Chinese soups are a meal in themselves. They have the carbohydrates in the form of noodles. The proteins come from the chicken or meat shreds. The fiber and vitamins come from the different vegetables. To top it all if you don't use the corn flour to thicken it you will have a tummy filling treat with almost no calories. A close cousin of Chinese Cuisine would be the Tibetan food served in Leh, Ladhak. On a visit to Spituk about six years ago I tasted the soup meal most popular there, called the Thukpa. Essentially there is not much of a difference between true Chinese and Tibetan food in soups.   read more

One of the most difficult things to get children to do is eat nutritiously. So if you can push in two good things where one would go it has to be a major time saver. Getting them to eat breakfast before going to school is a major task for the parent. That is where the Egg Flip comes in very handy. The milk goes in along with an egg and the child doesn't have to chew a bite. A much faster way of getting the right stuff down the gullet before the bus comes to take him away to school.So what do you do if the child hates the smell of egg in milk? You disguise it. If your child has a regular milk additive   read more

The chicken version was dealt with in the last post. however if you are a vegetarian like my mother you may prefer this version. The basic Vegetable Soup is given in my previous post. We will use that here as the base for the clear soup. So you can take a quick look at the recipe and get back here.Also the basic wonton batter is available in the Chicken Wonton Soup recipe here. So now let's just make the filling for the vegetable wonton. Here is a list of ingredients that you will need just for the wonton filling.2 spoons of finely chopped carrots2 spoons of finely chopped cabbage2 spoons of boiled   read more

In the last post I gave the recipe for the basic Clear Chicken Soup. The reason I bring it up here is because this is merely a building up on that basic soup. So you can refer to that post to see how to make the basic chicken stock which is needed for this recipe as well. No point wasting time and effort writing about it again. Here we will deal only with the star of the soup The Wonton.Here's a list of ingredients that you will need.4 cups of chicken stock made from the recipe in the last post1/2 cup boneless meat from the chicken pieces the stock was made from.1/2 cup flour (maida)2   read more

Most of the chicken based soups that you would like to make call for chicken stock. A lot of the recipes also offer the alternative of using chicken cubes to the soup along with extra water as an easy substitute. However we are talking about moving away from the powders and dehydrated vegetables to the real and much healthier options. So here is the easiest way to make chicken stock.Here are the ingredients that you will need.250 gm of Chicken (you can use the neck, wings and more bony pieces)1 bay leaf4 cups of waterSalt   read more

The last post I wrote had the recipe for a "No vegetable soup". It was meant to start you off on a soup when you had nothing else healthy enough at home. However if you are serious about a healthy lifestyle and eating right, you will need more provisions. And yes vegetables make a big part of this. So here's my next healthy soup recipe. This one is a basic vegetable soup.Here are the ingredients you will need for this basic vegetable soup.1 potato1 carrot1 tomato3   read more

Soups are the weight watchers best friends. Made with nutritious vegetables it adds few calories to th emeal. Plus it gives you a feeling of being full. The stomach needs to get used to the lesser food calories that you will give it and soups are a great way to trick the stomach into believing that it is still being fed as usual.That soups are a desirable part of your meal has been established. However what if you don't have the time to boil vegetables or chicken to make the stock? Or you are not too sure how to make stock at all? Does that mean you need to eat tinned or packet powder soup? No   read more

Eating healthy is not just an option but a necessity. These days the kind of food we eat on the run is not healthy. It is fast food and junk food. It has little or no nutritional value. It only serves one purpose. To abate hunger pangs while we rush around our work day.The result? We pack on empty calories and our immune system grows weaker. We get fatter and are more prone to disease. We feel fatigued with the least demand on our physical self. No stamina and irritability are common symptoms.Actually it would be unfair to blame only bad eating habits on the general decline in our state of health.   read more