Paya Soup
This soup, apart from having loads of flavor, can also be a great health supplement for all those who have had any sort of bone problem like fracture, calcium deficiency, iron deficiency and for ladies post-delivery and in pre-menopausal stage. This soup is especially good for Tuberculosis patients. Patients having it regularly have shown remarkable recovery.
Recipe Particulars:
- Servings: Around 400 ml
- Preparation Time: 20 mins
- Cooking Time: 15 mins
- Recipe Credit: The recipe was taken from here to promote healthy eating. We are deeply grateful to the author for posting the same: You are helping us encourage a healthy heart 🙂.
- Approximate Nutrition Facts: Cal 60, Fat 5.5gm., Cholesterol 73gm., Sodium 199 mg., Potassium 550 mg., Carbs 10gm.
Dietary fibers 2gm., Protein 25gm., Sugar 0.5 gm, Vitamin A 142%, B12 50% , Calcium, Copper, Iron and other micro nutrients are present in the soup. All values given above are not exact but approximation to the nearest value. - Those suffering from High BP should not add tomatoes as it has high sodium content.
- This is a Recipe from Jyotsna Pant’s Blog. Refer to the blog for complete recipe with Pictures, suggestions and tips.
Recipe Ingredients:
- 4 Pieces or Mutton Legs (Lower bone part of goat leg / Shank)
- 1 Medium size Onion
- 1 inch Ginger piece
- 1/2 medium size Tomato
- 5-6 Sprigs of fresh green coriander leaves
- 2-3 Cloves
- 1 cm. Piece of Cinnamon
- Salt to taste
- Water
Recipe Directions:
- Wash the mutton bone pieces very nicely, to get rid of all hair pieces stuck to them
- Cut onion.
- Cut tomatoes.
- Peel and cut ginger piece.
- Wash coriander sprigs nicely and cut them.
- Put in a pressure cooker: Mutton pieces, Cut onion, Cut tomato, Cut ginger, Cut coriander leaves, Piece of cinnamon, Cloves, Salt, 150 ml. water
- Close the lid and keep on high flame and cook on high flame till pressure builds in the cooker.
- Lower the flame and cook on low flame for 5 min.
- Switch off the gas and let the cooker cool with all boiled ingredients in it.
- When cool remove the boiled material from cooker.
- Remove cinnamon, cloves and discard them.
- Remove the bones and put them in a bowl with some water and with a bone scooper take out if anything is left in the bone.
- Rinse the boiled bones with some mashing action.
- Keep all liquid in a bowl and discard the bones.
- Grind all other solid boiled material except bones in a grinder- mixer to a paste.
- Mix all the liquid and paste together and sieve it through a sieve.
- Add water to make the soup of the consistency you want.
- Give a nice boil and garnish it with a dash of lemon juice and black pepper powder.
- Drink/ serve piping hot.
