Serves 4

Ingredients:

• Spinach (palak) – 2 big bucnhes/ Two 250 g bags
• 2 small celery sticks
• 1 small potato
• 1 tsp of olive oil or 1 tsp of butter
• 1/2 tsp Ground black pepper
• salt to taste
• 3/4 litre of water
• 3/4 cup of single cream

Procedure:

• Prepare the vegetables
  • Wash and peel potato and cube them.
  • Wash the spinach leaves a couple of times and then chop them.
  • Wash and chop the celery sticks into small cubes.
• In a medium sized saucepan add olive oil / butter and heat on medium heat.
• To the oil/ butter add potato and celery and cook them. Add water to the above and boil till soft.
• Add spinach (spinach is always added at the last as it doesn’t require a lot of time to cook like the other vegetables). As the spinach hits the heat it start to give out a lot of water.
• Add salt and ground black pepper.
• Once the spinach is cooked, remove from heat and let it cool for a few minutes
• Blend with the help of a blender.
• Garnish with single cream.
• Serve hot to Lord Krishna and enjoy his Prasadam.

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 10 – 12 Large tomatoes
• 1 – 2 large carrots
• 3/4 single cream
• 1 celery stick (optional)
• 1 red bell pepper (optional)
• 1 tsp olive oil
• salt to taste
• 1 tsp ground black pepper
• 1 litre water

Procedure:

• Blanch the tomatoes – Put the tomatoes into boiling water and leave them for few minutes till the skin cooks and leaves the tomato. At this stage remove the tomatoes and put them in cold water. Peel off the skin and use the tomato flesh for the recipe.
• Prepare the vegetables – wash , peel and cut the carrot into cubes.
  If you are using celery and bell pepper, wash and cube them too.
• In a medium sized sauce pan, add olive oil and heat it on medium heat. To this add all the prepared vegetables except tomatoes and roast them for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Now add the softened tomatoes to the above vegetables and followed by salt, ground black pepper and water. Cover and bring to boil and continue until all the vegetables are soft.
• Once soft remove from the heat and let it cool for a few minutes and  blend them with the help of a blender.
• Add the single cream on top for garnish.
• Serve them hot with croutons or as it is to Lord Krishna and enjoy His Prasadam.