Aviksha's Kitchen

Tomato soup is very easy to prepare at home. My husband's  favorite  and healthy soup. I personal never used to like tomato soup but once I prepared it at home as we both had sore throat and a cup of it made us feel much  relieved.  Therefore, very best soup to be consumed during cold and sore throat as this soup has lots of pepper in it. My mother started making this at home with bread crumbs and I got the recipe from her. My husband likes it with garlic bread. It is a very easy, tasty and healthy soup. Tastier than those of restaurants and takes hardly 15 minutes. Do try it and let me know :) NOTE :  Can use 1 tbsp black pepper powder instead of pepper balls.  Can add any other vegetables along with tomato, potatoes and onions like carrots. Preparation Time : 5 Minutes Cooking Time : 10 Minutes Total Taken : 15 Minutes Yield : 3-4 servings Tomato Soup Ingredients: To be grinded  : Tomatoes 2 nos Onio...

Kokam is a dark red colored fruit. Kokum Kadhi / Curry is a Goan / Konkan drink. It is good for digestion and acts as a cooler. Can have it lukewarm or chilled as a drink or along with plain rice. This is a curry prepared with no boiling process involved. Kokum Kadhi is very tangy and easy to make. Some people temper this curry with red chilly, mustard seeds.cumin seeds and curry leaves. This is made out of coconut milk and garlic cloves. Thus, this curry is little sour and spicy and can consumed as an appetizing drink. It gives a soothing effect by having it on hot summer. NOTE :  Number of chilies depend on how spicy they are. I am using 5 as mine are not very spicy. Can serve the kokum kadhi immediately or can keep it in a fridge and then serve cold. Remember, leftover kokum kadhi  should be refigerated as coconut milk can get spoiled in the hot weather. Can add a pinch of asafoetida also. Preparation Time : 30 Minutes Cooking Time : 5 Minutes...

This recipe is my favorite. Simple, healthy and very tasty. Clears the throat completely thus very good for cold and sore throat. NOTE : Can use any vegetables like carrot, cabbage, beans, mushroom etc if needed. Adding egg is optional. Can add finely chopped green chilies but I am using pepper powder instead as it is very good for throat and cold. Time Taken : 15 Minutes Yield : 3 servings Chicken Clear Soup / Chicken Soup Ingredients:   Coriander Leaves little finely chopped Garlic / Losun 4-5 finely chopped or smashed Ginger / Adarak 1 inch finely chopped or smashed black pepper  powder / Kali Mirch 2 tbsp Soya Sauce 1 tbsp Others: Chicken 50-100 gms Salt as needed Oil 1-2 tbsp Corn Flour 2 tbsp Method : Chop the chicken into small pieces and boil it in a cooker adding 3 cup water and little salt. Wait for 2-3 whistles. Switch off the stove and open when it cools. This forms Chicken stock.     Take a pan, add o...

This is a very famous Konkani dish high in proteins and thus very healthy. Very simple, tasty and easy recipe.  Kulithu means horse gram in Konkani and thus the name Kultha Kadhi/Soup. Goes well with plain rice. In Villages, the cattle's are fed with cooked horse gram and the water used to cook is used by the people as a soup. They also make a thick syrup of this by boiling for hours and store it. And later use it whenever needed. Some people call it as kultha saar-upkari which means gravy and a dry item of horse gram. They boil the horse gram in a water and then they separate the water and horsegram. The water separated will be seasoned with garlic and chilies and will be called saaru and the separated horse gram will be seasoned with garlic and chilly and this is called upkari. I prefer not to separate and have it together.  NOTE :   Can use yellow or old cucumber along with this. Can separate water and horse gram if need...

This is a Konkani dish, which is very easy,tasty and simple. It is my favorite dish. You can have it as a drink, Soup or with rice. Generally,  either garlic or mustard seasoning for this. But I use both so as to get the combined flavor and i bet even you will love it. It tasted extra-ordinary if buttermilk is sour.  It is so good that once you start to drink you can never stop until it gets over. My kadhi is bit different from others. NOTE : Can use either curd or buttermilk. Number of green chilies depend upon how spicy they are. I am using 4 as mine are not that spicy. Good for health. If you are using curd then, add 2 cups / glass of water to 1 cup / glass of curd. This will make buttermilk.                               Buttermilk = 1 cup curd + 2 cup water Time Taken : 10 Minutes Yield : 3-4 servings Takka Kadhi / Buttermilk Gravy / Buttermilk Soup / Dahi Kadhi / Yo...

This recipe is my favorite. I prefer this soup among all the other soups. Simple, healthy and very tasty. Clears the throat completely thus very good for cold. NOTE : Can use any vegetables like carrot, cabbage, beans, mushroom etc. Adding chicken and egg is optional. Can have it without adding fried noodles. But becomes cruncy and nice on adding fried noodles.  Number of green chilies depend on how spicy they are. I am using 12 as mine are not very spicy Step 2 and 3 is optional. Time Taken : 30 Minutes Yield : 3-4 servings Chicken Manchow Soup Ingredients:   Green Chillies 5 nos  finely chopped Carrot 1/2 finely chopped Cabbage little finely chopped Ginger / Adarak 1 inch  finely chopped Garlic / Lasun 3 Cloves  finely chopped Egg Beated 1 Coriander Leaves little finely chopped black pepper  powder / Kali Mirch 1 tbsp Soya Sauce 1 tbsp Others: Chicken 50-100 gms Salt as needed Oil 1-2 tbsp Corn Flo...