Thursday 30 August 2012

Onion Soup | Onion Egg Drop Soup | Easy Soup Recipes

In my previous post (prawn 65) I had promised to post about onion soup today. So here we go. This is a simple and delicious onion soup that comes in so handy when you have no vegetables or meat for preparing soups. This tastes really great and I bet people will wonder if its just an onion soup. The ingredients required will be easily available in your pantry, and you can also amaze your surprise guests with this soup. Can be made in just minutes with few ingredients and so saves your time and money. Many people recognize onions as just a part of cooking or as a garnishing vegetable and so never give much importance to them, but they are very benefiting to health. I have used big onions here so I'll discuss something about them. These pungent smelling onions are very helpful to get rid of depression or hypertension, increases blood circulation, gets rid of cold and cough, and also has some necessary minerals like chromium. Also, these onions have a property to reduce the cholesterol levels which improves cardiovascular health, they are known to be blood thinners that helps to prevent clotting, heart attacks, strokes, blockages in arteries etc, but this property will diminish when onions are cooked. Am sure you must be amazed with all the health benefits of a humble and common vegetable. So coming back to the recipe it is really yum and filling just give a try once and you'll agree with me. You can try your versions too by adding some more flavorful ingredients like garlic, soy sauce etc; this is just a simple yet yummy version. Now lets see what's needed and how to prepare this hot bowl of Onion Soup.

INGREDIENTS 

(Serves one person)
  1. Big onion - 1 (chopped finely)
  2. Egg white - 1 
  3. Coriander leaves - Few 
  4. Corn flour - 2 spoon
  5. Maida /All purpose flour - 1 spoon
  6. Pepper powder - 1/2 spoon
  7. Sugar - 1/4 spoon 
  8. Salt - As per taste 
  9. Lemon juice - 1 spoon (or) lemon slice - 1 
  10. Butter - 1 spoon 
  11. Water - 1.5 glasses 

PREPARATION METHOD

  • Heat a sauce pan and add butter to it. Then add onions  and saute well until it turns translucent. 
  • Then add 1.5 glasses of water and stir well.
  • Add salt, pepper powder and let it boil well for 3 minutes.
  • Simmer the flame and add coriander leaves, sugar and let it boil again for another 2 minutes.
  • Now slowly start adding the egg white into the sauce pan, simultaneously keep stirring the soup so that the egg white forms strings. 
  • Meanwhile in a bowl add maida, corn flour and some water and make a fine paste out of it. 
  • Add this paste to the boiling soup and cook until it thickens well. 
  • Squeeze some lemon juice or drop in a lemon slice and serve!

TIP 1: You can garnish the soup with some caramelized onions. To prepare caramelized onions just saute very thin slices of onions in butter until they turn brownish. 

TIP 2: To avoid irritation and tears while chopping the onions, refrigerate onions few minutes prior to chopping. 

TIP 3: While adding the egg white see that you keep stirring the soup simultaneously to get strings of them.

TIP 4: Never use onions that are chopped and left out for a long time and do not refrigerate chopped onions they will easily absorb the environmental bacteria and toxins easily and so its not advisable. 


Delicious onion soup is now ready serve with any of your favorite starters!! So filling so yum!!

Linking this Hot bowl of soup to Fun-Fair Event!!



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63 comments:

  1. awesome i love soups but egg white

    can i skip this and i guess yes

    and ur pics looks fantastic

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    1. Yes Meenu you can skip the addition of egg white :) And thanks for the appreciations Meenu, you never fail to do that :)

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  2. Definitely a comforting bowl of soup while its raining outside,inviting.

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  3. onion soup with egg... first time seeing divy...
    can i avoid egg?
    VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

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    1. Definitely you can avoid them Viji!! Without eggs also it will taste so good :)

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  4. oops where did my comment go
    i was the first one to post

    hmm ya so can i also avoid eggs

    i love soups especially when they r steaming hot

    bad luck mumbai doesnt hv that much of winter though coz its yummy to have soups then


    Today's recipe

    Ragda patties

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    1. Yes Meenu, in a city with such a climate you won't feel like having warm food, but still I love steaming hot soups.. Here it is cloudy and drizzling so I love to have them :)

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    1. Do try and share your feedback :) Thank you Beena!!

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  6. woww..divya..i will try it for sure..i dont have maida can i skip that?

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    1. Yes dear may be you can add another spoon of corn flour instead of maida :)

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    2. sounds good..will try then..;)

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    3. Do try and let me know the feedback dear :)

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  7. egg, maida and onion.. wow.. it makes excellent combination..

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  8. yummy soup.... Me too had vegetable soup jus now..... Its raining heavily here.....

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    1. Oh wow..it must be definitely comforting in such a climate :)

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  9. Never had a soup with an egg white.. will it smell of egg??

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    1. No gauri it won't even give an egg odour because its egg white!! Have you had sweet corn soup dear the strings in them are these egg whites only..It will taste awesome try it.. But be sure to add egg white slowly to well boiling soup so that it will form strings.

      Try it out Gauri you will definitely love it :)

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  10. Lovely soup Divya, i prepare it the same way but with chicken :P... looks delicious

    Priya
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    1. Yes Priya I prepare chicken and sweet corn soup this way its really yum na?? Thanks for the appreciation dear :)

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  11. Wow... Divya it is inviting me...I like sweet corn chicken soup, your onion soup looks like that..

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    1. It tastes so good Shanthi :) Try them sometime and thanks for the appreciations :)

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  12. Divs...this is too good n looks like sweet corn soup. Loved it dear!

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  13. Never knew that egg whites can be used this way too. Thanks for sharing Divya!

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  14. love this onion soup!!! nice presentation

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  15. Delicious onion soup, Divya. Adding lemon juice at the end, surely enhanced its flavour. Thanks for sharing this yummy soup.

    Today's recipe:

    http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.com/2012/08/rice-kheer-paal-payasam-chaler-payesh.html

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  16. wow inviting and intresting recipe,luks very tempting...

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  17. Nice Healthy onion soup tempting.

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  18. Nice soup. I did see some one make a nice French Onion Soup but they used so much butter and some chicken stock, I put it out of mind. This looks do-able and nice!

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    1. Yes Radha it is so easy and less risky do try them sometime and let me know the feedback :) Thanks for the kind appreciations!!

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  19. yummy and different soup....very nice presentation like always...

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  20. super delicious soup dear..interesting one..

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  21. It sure taste delicious. Love onions

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  22. yummy soup...Ongoing event " Party snacks",more detais : http://en-iniyaillam.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/party-snacks-event-announcement.html

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  23. Wow, so delicious

    http://shwetainthekitchen.blogspot.com/

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  24. yumm tum soup. Thanks for linking

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  25. must have tasted yum n earthy; good one

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  26. The appetizers make great pairing with the lovely soup!

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    1. Yeah Shirley they made a great combo try them sometime :)

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  27. wow a hot onion soup is always very comforting in cold and wet weather....

    http://nayanas-kitchen-kreations.blogspot.in

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    1. Yes dear its a comforting bowl especially during winter :) Thanks for the appreciation :)

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