Mixed Vegetable Soup with a twist by Jane

Hi all.

Here is a beautiful mixed vegetable soup recipe, shared by Jane, a PhD student from London. It was posted as a comment to the ‘about’ page.

https://cookingwithkettle.wordpress.com/about/

I took the liberty to share it with other friends of mine. And friends, Jane did this with an element type electric kettle. Even though I have an element type kettle with me, I haven’t had any adventures with them lately. So this is a real inspiration for me. I hope you will also like the recipe. Below is the original comment and recipe with slight modifications.

Thank you Jane

Hey, I am a PhD student with no money and a hungry tummy in London. I get sick of eating sandwiches and cold leftovers from home. I have a kettle in my office (it’s the type with an element, rather than a heating plate – but I don’t let that stop me!), and I also have a blender. I think this is a magical combination – allowing me to make nutritious soups every day…

Here’s what I do:

1. Chop up vegetables of your choice into small pieces – they cook quicker (at the moment I’m eating broccoli, carrots, potatoes, celery and other seasonal, cheap vegetables)
2. Put the chopped veg into the kettle. Just cover with cold water and click the switch on. Allow to boil, the leave the vegetables in the hot water for a few minutes, 3-5 minutes is sufficient.
3. Then pour the whole lot into the blender – remove a bit of the hot water,(if it looks like too much), you can always add more. 🙂
4. Add some seasoning: salt, pepper and stock powder (I like Marigold Swiss Boullion) to taste and a very generous knob of butter. You can also add some cream at this stage if you like, I like to add full-cream milk.
5. Whizz the soup until it is smooth.
6. Serve with bread and butter.

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Making Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients:

• Eggs.
• Salt.
• Green Chilies
• Coconut or sunflower oil
• Pepper, if you like it.

Danger Level: mild

Preparation:

This is a tricky preparation. Break the eggs and pour the contents to a tumbler. Add salt to taste. Chop green chilies (for one egg, go with a quarter of a chili). Mix it all together and stir with a spoon. Connect the kettle to the supply with kettle switch off. Pour 2 tbsp of oil to the kettle. Keep every thing in handy places. Spread oil on the bottom of the kettle and switch on the kettle for  seconds, check if the oil is warm if not continue this in 2 second intervals till the oil is warm. Pour the contents of the tumbler in to the kettle and continue the on off process. Check for the cooked smell of egg. Switch of the kettle and scramble the egg with a spoon and continue the process till egg is completely cooked. Add pepper to garnish

This can be served on a bowl with sweet bread which will make a nice breakfast.

Time: 

For a 750W kettle the scrambled egg might take about  5 minutes