Plantain Stem Soup/vazhaithandu Soup
By: priyadarshini
Published: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 1:31am

Ingredients




small Plaintain Stem/Vazhaithandu - 1 (clean,wash and cut into  cubes)
Water - 5cups

Garlic(finely chopped) - 1pod

small Ginger(Finely chopped) - a  piece
Onion(Finely chopped) - 1tablespoon

Spring Onion(Finely chopped) - 1tablespoon

Coriander Leaves(Finely chopped) - 2tablespoon

inch Vegetable stock cube - 1(dissolve  water)
Cumin/Jeera Powder - 1teaspoon

inch Corn Flour - 1teaspoon dissolved  2teaspoons milk or water
Ajinamoto - a pinch

Pepper for taste

Salt for taste.

Butter - 1tablespoon

Note:If you dont get stock cube u can very well use rasam powder.In that case u can avoid cumin powder coz rasam powder will hav

Preparation

1 Heat butter in a sauce pan.Add garlic and ginger and saute for 1min. 2 Add onion and springonions.saute for 2mins. 3 Add Plantain stem and saute for 5mins. 4 Add water and cumin powder bring it to boil.close it with a lid and allow plantain stem to cook. 5 Once plantain stem is half done,add stock cube,required salt and stir it continuously for 2mins. 6 Now add cornflour which is dissolved in water and stir continously till it comes to soup consistency. 7 Finally add a pinch of Ajinamoto and pepper for taste.Garnish with Coriander leaves. 8 Serve either with masala papad,salad,corn flakes or soup stick

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a healthy plantain stem soup.