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Ingredients:
• 8-10 stems – Spinach leaves
• 4-5- tender stalks of the leaves just below Cauliflower
• 2-3 stems -coriander leaves
• 1- small sprig Spring onion
• 1 stalk – Celery
• 1/2 inch- Ginger peeled and crushed
• 1 -clove Garlic crushed
• 1 tbsp Corn flour
• 1/4- Dried red chilli crushed
• 1/2 tsp. -sugar
• salt
• pepper
• 1/2 tsp. -oil or Butter
• 2.5 cups- water
Method:
- Clean any fibrous threads from the stems.
- Chop the vegetables into thin slanted slivers.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger garlic.
- Saute for a minute. Add vegetables.
- Stir-fry till tender. Add water and bring to a boil.
- Mix corn flour in 1/2 cup cold water.
- Add to soup, stirring continuously till it comes back to a boil.
- Add the chilli, sugar, salt, pepper and boil till thickened like corn soup.
- Serve fresh and piping hot.
Recipe courtesy of Saroj Kering