Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:
1/2 Cup - Beans cut into small pieces
1/2 Cup - Carrot cut into small cubes
1/2 Cup - Sweet Corn
1/2 Cup - Capsicum [Optional] small pieces
4 Cups - Water
2 tea spoons - Corn Flour powder
Salt to taste
Pepper Powder

Procedure:

• Boil the water in a vessel and add vegetables to it.
• Once the vegetables are cooked, add salt.
• Add 1/2 - 1 Cup of water if the water evaporates.
• Take a small cup with some water and mix the corn flour powder and make it into a paste.
• When the water begins to bubble add this corn flour paste.
• Stir continuously.
• Add pepper powder at the end and server hot.

Minty Mango Delight

Ingredients
1/3 cup - Sugar
1 cup - Raw Mangoes (peeled and cubed)
6 to 8 - Mint leaves (Pudina)
1 cup - Crushed ice

For The Garnish
4 sprigs of mint leaves (Pudina)

Procedure:

• Combine the sugar with ½ cup of water in a sauce pan, mix well and cook on a medium flame till the sugar dissolves, while stirring continuously.
• Add raw mangoes and cook on a medium flame till the mangoes are tender, while stirring twice in between. Keep aside to cool.
• Combine the cooked mangoes and mint leaves in a mixer and blend till smooth.
• In each rock glass, place ¼ cup of crushed ice and pour equal quantity of the drink over it.
• Serve immediately garnished with a sprig of mint leaf.