Vegetable and Ginger soup.

Monsoons is the time for hot and filling soups. Mumbai rains are are erratic. Sometimes its a soothing drizzle and another time it will be the most violent downpour for hours on end. This soup helps get by those dark, cold and depressing days.

4 cups of stock ( veg, chicken) sliced carrots, spring onion, cabbage, finely sliced new ginger, 2 cloves of garlic crushed. Salt and pepper to taste, a pinch of sugar. 1 cup of puffed rice ( optional).
Boil the stock add in the ginger and let it simmer, then add carrots and cook till half done. Add the spring onions and cabbage and take off the stove. To give a dramatic twist to the soup, fry puffed rice ( Kurmura, lahiya) in a tsp of oil till crisp. Add to the soup directly into every soup bowl after the soup has been served. The sizzle sure lifts up the spirits. Serve with garlic bread.Enjoy.