Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Apple and Red Cabbage Soup


My Dear fellow blogger friends have started to send in their entries to my event. I'm happy to see new and innovative dishes from my friends. Thanks to the ones who have sent me the entries and for my other friends, please start posting the dishes for the event.

Now, to my recipe..today also, I've one unique combo soup to share with you. I should definitely thank Sara for accepting my late entries for the MEC - Soups event. I know, I have been posting lot of soup varieties for last few days...I think, I should stop boring you guys with soups...I'm sure, my next post won't be a soup..let me see if I can post something interesting..have to check my drafts...Ok, now back to my apple & red cabbage soup, my hubby and I loved the taste and color of the soup. Adding cinnamon and cloves gave a nice flavour too...



Ingredients:

1. Apple - 1/2 Cup (Finely chopped)
2. Red Cabbage - 1/4 Cup (Finely chopped)
3. Onion - 1/4 Cup (Finely chopped)
4. Clove - 2
5. Cinnamon Stick - 1
6. Pepper - 1 tsp
7. Butter - 1 tsp
8. Salt - Needed qty

Procedure:

1. In a microwave safe bowl, take butter. Add onion and apple. (Reserve some apple pieces for garnishing)
2. Keep on microwave high for 2 minutes. Take out, mix once and keep again for another 1 minute.
3. Then add red cabbage, 1 cup water, cloves and cinnamon stick.
4. Cook on high for 4 minutes.
5. Now, remove the cloves and cinnamon stick. Allow the contents to cool.
6. Process in the blender till smooth.
7. Serve hot seasoned with pepper and apple pieces.

Serves : 1

This participates in "Sara's MEC - Soups", an event started by Srivalli.



43 comments:

Meena said...

Lovely, lovely color to this soup!

Aparna said...

nithu, gud to hear the event & nice combo

Cool Lassi(e) said...

Hey,
Are dry fruits allowed for this event?
The soup looks good by the way. Nice Apple garnish on the top!

Unknown said...

oh wow!!love the soup color and unique soup looks so so yummy......

Swathi said...

Nithu,

soup is really good. nice color, sure apple added flavor to it.

Raks said...

Looks lovely! And pretty presentation too Nithu!

Sushma Mallya said...

Thats one unique combo,getting to know lot of new soups through your lovely blog nithu,thanks for sharing,looks wonderful

Shama Nagarajan said...

yummy soup..nice one

Rekha shoban said...

lovely presentation and nice colour!

kitchen queen said...

a healthy appetising and a refreshing soup.

Nivedita Thadani said...

Hi Nithu,
Unique combination! Loved the presentation.

Anu said...

Lovely color... Soup looks yummy...

Fathima said...

What a colorful soup!! Healthy too..

Ms.Chitchat said...

Loved the color of the soup. Interesting combo and thanks for bringing to light such unique tasty combos.

Chitchat

Priya Suresh said...

Such a beautiful soup, lovely presentation Nithu..

Suma said...

This is something new!! Looks good too!

TREAT AND TRICK said...

Healthy and lovely color soup, great presentation, dear...

Veggie Hut said...

looks gr8..the colour is so unique..lovely

subhashini said...

Oye Nithu
What are you doing these?? How come the dish can have so fantastic colour.

Rachana said...

A very fruity and a colourful bowl of Soup!!!

Hayley said...

Lovely flavoured soup..

Deepa G Joshi said...

lovely combo and I am in love with the color of the soup..

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Pavithra Srihari said...

Very different colour to the soup .. Loved the way u have decorated dear

Tina said...

Nice presentation dear....Pretty and lovely soup...

BeenaShylesh said...

loves the colour.......and beautiful presentation.....

Rekha said...

so unuusual, never heard of this soup.

Vrinda said...

Cute presentation Dear...

Neetz said...

veg+fruit soup!!! wow!!

Gita Jaishankar said...

Nice and tasty combo Nithu...love the color of this soup...I too have some fruit recipes, will send them to your event :)

Jyoti V said...

Hmm i can imagine how good it must be...apple and cinnamon combo...
wow!

Pavithra Elangovan said...

oh wow thats really unusual combo..looks terrific..wish to try it.

Hamaree Rasoi said...

Very unique coloured soup . The garnishing looks lovely..

Deepa

Vineetha Sush said...

yummy combo and lovely presentation..

Padma said...

Wow such a cute presentation... soup looks very colorful and tempting.

Simplyfood said...

Amazing colour and nice combination of flavours.

PS said...

a unique combo.. and wow look at the color..

Home Cooked Oriya Food said...

lovely color of the soup!

Parita said...

What a lovely presentation!

deepti said...

Dear Nithu
Thanks 4 dropping in...n 4 ur kind words......
Nice 2 visit ur Wonderful space here....Awesome recipes & amazing presentations ...Keep up with the good work...!!!!!
Adding u 2 my blogroll
cheers
deepti

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Nithu, this looks very gorgeous... Lovely color and a super duper helathy soup recipe!!! The pic is inviting!!!

LK said...

Yeah Nithu...I was beginning to wonder if you were on a special liquid diet :D
You know, I think that these are great ideas that should be marketed as baby food!

Unknown said...

Hi Nithu,
Thanks for visiting our blog..You have an interesting blog here..love the color of this soup..nice presentation!

Yasmeen said...

I have made red cabbage soup before,yours sounds so much better with sweet apples.Thanks for the creative entry :D