Kingdom of Knuffel

Ooh, I like all of those! But garlic and chili only if they're used very sparingly lol.

Hmmm that's a hard one. But I like my soups clear, and if not clear, very thin. So I like Tomato Shorbha better than the regular tomato soup you get in restaurants. And I like Mooli Sambar (also called Mullangi Sambar), a lentil soup with radishes. I like it very thin, too, less lentil and more radish and water. I like Pappu Chaaru, another thin sweetish lentil soup (it's got a bit of jaggery in it) and I like regular Chaaru, a clear soup, but there's a variety of ways of making that one. I like it mild, with a bit of tamarind, and made from scratch, not from Chaaru powder. I'm sorry, these are all probably things you've never heard of lol Oh! I like the mild clear noodle soups you get in some Japanese and Korean cuisine, though I doubt I've ever had anything authentic because I haven't been there and also I'm vegetarian.

What about your favourites?

Hey, I'm vegetarian too! High five!

Soup-wise we have different tastes, though. I tend to prefer the thicker soups! So a nice THICK daal. And I like cabbage borscht but not beet borscht, because it gets too sweet for me with the beets. Pretty much the opposite.

Although I do like eggflower soup which is a thinner, clear broth. And there's this Thai fish soup we make whenever we go out to the coast and get lucky with fishing, that's also a clear broth although we tend to overload it with chopped bok choy because if I do that I can just serve the soup as a full meal itself, and if I leave it thinner then I have to serve another dish too. (laziness may drive my preferences a fair bit, here, now I think on it.)

I'm curious about the Chaaru soups, that sounds good, I'd like to try that.... I can get tamarind here in a variety of forms, can you give the other ingredients and a quick, general instruction on it?

Mmm garlic.

I don't like soup except pumpkin soup.

Lady River wrote:Mmm garlic.

I don't like soup except pumpkin soup.

I never had pumpkin soup but I like pumpkin so I think I might like it

i think pumpkin soup, spiced, would be pretty yum. but i've never had it either. i'd like to make a soup blending carrot and pumpkin cause they go well together

Mynah wrote:i think pumpkin soup, spiced, would be pretty yum. but i've never had it either. i'd like to make a soup blending carrot and pumpkin cause they go well together

yeah, and i think pumpkin spice, or allspice, are readily available in some places so it might not take work figuring out which spices would go. i think cardamom and clove would go well tho

have anyone had this before. it's good