Spinach Soup

Shilpa Vithalani Kothari

Healthy Soup packed with high amounts of carotenoids, vitamin C, vitamin K, folic acid, iron, and calcium.

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Resting time (To be used for preparing White Sauce) 15

Total Time 55

Course Soup

Cuisine Indian

Servings

Calories

1 & 1/2 Tbspn Butter
1 Tbspn All Purpose Flour (APF) / Maida
4 Cloves Minced Garlic
250 ml Milk + Water (Equal quantity)
1 Tspn Pepper Powder
3 Tbspn Parmesan Cheese Powder You can use any other grated cheese available at home as substitute or completely skip it if you do not have it
Salt To Taste

Gather ingredients for spinach puree
Heat oil in a pan
Once oil is heated, add onions and cook the onions until they turn translucent.
Once the onions turn translucent, add chopped spinach.
Mix spinach with onions.
Add water.
Let the mixture boil for about 5 mins on high flame.
Let the spinach mixture cool down for 15 minutes. In the mean while let us work on making white sauce.
After the spinach mixture cools down, add it to mixture grinder to make a puree.

Heat butter in a pan on low heat.
Once the butter is heated, add minced garlic and roast the garlic until you get aroma of garlic, and it changes color slightly.
Once the garlic is roasted, add flour and roast the flour until the color changes slightly.
After the flour is roasted, add milk and water mixture. Continuously whisk the mixture to make sure there is no lump formation.
Bring the mixture to a boil while whisking in between.
Add salt.
Add pepper powder.
Add parmesan cheese powder.
Keep whisking to avoid any lump formation and get homogeneous mixture. Once the sauce becomes thick in texture, turn off the flame.

Take the spinach puree in one pan. Heat up the pan and let the mixture start simmering.
Add the white sauce prepared to this spinach puree and let it come to boil.
Add salt. Please ensure to taste the salt before adding, as we have added salt in white sauce as well.
Our creamy, healthy spinach soup is now ready.
You can serve this soup before meals, have it as a meal by itself. You can also serve this with garlic toast or plain bread toast.

As a mother I always like to experiment and find new methods of making healthy meals for children.

I liked Spinach soup as a good way to add greens to the meal.

Keyword Healthy, Nutritious, Soup, Spinach

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