Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup

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Heat ghee in a small saucepan and once melted, add pepper powder and fry for a few seconds. Tip this into the hot simmering soup and mix well. Garnish with chopped cilantro or green onions. Serve hot, light and soothing lauki or bottle gourd soup with toasted bread and maybe a salad on the side.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have light and healthy lauki/bottle gourd soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup:
  1. Get 2 cups peeled and chopped lauki/bottle gourd
  2. Make ready 1⁄4 cup chopped red onions
  3. Prepare 1 -inch piece ginger cut into 2 to 3 pieces
  4. Take 2 green chillies/jalapenos
  5. Get 3 cloves
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp butter/oil
  7. Take 1 vegetable seasoning cube (I have used Maggi brand); optional
  8. Take To taste Salt
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp ghee or butter for seasoning
  10. Prepare To taste Black Pepper powder
  11. Take as needed Chopped cilantro or coriander leaves and/or green onions for garnishing

Bottle Gourd Soup is a thick, rich, and nutritious bottle gourd soup. It is an excellent soup as it has a lot of health benefits. Serve it as a brunch or a light dinner. This soup is a great way of including lauki in meals.

Steps to make Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup:
  1. In a pressure pot, heat butter or oil and once hot, add onions, ginger, cloves, green chilies and chopped bottle gourd and sauté on medium high for 2 to 3 minutes.
  2. Add water to cover the vegetables and cook on high pressure for one whistle.
  3. Once the pressure has dropped, drain the cooked vegetables and remove the cloves, ginger pieces and green chilli pieces (this is optional).
  4. Blend the drained vegetables to a fine paste and transfer to a saucepan along with the strained broth.
  5. Add salt to taste along with a single crushed cube of seasoning (optional). - Mix well, bring to a boil and reduce heat. - Simmer for about 5 to 7 minutes.
  6. Meanwhile, prepare the seasoning. Heat ghee in a small saucepan and once melted, add pepper powder and fry for a few seconds. - Tip this into the hot simmering soup and mix well. Garnish with chopped cilantro or green onions. - Serve hot, light and soothing lauki or bottle gourd soup with toasted bread and maybe a salad on the side. Enjoy!! #Soup
  7. Use garlic if you like the flavor; it will give a different flavor dimension to the soup. - The same recipe can be used to make cabbage, carrot, spinach, pumpkin, squash, zucchini soup etc. - While choosing bottle gourd, choose the small and tender varieties. #Wintersoup.

Serve it as a brunch or a light dinner. This soup is a great way of including lauki in meals. Gourd vegetables, especially Lauki (also known as Dudhi, Bottle gourd and White gourd) is amongst the healthiest vegetable. High fibre and water content makes lauki an ideal vegetable for detox and weight loss diets. They have always been considered as a winter dish.

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