Three Bean Soup

Three Bean Soup

Madras Curry Soup

Madras Curry Soup

Ingredients :-

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
• 2 tablespoons curry powder
• 450g (1lb) coarsely chopped tomatoes
• 2 medium carrots, peeled and cut into rounds
• 350g (12oz) potatoes, peeled and cut into rough dice
• 120g (4½oz) peas, fresh, or frozen and defrosted
• 2¼ teaspoons salt, or to taste
• 250ml (8floz) double cream
• approximately 250ml (8fl oz) vegetable stock
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh chives, to garnish (optional)

Cooking Directions :-

Put the oil in a pan and set over medium–high heat. When hot, add the onion. Sauté for 4–5 minutes or until the onion is golden. Add the curry powder and stir for 10 seconds. Now add the tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, peas, salt and 1 litre (1¾ pints) water. Bring to the boil. Cover, turn the heat to low and simmer gently for 45 minutes.
 
Blend the soup in batches in a blender, then strain it through a coarse sieve. Make sure you collect all the pulp under the sieve. Return the soup to the pan. Add the cream and stir. Now add the stock, adjusting the amount according to the thickness of soup you want. Stir to mix well. Reheat the soup, if you want it hot, or cover and refrigerate if you want it cold. Garnish with the chopped chives to serve.

Carrot and Ginger Soup with Lemon

Carrot and Ginger Soup with Lemon

Ingredients :-

• 1 ½ lbs/700g carrots, peeled and chopped
• 2 medium onions, peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 clove garlic, peeld and crushed
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp powdered ginger
• 1 tsp medium curry powder
• 3 pints /1.6 litres chicken or vegetable stock
• Sea salt and black pepper
• Rind of 1 lemon, finely shredded
• LEMON CREAM
• 7 oz/200g creme fraiche
• Grated rind of 1 lemon
• 2 tsp fresh parsley, chopped
• 2 tsp chives, chopped

Cooking Directions :-

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the onions and carrots, cook for several minutes, stirring from time to time. Do not brown the vegetables.
 
Then add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and cook for a further minute.
 
Add the stock and lemon strips to the pan, half cover the pan with its lid, and simmer gently for 20 minutes until the carrots are tender.
 
Cool slightly, and then liquidize the soup until smooth.
 
Taste and season with sea salt and black pepper.
 
Serve this warm soup.

Spinach and Okra Soup

Spinach and Okra Soup

Ingredients :-

• 4 tablespoons olive or groundnut oil
• 1 onion, coarsely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
• 1 small carrot, cut into coarse rounds
• 10 green beans, cut into 2.5cm (1in) pieces
• 7 okra, 6 trimmed and cut crossways into coarse slices
• 1 very thinly sliced, to garnish
• 450g (1lb) fresh spinach,well washed and cut crossways into strips 1cm (½in) wide
• 1–2 fresh hot green chillies, coarsely sliced
• 750ml (1¼ pints) chicken stock
• 400ml (14fl oz) tin coconut milk, well stirred
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

Cooking Directions :-

1. Put the oil in a large pan and set it over medium–high heat.When the oil is hot, put in the onion, garlic, carrot, green beans and okra. Saute for 5 minutes.
 
2. Now put in the spinach and chillies and cook for another 5 minutes. Pour in the stock, stir and bring to the boil. Cover the pan, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 25–30 minutes.
 
3. Put the soup in a food processor or blender and blend coarsely or smoothly, as desired.You will need to do this in several batches. Return the soup to the pan. Add the coconut milk and some salt and pepper to taste. Stir well and bring to a simmer. Garnish with a few thin slices of okra and serve.

Jasoos-E-Azam (Imran Series novel by Mazhar Kaleem)

Mazhar Kaleem's Imran Series is a series of Urdu spy novels written by Pakistani author Mazhar Kaleem within the classic Imran Series mythos created by Ibn-e-Safi.His first novel was Makazounka in which Kaleem first introduced the character of Captain Shakeel, who was transferred from Military Intelligence. It was published in the late 1960s. Each book in the series was a complete novel but some stories spanned over two or more books (for instance, Kaghzi Qayamat, Imran Ka Aghwa and others).The character of Ali Imran is a playful yet deceiving personality. He is a bright young Oxford graduate with M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry. His comical and apparently incompetent persona hides his identity as head of a secret service. The Imran Series explains the workings of a country's Secret Service that operates from the capital of an imaginary country called Pakasia. The Secret Service is administered by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Sir Sultan, who offers Imran the position as the Secret Service's head after getting personal help from him. In early books Imran appears as a solo detective, however, later he is portrayed as the chief of Secret Service as X-2.

After Ibn-e-Safi,s demise many people attempted to write Imran Series but no one could continuously produced this kind of Urdu books except Mazhar Kaleem. Kaleem produced more Imran series novels than Ibn-e-Safi and has a wide readership and huge number of fans. He has been writing these novels for the life time of Ibn-e-Safi and continuously produces Imran Series novels till date.

“Jasoos-E-Azamn” (Urdu: جاسوسِ اعظم) an amazing Imran Series novel by Mazhar Kaleem. Please note that you will have to have PDF Reader in order to read the novel after having it downloaded.

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