Strawberry Cold Soup #soupswappers

For the month of May, event for Soup Saturday Swappers,  theme is "Fruit Soups"  and our Host is Camilla M. Mann.  Thank you Camilla for hosting this event.

Fruit soup is a soup prepared using fruit as a main ingredient, it may be served warm or cold, this can be served as a welcome drink too. 

Summer is in and it is so hot,  this chilled fruity soup is so cooling, light and refreshing, perfect to beat the heat. It's so easy to make that it doesn't make you sweat while preparing it.

Serves 3 to 4 

Ingredients

1 Cup Strawberries - chopped
1 Cup Yogurt
1 Cup Ice Cubes
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Large Orange  - segmented and deseeded


Method

Place the orange segments, strawberries and ice in a blender jar and blend well,  then sieve it.  Pour this into glasses. 

Keep in the refrigerator to  get really cold. When ready to serve, garnish it with strawberry slice and mint sprig. Enjoy..

Labels : Strawberry, Orange, Cold Soup, Soup, Soup Swappers, Healthy

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Chocolate Orange Buns

I had to make something filling for friends for breakfast. As usual lots of things come to your mind.  But I wanted something that could be prepared the previous night as I go for my walk very early .  Opened my recipe book and found this pic glaring at me, now this is the apt recipe for our breakfast.  Got the ingredients together and ta da  started my preparation.  By the time these were ready it was 11pm.   When my friends had them next day they thrilled because they looked like roses.   

Makes around 18 Buns

Ingredients for Dough
4 Cups Flour
1 Tablespoon Coco powder
1/2 Cup Castor Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon powder
1/4 Cup Oil
1/2 Cup Glazed Cherries - chopped
2 Tablespoon Raisins - chopped
2 Tablespoons Orange Juice
2 Tablespoons Orange Jelly Crystals
2.1/2 Teaspoons Instant Yeast
4 Tablespoons Milk powder
1 to 1.1/2 Cup Warm Water - for kneading

Ingredients for the Filling
100 - 150 Grams Orange Marmalade
2 Tablespoons Butter - melted

For the Glaze
1/4 Cup Orange Juice
4 Tablespoon Orange Marmalade

Method
Mix all the ingredients for the dough well. then add little little water at a time and knead into a soft dough. Take this dough on to your kitchen counter and knead for 10 minutes till soft and smooth dough is achieved. Place this into an oiled bowl cover and leave it to rise till double in volume for about a hour or more.

Grease a muffin pan well and keep it ready.

Then when risen punch the dough and roll it into a square sheet about 1/4 inch thick. 

Then apply melted butter with a brush on the sheet well.

 Spread orange marmalade over it. 

Then roll into a thigh roll.

Divide this into 4 parts., then divide each part into 5 or 6 equal parts.

 Place them into the muffin pan and leave them rise till double in volume for about 45 minutes to an hour.

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees and bake these for 20 to 25 minutes.  Remove them from the muffin pan after 5 minutes and place them on a wire rack.  If you keep them lying in the muffin pan they will turn soggy.

For the glaze:

Heat the orange juice lightly add the marmalade and mix well.  Brush the buns with the glaze when they are out off the oven.

We had these with khawa, a herbed tea.

Labels : Breads, Chocolate, Orange, Blogging Marathon

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Orange Wine

After successfully making Ginger wine, my enthusiasm to try new wines increased. In dug into my recipe book and found this recipe of Orange Wine in this book (East Indian Recipe) with few changes I made this wine and it turned out so lovely and the color is awesome. This is very easy to make. I know when you speak of winemaking the first thought that come to our mind OH God! who wants take the trouble to make wine. Now all types of wines are available in the Wine shop. But try this wine and you will not regret it.  It has a lovely taste and such a pleasant fragrance.  Have this wine chilled.

Let me tell you I not crazy about wines, actually speaking I do not have wine.  This wine I sent to my friends house as a gift and they enjoyed it.  

Ingredients
10 Oranges  
1 ½ kg Sugar  

4 ½ litre Water 
½ Teaspoon Yeast

Method

Wash oranges and wipe it with a kitchen tissue or clean cloth.
With a citrus peeler or vegetable peeler thinly peel the orange zest without the white part. Extract the juice from the oranges and keep aside.

Boil sugar, water and orange zest in a big vessel.

When the mixture begins to boil, add orange juice and bring it to a nice boil and turn off the flame.

When the mixture becomes lukewarm, add yeast and transfer the mixture to a sterilized glass bottle / bharani, cover it and leave for 14 days stirring daily.

After 14 days, strain the mixture through a cheese/muslin cloth in to a clean dry bottle. 

Keep this again for 7 days untouched. After 7 days strain the wine again, pour it into clean dry bottles and use.  

See the lovely color.  Enjoy it.

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Labels: Wine, Blogging Marathon , Orange, Homemade