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Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, light and healthy lauki/bottle gourd soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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. Serve hot, light and soothing lauki or bottle gourd soup with toasted bread on the side. Heat ghee in a small saucepan and once melted, add pepper powder and fry for a few seconds.

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

The ingredients needed to make Light and Healthy Lauki/Bottle Gourd Soup:

1. Get 2 cups peeled and chopped lauki/bottle gourd
2. Take ¹⁄₄ cup chopped red onions
3. Take 1 -inch piece ginger cut into 2 to 3 pieces
4. Make ready 2 green chillies/jalapenos
5. Prepare 3 cloves
6. Get 2 tbsp butter/oil
7. Take 1 vegetable seasoning cube (I have used Maggi brand); optional
8. Take To taste Salt
9. Take 1 tbsp ghee or butter for seasoning
10. Prepare To taste Black Pepper powder
11. Make ready 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.

Instructions 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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