Sweet corn chaat and coriander lemon soup

We all love chaat don't we? But to make a delicious chaat with available vegetables with less masala and less oil is not an easy task, especially when all you want is a bowl of steaming hot soup!

But then yesterday I ended up chopping a lot of vegetables and added garlic and ginger to it, started to cook it in the pan, while cooking the aroma of just tender vegetables and sweet corn was something which Aru and I loved, so we have decided not to add water to the veggies, instead tried crushed pepper to the cooked vegetables. And we had it as a chaat!

Sweet corn chaat 

Ingredients 

1 sweet corn, cut and remove kernels 

1 carrot

1 zucchini 

7 to 8 french beans

1 onion

6 to 7 garlic pods

1/2 inch ginger peeled and crushed 

1 green chilli chopped 

Olive oil /peanut oil 2 tablespoon 

Method 

*Wash, peel and chop all vegetables into small cubes, remove corn kernels from the cob. Keep aside. 

*In a pan or pressure cooker, pour oil, saute ginger, garlic, green chilli and rest of the vegetables, add salt and cook in medium to low flame, it takes about 10 minutes for all the vegetables to cook, add crushed pepper and serve as a chaat in bowls. 

*You can add lemon extract if you like towards the end or just before serving. 

*I have added basil and oregano and few homegrown tomatoes. It's yum. Do try! 

Coriander lemon soup

For the soup which we were craving, we had coriander, ginger, lemon grass and just one green chilli, boiled and strained the clear soup, added 1 tablespoon if lemon extract just before serving, it was flavourful. 

When we realize how we can incorporate a few ingredients and create a dish which provides all the flavours and textures perfect for an evening snack, chaats are such life savers.