Murungakeerai soup recipe| Drumstick leaves soup

Murungakeerai Soup | Drumstick leaves soup, recipe with step wise pictures, a healthy, diabetic friendly soup, perfectly suits for lactating mothers too, made using drumstick leaves. Recently i got a bunch of drumstick leaves, called as Murungakeerai in Tamil, from a home garden. The Organic leaves were so fresh and usually i made murungaikeerai poriyal | Thuvattal and sometimes add in Adai too. When i asked some recipe suggestions using the leaves in my Instagram and facebook story, i got loads of response from readers. Thank you everyone for the overwhelming response. Few interesting recipes i chose from that and i thought i will share it here with you all. Stay tuned for more interesting recipes using murungakeerai.

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Murungakeerai Soup recipe

• Recipe Cusine: Indian
• Prep Time: 10 Minutes
• Cook time: 25 Minutes
• Serves: 4-5
• Author: Jeyashri
• Recipe Category: Lunch | Dinner
• Description: Murungakeerai Soup | Drumstick leaves soup, recipe with step wise pictures, a healthy,diabetic friendly soup, perfectly suits for lactating mothers too, made using drumstick leaves

    Drumstick leaves  2 cups
    Small onion 5
    Garlic  5 cloves
    Tomato  1/2
    Water  3 cups
    Pepper powder  to taste
    Salt  as needed
    Butter  1 tsp

Method :

• In a pressure cooker add 1 tsp of butter and add the small onions and garlic.
• Saute for 2 minutes.
• Add the tomato, you can roughly chop the tomato and add.
• Saute for a minute.
• Add the drumstick leaves.
• Mix well. Add 2 cups of water.
• Pressure cook this 2 whistles.
• Once done, release the pressure and allow this to cool completely. 
• Strain the water and keep aside, we will use this later. 
• Grind the cooked mixture into a fine paste. 
• Add the reserved water and 1 cup of water.
• Strain the ground mixture through a sieve.
• Extract the juice and discard the rest.
• Add pepper and salt to this and bring to this to a boil.
• Once it starts boiling switch off the flame.
• Murungakeerai soup is ready to serve.

Notes:

1. You can add fresh cream to this soup in the last stage. 
2. To add thickness to the soup, you can add 1 tblsp of yellow moong dal while cooking the drumstick leaves soup. 

    

Method with step by step pictures :

• In a pressure cooker add 1 tsp of butter and add the small onions and garlic.
• Saute for 2 minutes.
• Add the tomato, you can roughly chop the tomato and add.
• Saute for a minute.

• Add the drumstick leaves.
• Mix well. Add 2 cups of water.
• Pressure cook this 2 whistles.

• Once done, release the pressure and allow this to cool completely. 
• Strain the water and keep aside, we will use this later. 
• Grind the cooked mixture into a fine paste. 
• Add the reserved water and 1 cup of water.
• Strain the ground mixture through a sieve.

• Extract the juice and discard the rest.
• Add pepper and salt to this and bring to this to a boil.
• Once it starts boiling switch off the flame.

• Murungakeerai soup is ready to serve. 

Notes:

1. You can add fresh cream to this soup in the last stage. 
2. To add thickness to the soup, you can add 1 tblsp of yellow moong dal while cooking the drumstick leaves soup.