Breakfast for Corporate Dummies Sept 13 2007

"Breakfast for Corporate Dummies" is dedicated to all my bachelor friends working in the MNCs & BPOs, with no time for health and survive on pizzas.

I am going to give you guys some easy n healthy recipes, that hardly take time before you rush to work. Those working in odd and insane hours (which is most likely) can make 'em at any hour of the day.. or night.

Requirements: A kitchen with utensils, provisions and a stove

Here's my first one.

Pumpkin & Spinach Soup

Look around for:

De-skinned Pumpkin (the yellow one not white), its huge so ask the grocer to cut a slice for you
A medium sized onion
A tomato
Garlic Pods
A fat green Chilli
A bunch of Soft Greens (1 kattu Paalak, or ask keerakari for Sirikeera)
A spoonful of butter
Salt
Pepper

Start Cookin:

Take the first 5 on the list and chop them up into lumps and dump them in a pressure cooker with water. Don't forget the pressure knob and put it on the flame. Once you hear it screech take it off n let it cool. Make a blend of this in the mixer. Will look like baby goop.

Chop the Greens and saute (vanakarthu or jus ask mom) it with the butter and some salt. Plop the goop and the greens into a boiling pan (paal kasara kinnam will be perfect) and once its starts bubbling and splattering take it off. Add salt and pepper.

This is perfect with some toast (whole wheat bread makes crunchy toasts)