Soupe de Lentilles/French Vegan Lentils Soup

Soup is quite a comforting meal for me and most of our dinner calls for soups and salads. Soup will definitely please your hungry tummies easily. I just love to dish out some quick soups with loads of vegetables and legumes. One of our family favourite is always French lentils soup. Usually prepared with le Puy lentils, these gluten free and vegan soup will definitely makes your tummy happy. Definitely a satisfying bowl of this soup  is totally hearty and healthy. Rich in protein, this vegan bowl of soup is quite a filling soup if you are in diet. Extremely easy, this soup can be prepared even in advance if you feel lazy to cook after your hectic day. Indian pressure cooker works awesome to dish out this soup. However preparing this soup in a large pot also works prefectly if you want to make this soup in traditional way.

Vegan Tomato Moongdal Soup/Tomato Dal Soup

Weather went too down here, obviously we want to finish our dinner simply with a bowl of soup than making any other dishes for our meal.  If you are looking for a healthy, super filling and nutritious soup,dont forget to check this fantastic gluten free tomato soup. Though i used green moong aka whole moongdal for making this fantastic soup, you can still prepare this soup with masoor dal or split moongdal or else with a mix of both to prepare this soup.Since my hubby grabbed a bag of juicy tomatoes from farmer's market, i couldnt stop myself to add some tomatoes to this nutritious soup.

Vegan Mixed Vegetables & Kidney Beans Quinoa Soup

Quinoa, this incredible tiny grains are our family favourite. Cooked either as salad, any South Indian dishes, sweets or else simply cooked as much as rice to serve along with a stew, quinoa makes an excellent meal. Quinoa is definitely a versatile grain, you can cook anything with. I have been cooking for a while with this gluten free grains, and these grains are seriously easy to cook with. Even my kids love this grains, needless to say Quinoa is becoming our most favourite grain after oats and rice.

Broccolisoppa/ Swedish Broccoli Soup

Swedish broccoli soup aka Broccolisoppa is a simple tasty greenish soup which makes an excellent dinner. Or else a super filling lunch as well. Easy to make this Broccoli soup calls for easy cooking and you can also served this fantastic healthy soup as an attractive starter for a party. No sauteeing is needed, obviously this soup calls for easy cooking method. Prepared with vegetable stock or chicken stock, this easy breezy broccoli soup can be prepared easily in a pot without using pressure cooking. You can make this soup with more stalk than the green broccoli heads if you want your broccoli soup slight green in colour. This broccoli soup is served along with cheese tuiles however i skipped it as i ran out of the cheese.

Tomato Couscous Soup

Couscous is an excellent meal when served along with meat and vegetables.Though this dish is quite famous here because of North African countries, couscous have their own place in French cuisine. Some of the popular French chefs have already tried to replicate this incredible dish in so many creative dishes. However nothing can beat the traditionally prepared North African style couscous. I came to know about this semolina through my brother in law who makes excellent Moroccan couscous. Then i tried my hands in making this fantastic dish, which is quite a royal food for us. Couscous is usually served with meats and a tomato based aromatic stew with loads of vegetables like carrot, zucchini, celery, turnips and cooked chickpeas.

Vegan Green Peas & Wheat Rava Soup

If you are dieting or else you want to keep urself fit, dont forget to add more soups and salads in your daily meal. I love to have a bowl of soup everyday either for my lunch or for my dinner as its quite easy to dish out soups. However a bowl of soup is quite enough to fill a hungry tummy. Though i always try to add potatoes in my most of soup recipes, this time i skipped potatoes and went with wheat rava. Yes i replaced the humble potatoes with wheat rava, adding wheat rava to your soup will make it more interesting and healthier as well. Not to forget that addition of wheat rava will definitely helps a lot for thickening the soup as well.

Carrot,Cumin and Ginger Detox Soup

Carrot is an excellent vegetable and they are a good source of the antioxidant Vitamin A as well dietary fiber. If you are planning to make a detox diet, give a try to this flavourful and absolutely delicious detox soup with carotene rich carrots.Ginger acts as a cleansing agent in the body while cumin have curative properties. Prefect for lunch or for a mid afternoon snack while dieting, this soup will definitely fill your hungry tummy. This three ingredients works awesome together to cleanse your body as well as satisfy your tastebuds. Simple to make, this detox soup goes for easily available ingredients.

Tofu Tomato Clear Soup

Soup plays an important role in our daily menu, honestly i can have my bowl of soup at anytime of the day. Yep am a sucker of warm soup, earlier am a person who dislikes the word 'soup', now am just opposite to it. Coz of the chilled evening weather here, i dont have any mood to cook our dinner obviously my mind goes towards the soup, which are quite easier for me than rolling a roti and finding a side dish to it. Coming to this clear soup, i just throwed some chopped tomatoes,chopped tofu cubes in a vegetable broth which i spiced up with green chillies and pepper powder, voila your soup is ready,this is enough to make this incredible warm bowl of clear soup.

An easy breezy soup, gets ready just within few minutes, the cooking time takes hardly less than 15minutes and the soup will be ready to enjoy. I love my soup with dried herbs and hence i used dried basil leaves in this soup, you can replace them very well with freshly chopped any herbs. With a simple sandwich and a bowl of  this soup is very much enough to have a satisfying dinner. If you dont like tofu, you can replace it very well with cubed potatoes, mix and match the vegetables as you desire, am sure this soup will become your favourite.

Carrot Sweet Potato Soup

A bowl of warm soup is quite enough for me when the weather outside is too chilled or nasty. Obviously i do varieties of soup, one of my recent favourite is this gorgeous looking bright and delicious carrot,sweet potato soup. Sweet potatoes are in peek season here and i couldnt stop myself to buy them from the nearby farmer's market. After making a couple of dishes with them i finally finished them by adding some sweet potato chunks in my usual carrot soup. This soup turned out silky,filling,satisfying,mildly sweet and definitely a healthy soup to enjoy with some sides for a dinner.

This week am running the famous blogging marathon for three days, the theme of this week's blogging marathon is Soups or Salads with sides. I served this delicious soup with Fusion Quesadillas for our lunch few days back. Both this soup and quesadillas were very much filling and everyone at home enjoyed these both dishes thoroughly.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#38 . 

Sweet Corn Soup

I hardly check and cook from cookbooks eventhough i have a small collection at home. Honestly i never bought till now a cookbook, every cookbook am having at home are from either a gift from family or from many giveaways i won through these virtual world, thanks to this immense world and my fellow blogger buddies whoever always kind enough toward me. When you have a chance to cook from a cookbook and blog about it,who will say no to this wonderful opportunity,obviously i was really excited and went through the cookbooks for Srivalli's Cooking From Cookbook Challenge.

I chosed this easy breezy corn soup from the famous Indian chef Tarladalal's cookbook and the name of the cook book is Cooking under 10minutes. So this sweet corn soup goes for an easy breezy preparation, just a cup grated sweet corn with usual ingredients make this delicious soup. No onion or garlic or any other veggies is needed to make this quick corn soup. A delicious and nutritious soup to enjoy thoroughly when the weather is down outside, i enjoyed this quick corn soup thoroughly for my yesterday dinner.