Home style Chicken Soup

Chicken soup: 
Very good for cold weather. If your throat is infected or have cold, this is such a soothing thing to have. It has all good spices in it and is also good for newly delivered mom.
You can also substitute vegetables for chicken, but I personally like it with chicken.

Ingredients :
Chicken - 1 lb
Pepper - 2 tsp
Toor dhal - 2 tsp
Coriander seeds - 3 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
Onion - 1/2 medium size
Tomato - 3/4 medium size
Curry leaves - few

Method :
1. Dry fry pepper, fennel seeds, toor dhal, coriander seeds. Grind it to fine powder.

2. Cut onion and tomato.

3. In a pan add oil and fry onion and tomato and when it fried, add ginger garlic paste and fry until raw smell goes.

4. Grind it into a fine paste.

5. In a pan add oil and when it is hot, add curry leaves.

6. Add chicken and fry for few minutes.

7. Add onion tomato paste and the dry powder and a cup of water and let it boil.

8. Let it boil until chicken is cooked.

Switch  off the flame and nice hot soup is ready.

This can also be had with rice.

Enjoy the joy of cooking.