Thursday, May 20, 2010

MW Celery & Quinoa Soup

I love to enjoy soups or salads for our usual dinner, its quite a simple way to enjoy veggies instead of sauting ,frying etc..I usually go for simple soups, sometimes i prepare a bowl of soup specially for me while others at home have enjoy french fries and roasted chickens, i wont say that am dieting but having soup for dinner been almost a routine for me..This celery and quinoa soup was one among those easy breezy soup i prepared yesterday for our dinner, we enjoyed this celery and quinoa soup along with some toasted bread slices, this soup is a complete food which is quite filling, healthy also delicious,the addition of quinoa turned out this soup more healthier and we enjoyed having this fabulous soup for dinner..

Celery & Quinoa Soup

2cups Celery stem
2nos Potatoes (chopped)
1no Onion(chopped)
1tbsp Olive oil
Salt
Pepper
1/4cup Red Quinoa

Cook quinoa with a half cup of water and salt in a microwave safe bowl for 10minutes high in microwave oven..In a another bowl, add the olive oil and chopped onions cook everything for 5 minutes until the onion turns transculent (stir in between)..Add the celery pieces and chopped potatoes to the onions, cook for 5 minutes finally add enough water, salt and pepper powder cook in high for 15minutes (stir in between)..Take the bowl out, blend as soup with a hand blender..Reheat the soup along with already cooked quinoa for 3minutes in high..

Serve warm along with toasted breads or any grilled meat..

39 comments:

PranisKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

priya very delicious and healthy soup another treat with quinoa.

FH said... Reply To This Comment

Simple ingredients and such a healthy soup, good one Priya.

Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) said... Reply To This Comment

simple yet yummy and healty soup.with quinoa.looks awesome

Shabitha Karthikeyan said... Reply To This Comment

Wonderful soup..Looks creamy and delicious...

Suman Singh said... Reply To This Comment

soup looks rich n delicious Priya...healthy too...:)

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

havent tasted celery yet.. looks like this would be best to start with .. and flavour of onions potatoes too.. yummy!

vegan apple hazelnut muffins are awesome!

u rock girl... ur blog is a whole cookbook.. let me count the pages :)

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Priya,

I am not a fan of celery, But this soup looks really healthy and yummy.

Nithu Bala said... Reply To This Comment

awesome recipe..very healthy soup..

kamala said... Reply To This Comment

Want finish the whole bowl of soup now.

Vrinda said... Reply To This Comment

Nice soup,looks creamy....

SpicyTasty said... Reply To This Comment

I love celery in any dish. Never tested quinoa gotta try it soon.

Manju said... Reply To This Comment

sounds like an interesting combo!! looks great though..

Cool Lassi(e) said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely creamy color contrasting soup. Yum!

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy soup dear..great combo and looks rich and creamy.

Umm Mymoonah said... Reply To This Comment

I love celery,nice healthy recipe.You are inventing quite lot of recipes with quinoa,that too in microwave,wow!

Rachana said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and flavourful bowl of soup :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, I love how you try to add quinoa to everything, sounds really healthy and your muffins are a perfect fit for my entry, so please send them for sure :)

Cham said... Reply To This Comment

That is something very light and healthy!

Prema said... Reply To This Comment

again with a healthy and innovative recipe,gr8 priya.Soup sounds gr8.too gud.

Faiza Ali said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy soup..and as usual very innovative.

Love2cook Malaysia said... Reply To This Comment

Very healthy soup dear! I want a bowl too...;)

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Very healthy soup Priya...I have bookmarked this for tomorrow lunch for my hubby :)

divya said... Reply To This Comment

awesome recipe..very healthy soup..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious looking soup..Interesting recipe..

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Such a healthy soup in just few minutes!! /fantastic Priya. And thanks for that link . That was helpful

Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

Kiran said... Reply To This Comment

A very healthy and easy to make quinoa soup.Nice pic.

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

delicious soup priya.

GEETHA ACHAL said... Reply To This Comment

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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

nice and healthy...

3 hungry tummies said... Reply To This Comment

you really are the queen of quinoa dear! I bought a packet of quinoa the other day, now i have another of your recipe using that. Fabulous!

Life is beautiful !!! said... Reply To This Comment

Looks very beautiful and yummy. Soup every dinner, I would also like to have it :)

SathyaSridhar said... Reply To This Comment

Soup super ah irukku Priya,, nice combo healthy ingredients en veetukaararukku soup um roll um vechutta poedhum amruthama saaptuduvaaru..kandippa try pandren paa.

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Ooh! Soup! It's lovely! I'll 'urunchi' from the bowl!

Jiboombaa said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely soup...Nice to see one more creation with quinoa.

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Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

ஹெல்தியான சூப்!! செலரியுடன் கினோவா காà®®்பினேஷன் நல்லாயிà®°ுக்கு.நானுà®®் கினோவாவுடன் வெஜ் போட்டு சூப் செய்தேன்.அடுத்தமுà®±ை உங்கள் à®®ுà®±ைப்படி செய்து பாà®°்க்கனுà®®்...

AJ said... Reply To This Comment

Very nice Priya - Red quinoa is a great addition to the traditional celery and potato soup.

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

the red quinoa is the best part..it adds so much beauty to the soup

GayathriRaj said... Reply To This Comment

Hey that is something very nice....i never heard about that red quinoa priya...can u just tell me what is it....??and i ltoo love soups a lot...

EC said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and yumm soup..thanks for participating