ZERO OIL VEGETABLE BROTH

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time : 10 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 tomatoes                                                        

1 onion roughly chopped

1 potato
1 inch piece of ginger
4 cloves of garlic
1 carrot roughly chopped
100 gms bottle guard (lauki/ghiya)
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper or to taste
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1 carrot grated
1 cup cabbage shredded
100 gms cottage cheese diced
coriander for garnising

Method:

1. Pressure cook tomatoes,onion,potato,ginger garlic,chopped carrot and bottle gourd with 3 cups of water till 3-4 whistles.
2. When the pressure releases mash the pressure cooked vegetables in a mixer or with a blender.
3. Add salt.sugar and black pepper and boil the broth for 5 minutes.
4. Add grated carrot,shredded cabbage and diced cottage cheese and cook further for two minutes.
5. Garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot along with steamed rice or chapati.