or drink. So what do you do when kids want some healthy snack? Well make something cool so its good for them too and still they love it. So made this orange creamsicle shake, just orange juice, frozen banana , ice cream and they loved it. You can put whip cream on top or same vanilla ice cream what ever you like or kids like and enjoy it on hot sunny day.

Skip the ice cream and you can have it Vegan milk shake with almond, hemp, cashew or soya milk.


Ingredients : 


1 Frozen Ripe Banana cut in chunks
2 tsp. Vanilla essence
1/2 cup each orange and Peach juice (you can either of it)
2 big scoops of Vanilla ice cream, 1 scoop extra to put it on top
2 tsp. Orange Zest - Optional

Method:


Put everything in blender and mix it till nice and frothy.

Pour it in Tall glass and put one scope of ice cream or whip cream on top and enjoy it.

Mango Clementine Smoothie Bowl

So I also jump into current trend of making smoothie bowls. I love to make smoothies anyway so why not to eat it instead of drink it. So here I have my most favorite way of drinking smoothie is with mango puree. For extra thickness and goodness ,  I have added oats in it too and make this delicious bowl. I had it for lunch and I was full, didn’t get my vegetables thru this but I was happy ,this is what I needed for that day so. You can make any combination of smoothie you can make, add any toppings which you like and voila perfect bowl of smoothie is ready. Just add one frozen ingredient to make it creamy. 

Ingredients :

½ cup Canned or fresh mango pulp

1 frozen banana, thawed little bit

4 tbsp. Old fashioned oats

¼ cup clementine juice

1 cup unsweetened Almond Milk or your choice of milk

¼ cup Greek plain yogurt

For toppings :  Ripe banana, few clementine,  coconut powder, chia seeds

Method:

In a blender add mango pulp, cut pieces of banana, oats, juice, milk and yogurt.

Make a smooth puree.

Take it out in a glass or just drink it or take it out a bowl and add your favorite toppings and enjoy.

I had it with banana, clementine, coconut powder and chia seeds.

Healthy eating / drinking.

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Marigold Flower Juice - UC recipe

You know that my husband is suffering from #UC , so his life and my menu changed a lot in this last few months, cooking separate for him, taking care of his special dietary needs and always looking for something which gives him a bit of relief. So he found out that marigold flowers juice is good for him, was looking for that flowers in winter but was told that they are summer flowers and as soon as the weather warm up I saw it on the streets so he get that and planted it . It already has some small flowers , waited few days and it bloom, pluck it , washed it and made a juice out of it. You dont have to strain it , just grind it super fined in blender and drink it. Here is the link which says it good for #UC patients. Your needs might be different so drink it at your risk.

http://www.planetayurveda.com/ayurvedic-medicines-ulcerative-colitis.htm

Ingredients :

4 Yellow Marigold Flowers

1 cup of water

Method:

Plucked the Marigold flowers and put them in lots of water so any sand or dirt goes away.

Take only yellow flower part, not the green part.

Add water in blender and flowers.

Grind it till it mix it nicely in water. 

Pour it in glass and Drink it immediately.

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Coconut Water Lemonade

I love coconut water, mint and lemonade, what happens if you combine all 3 in one big pitcher? Its become delicious coconut water lemonade. Instead of coconut water you can use cream of coconut too but its very thick not lemonde consistency, so I use water only. I got idea from here.


Ingredients :

1 bottle 12 oz. of coconut water (your favorite, fresh would be better)
2 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Sugar as needed
Sliced lemon, few leaves of mint for garnish
Ice cubes

Method:

Put everything in big pitcher and serve it in two glasses. You can make more because this thing wont last long.

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Coffee Coolata

I just tasted coffee coolatta from Dunkin Donuts and fell in love with it but it cost money and it was more ice than coffee so when I can make it at home as per my taste and little healthy why not to make it at home?. So made it and enjoy it too. Its a perfect drink to beat the heat and during outdoor BBQ parties too. You can make ahead coffee and put it in fridge and when its time to feed, make it and put it in big pitcher so everyone can enjoy it.

Ingredients : 

1 cup of strong coffee or as per your liking
1 cup of light cream
3-5 tbsp of sugar or as per taste
2 tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tbsp. Nutella
2 cups of ice

Method : 

Make coffee as per your liking, add sugar in it while it is hot. When it comes to room temperature, add vanilla extract, don't add this while its hot. Then add nutella and mix it.
When its cold put it in fridge.
Take it out , in a blender add coffee, chocolate syrup, light cream and mix it, then add ice and mix it again so it become thick. You can skip ice but then its just simple cold coffee. Churn it till its nice and smooth.
Take it out in glass, add some whipped cream and drizzle some chocolate syrup and enjoy it.

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Strawberry Sparkling Water | Strawberry Soda

Now a days everyone like flavor water, fill up the pitcher with mint, cucumber , orange and lime wedges and drink it. Personally I don't like that because it becomes tart and Water does not smell fresh. Instead you can keep pulp ready and whenever you want it , you can add carbonated water in it and drink it or just add lime juice and make a lemonade out of it.  On Thanksgiving sale, we got soda maker, since then making carbonated water / club soda is very easy and fun. Kids love that and we can experiment with all kinds of flavors too. Its like making your own soda flavors. So this is kind of strawberry soda too. I make puree of strawberries with sugar and make a fine puree and sieve it so it has only pulp and not  seeds. You can lime juice and make strawberry lemonade or add sparkling water and make soda. So that's the recipe. You can adjust sugar as per the tartness of the strawberries.

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Mint Coconut Water

This time for SS series is Drinks and I just love coconut water , so I click this. Make ice cubes of coconut water and mint in it, when its hard, take it out in glass, pour regular coconut water in glass on the rocks. The mint flavor and coconut is out of this world. Wait till all the coconut water melts, its heaven.

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Wheatgrass Juice #ulcerativecolitisrecipe

As I told you before my husband’s condition.  He do research and look for anything which helps him to reduce his condition, he found that wheatgrass juice is best so we plant wheat and when its grows and had “grass” we make juice out of it and he can use it. So this is just a usual wheat grass juice . But the taste of wheat grass is not good, so I try adding mint, tulsi, pom seeds, ginger. Those ingredients he can take it and makes the juice taste better too. He is suffering but at least his medicine has to taste good.   #ulcerativecolitisrecipe

First we put soft wheat in just as it is to grow, but in few days it has fungus and stat smelling bad, so put that in soil and no smell and start giving nice  green grass.


On the other note, if you are a stay at home mom , need to earn extra money and have capability to cook for someone or as per order, contact Jasmaggu@gmail.com. her website is AuthenFOOD | Authentic home cooked food at your doorstep!, i got her offer and received calls too for cooking but right now its not good for me because of my hectic schedule but if you are contact her. If this thing happen to me earlier before I started working, would be so much fun.

Ingredients :

To  grow wheat grass you need

One cup of wheat

Method:

You need to soak the wheat overnight and then dry it and put it in deep dish which you want to grow it.

Put soaked wheat on down and spray water mix with baking soda in it and cover it with paper towel.
In a cup of water, just add one tsp of baking soda. 

Do this few times a day if you see that paper is dry.

In few days it will sprout and grass will come out.

For us it took 10 days to grow.

To make juice, cut the top of part of it , don’t throw it yet, it will grow again and you can use it again.

Take that cut wheatgrass, add some water and put it grinder and make fine puree. It upto you how pure juice you want , the way you put water that much juice will come out. 

Sieve it with very fine holes so you can only get juice.

Discard the fiber.

this one has mint and tulsi in it. 

I have added pom seeds in it. 

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