I am a very very lazy Mom. And here in Boston, we have this very cruel winter, that makes me lazier than ever. From there only comes my "very lazy chicken rice vegetable soup". Whenever I feel exhausted after a long day work, I land up ordering take-out food or pizzas. However, we, as mom, all have this guilt consciousness lurking in corner, that we are not doing enough. Hence I come up with this easy recipe of chicken rice soup (especially made for a picky-eater preschooler). Its very easy to make and now a days I have some other short-cut plans too.
I cut the vegetables in inch size at weekend and store them for a week. I usually store different type of vegetables in separate boxes. Most cases I use Pyrex, Rubbermaid or progressive storage box. This helps me to choose the menu I want to cook whenever I need in the working weekdays. If you want to cook in half of the weekdays, as I do; this is a very good option for you. Do choose the menu before hand and keep the vegetables pre-cut with date labelled on the box wall. I also keep peeled garlic in the zip-lock bag. However I do not keep chopped tomatoes or onions stored.
Coming back to chicken rice soup recipe again, you can choose to ignore chicken part and make same way completely vegetable rice soup. Here is the recipe.
Recipe :
1. ½ cup brown rice, washed-soaked in water for 30 minutes (this is first step, you can start here and prepare the rest)
2.Coarsely
cut onion-1 cup
3.Garlic-3-4
pieces-crushed
4.Ginger-peeled
and stick size
5.Tomatoes-1 cup coarsely chopped
6.Green
beans-cut in 1” size
7.Brocoli
floret-cut in small chunk
8.Potato-cut
in long 2” size
13. ½ cup bite size chicken breast-washed,cleaned
Cooking Direction :
1. Warm
up 1 Tb
spoon of oil/butter (you can play around with amount) in a flat bottom pressure
cooker or flat bottom pan
2. Sizzle
the oil with one cardamom (usually I crush it little bit before putting it in
oil) and one 1” cinnamon stick
3. As
soon as the beautiful aroma of spies comes out, add onion
4. Fry
Onion for 1 minute and add veggies
5. Sauté
the veggies little bit and then add chicken
6. Add
½ Tb spoon of cumin powder, coriander powder and pinch of ground black pepper
and turmeric
7. Sauté
veggies and chicken for 2 minutes
8. Add
1 cup of chicken broth ( you can use vegetable broth or plain water too)
9. Add
salt according to taste
10. Boil
them for 10 minutes
11. Add
soaked brown rice with ½ cup of water
Close
the lid of the pressure cooker and wait for 3 whistles. Cool it off little bit before you open the lid.
Soup is ready to serve.:)