Celestial Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• Button mushrooms: 8-10 nos.
• Capsicum: 1 medium
• Carrot: 1 medium
• Sweet corn niblets: 2 tbsps.
• Green peas: ½ cup
• Red chilies, crushed:  ½ tsp.
• Sugar: a pinch
• Salt: to taste
• Egg white: 1 no.
• Corn flour: 2 tbsps

Method:

1. Wash and cut mushrooms into four. Peel and cut carrots into ¼ inch pieces. Wash capsicum, halve, deseed and cut into ¼ inch pieces. Reserve a little for garnish.
2. Boil carrots and green peas in vegetable stock or water. Keep aside.
3. Dissolve corn flour in ½ cup water. Beat egg white lightly. Keep aside.
4. Heat oil, add mushroom pieces and sauté, then add capsicum pieces and sauté.
5. Add boiled carrot pieces, corn niblets and vegetable stock or water and mix.
6. Add salt, sugar and crushed red chilies. Add (frozen) green peas and mix.
7. When the mixture begins to boil add corn flour dissolved in water and mix well.
8. Finally add the beaten egg white, stir lightly and serve hot garnished with chopped capsicum.