Mushroom Soup Kaalaan Soup

PREP TIME: 5 min

COOK TIME: 5 min

TOTAL TIME: 10 min

YIELD: 3

DIFFICULTY: easy

RECIPE TYPE: Soup

Ingredients:

225 g White Mushrooms (around 12 mushrooms)

1/2 finely chopped Onion (I used red onion)

1 small Tomato
1 Garlic clove, minced
1 fresh Ginger root, minced
2 tbsp freshly chopped Cilantro (Coriander leaves, kottha malli, hara dhaniya)
1/2 tsp Sesame oil (I use Iddhiyam Gingelly oil/Sesame oil/Nallennai)
1/2 tsp freshly ground Black Pepper
1/4 tsp. Turmeric Powder (Manjal thool/Haldi)
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds (Jeera/seeragam)
1/2 tsp Salt
2 cup Water

*** Optional ***

1/2 tsp. Coriander powder (Malli thool/Dhaniya powder) [Optional]
1/2 tsp. Red Chilli powder (Milahai thool/Lal mirchi powder) [Optional]

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hand 5-minute Quick and Easy Soup recipes

. ThisSimple Mushroom Soup recipe

(Kaalaan Soup) is the mirror-mirror of my famous Indian Style Chicken Soup recipe,
except that, chicken is replaced by Mushrooms. When I say its a 5-minute soup recipe,
I mean it, okay! A spicy, thin mushroom soup that is made WITHOUT using butter or
cream or milk or maida (all-pourpose flour) or cheese.

Before demonstrating how to make a Spicy Mushroom Soup, let me throw you a simple
question. What makes a recipe to sound and taste like South-Indian? I would say, it is
the Nalla ennai/Sesame oil/Gingelly Oil. Yes. When an Indian recipe demands sesame
oil, you can easily guess that the recipeis from the state of Tamilnadu. At home, we
use Idhayam Nallennai (Iddhiyam Sesame oil/Idhayyam Gingelly oil) , be it for
poriyal or tempering the chutneys or gravies, especially the non-vegetarian varuval
recipes (non-veg fry) and more importantly for soups. We add few drops of gingelly
oil while making thin soups, like this kalaan soup, kozhi soup, mutton soup (aatu kaal
soup) etc. Adding sesame oil gives a beautiful flavor to the soup and makes it taste
utter Restaurant style! No, Im not exaggerating. Find the readers praises in the
comment section of my Tamilnadu Restaurant Style Chicken Soup recipe. The reader
says, After having it I felt the same taste as I could have from anypopular chettinad
chain such as Anjappar or Karaikudi