Cabbage soup

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Ingredients :

Chopped cabbage - 1 bowl
Green bell pepper - 2 tbsp (chopped finely)
Carrot - 1 small
Onion - 1 small
Tomato - 1 small
Garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Ginger paste - 1/2 tbsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds
Pepper powder
Salt

Method :

1. Chop the carrot, onion, tomato into small pieces.
2. Heat the oil in a pot and crackle the cumin seeds. Add chopped onion and saute it till gets tender.
3. Add ginger garlic paste in saute for seconds then add chopped tomato. Cook the tomato till it becomes soft.
4. Now add cabbage, carrot and bell pepper . Add pepper powder and salt as per your taste and mix it properly. Cover the pot with lid and allow the mixture to cook.
5. Once the mixture get half cooked add water as per requirement.
6. Allow the soup to boil. Once the vegetables in the soup get cooked properly turn off the gas.
7. Soup is ready to serve to your toddler.
8. You can serve the soup as it is or can serve with rice or noodles

Tomato Soup

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Ingredients :

Tomatoes - 2 nos.
Rice flour - 1/2 tbsp (Can use all purpose flour too)
Cummin seed - 1/4 tsp
Oil / Butter - 1/2 tbsp
Asafoetida (Hing) - a pinch
Pepper powder
Oregano (Optional)
Salt
Sugar

Method :

1. Boil the tomatoes till it gets tender.
2. Peel off the tomatoes skin and blend it in blender with rice flour.
3. Sieve the tomato puree to sepaate the seeds.
4. Heat the oil/butter in pan , crackle the cummin seed and add asafoetida .
5. Add tomato puree and add water as per your requirement of soup thickness.
6. Add salt, sugar, pepper powder as per your taste. 
7. Serve the tomato soup by seasoning with Oregano.

Sabudana kanji

Sabudana (Sago) kanji is easy to digest and considered as diarrhea food. This can also be given when baby is having normal health.


RECIPE :
Ingredient :
Soaked sabudana - 1/2 cup
Cumin seed / powder - 1/4 tbsp
Oil - 1/2 tbsp
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Salt


Method :

1. Heat oil in pa and crackle the cumin seeds/ powder.
2. Add water , sabudana and salt.
3. Cook the sabudana till it becomes transparent. 
4. Please add more water if required.

Tips :

1. You can also cook the sabudana in pressure cooker.

Rice kanji (Diarrhea food)

Rice kanji is easy to digest and hence considered as diarrhea food.


Ingredient :
Rice powder - 2 tbsp
Water - 1 cup
Salt


Method :

1. Heat water in pan and add rice flour in it. Keep stirring so lumps will be there.
2. Add salt and boil the mixture till kanji gets good consistency.
3. Serve lukewarm to the baby.

Tips :

1. Rice kanji can be made by using rice too. Please refer the link 'rice kanji by using rice'. 

Chicken soup

As well known to everyone chicken is rich source of proteins.

RECIPE :

Ingredients :
Chicken (With bone)- 1/2 kg
Onion - 1 medium (chopped)
Garlic paste - 1 tbl spoon
Ginger paste - 1/2 tbl spoon
Corriander powder - 2 tbl spoon
Grated coconut - 4 tbl spoon (Optional)
Oil - 2 tbl spoon
Cumin seed - 1/2 tbl spoon
Turmeric powder
Hot water - 400-500 ml (Approx 2 1/2 cup)

Method :
1. Wash chicken and keep it aside.
2. Blend grated coconut , coriander powder and ginger garlic paste into mixer. If  you are not adding coconut then no need blend it in the mixer.
3. Heat oil and temper cumin seed.
4. Add chopped onion and saute still it gets translucent. Add turmeric powder.
5. Add mixer from blender and saute for 1-2 minute.
6. Add washed chicken and saute for a minute.
7. Now add hot water and salt. Let chicken cook properly.
8. Once chicken pieces becomes tender turn off the gas.
9. Take out the chicken pieces from the soup.

You can serve this soup as it is with soft rice or first sieve the soup and serve it.

Spinach soup (Palak soup)

Spinach (Palak) is a rich source of iron. This palak soup is very nutritional and your toddler will definitely love this.

RECIPE

Ingredient :

Spinach leaves - 1 cup

Garlic - 2-3 medium cloves (Chopped)

Corn flour - 1 tablespoon.

Water - 3/4 cup

Milk - 1/4 cup

Roasted cumin powder - 1/2 table spoon

Butter - 1/2 table spoon

Salt to taste

Method :

1. Wash the spinach leave and drain.

2. Take spinach in pot . Add  water and garlic in it. Boil it still spinach leaves get soft.

3. Drain the mixture. Make a puree of spinach and Milk. Do not through the water, use it in soup.

4. Heat the pan. Add butter and temper the cumin seed powder.

5. Add spinach puree and drained water. Add corn flour and salt and boil over medium flame. Stir the mixture continuously.

6. Serve the soup with heavy creme or butter

Note :

1. You can change the amount of corn flour as per requirement of soup thickness.

2. If your kid like,  you can add pepper powder.