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Carrot Soup for the Healthy Heart

Since carrots are very low on fat and rich in vitamins and minerals therefore they are very good for convulsing persons. Making soup does not destroy the nutrients. For those who are on strict diet regime for weight, soups are the best nourishing, make full dinner along with greens, whole wheat bread and chicken / fish.

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: Calories: 71 , Total Fat:0.403 gm (saturated 0.118 gm. , Polysaturated 0.174 gm, mono saturated 0.026 gm.) , Potassium: 5410 mg, Sodium: 73 mg, Total Carb: 72.03 gm, Sugars: 7.50 gm, Protein: 14.16 gm, Vitamin A: 34%, Vitamin C: 26% , Calcium: 4%, Iron:4%, Dietary Fibers:10.28 gm., Garlic is good source of Phosphorous, Selenium, Manganese, Vitamin B6
• This is a Recipe from Jyotsna Pant’s Blog. Refer to the blog for complete recipe with Pictures, suggestions and tips.

Recipe Ingredients:

• 100 gm. Carrots
• 50 gm. Onion
• 4-5 cloves of garlic
• 50 gm. (One medium size) Tomato
• Salt to taste
• 2-3 cm. Long Stick of Cinnamon
• Water (As needed)

Recipe Directions:

• Wash the carrots and remove the thin roots sticking to them.
• Remove the top where leaves were attached.
• Cut carrots to on 2-3 cm. big pieces.
• Peel onion and cut it to 2-3 cm. big pieces or slice to long thin pieces.
• Peel garlic and pound it.
• Wash and cut tomato to 2-3 cm. big pieces.
• Take all carrot, tomato, onion, garlic, cinnamon and 150 ml. water into a pressure cooker.
• Close the lid of pressure cooker and keep it on high flame till pressure is formed in the cooker.
• Lower the flame and cook for 2-3 min.
• Remove the cooker from gas and allow it to cool.
• Sieve the liquid from boiled solid.
• Mash all solid and pass the contents of cooker through a sieve.
•  While passing the mashed contents through the sieve make sure maximum mashed vegetables pass through it. You may require 100-200 ml. water to sieve the solid through the sieve.
• Throw the little solid left on the sieve. They will mostly be seeds of tomato and cinnamon stick.
• Add the pulp to the liquid you get after sieving, add salt and give one boil.
• Take out the hot soup in a soup bowl / glass sprinkle some pepper powder and serve hot.