How to make Drumstick pod soup and know its benefits

Moringa / Drumstick is a power packed food for any given day. Preparing soup with it is really awesome both in taste and energy.

Whenever we make Moringa stir fry, the soup follows it by default. The main reason is that we get the drumstick boiled water as base broth for the soup.

Moringa pods have lot of nutrients and hot soup with it helps us soothing sore throat.

This whole plant is useful to human in many ways. From its root, stem, leaves and pods to flower, every part of it are useful and has medicinal benefits.

Knowing it, our older generation people have made use of them in a good manner.

When we have cold and flu, this soup comes for rescue in vegetarian ways. We wanted to avoid non-veg for these days of purattasi, a tamil month, in which most of Hindus follow pure vegetarian cuisine. I started getting seasonal flu, cold and cough following my husband.

Surely we needed this soup to sooth our cough. So, straight with drumsticks stir fry, soup was ready.

Health benefits of Drumstick pods soup

Apart from the hot soup helps in cold times, drumstick pods alone has lot of health benefits.

1. Moringa pods with its seeds are rich in nutrients like zinc, fibre, iron, calcium and anti-cancerous.
2. As it is great source of zinc, it can play great role in regulating blood-sugar levels.
3. The rich fibre in it is good for digestive system.
4. It is one of most important iron source for vegetarians.
5. The calcium in it helps reduce the joint pains and avoid arthritis.
6. Some even say that it helps in reducing the bad cholesterol.
7. It is rich in Vitamin A, B, C too.
8. As it has got antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, regular consumption improves the skin and overall health.

Drumstick pods soup recipe

Let’s me present the method we prepare this soup. I have added video here for visual demo.

Required ingredients

Step-by-step pictures of Morniga Soup preparation

1. Add the chopped drumsticks in boiling water with required salt and cook until it turns soft.
   
2. Drain the water and take flesh from 1 drumstick. Keep aside.
   
3. In a kadai, add oil then add spring onion if you use. Add garlic pieces and saute for few seconds.
4. Add curry leaves and chopped shallots and saute until onion turns brown.
   
5. Add ginger garlic paste or finely chopped ginger pieces and saute for a minute.
6. Now add the drumstick flesh and mash it with a ladle. Then add drumstick boiled water,
   
7. Add turmeric powder, cumin powder and pepper powder. Bring to boil.
8. Switch off after the turmeric’s raw smell goes off.
   
9. Garnish with coriander leaves.
10. Transfer to serving bowl. Add salt and lemon juice as per your taste and serve hot.
    

Notes: I have boiled 5 drumsticks to prepare drumstick stir fry and used the drumstick boiled water to prepare the soup. Whenever you drumstick stir fry, you can also prepare this soup.

If you are not intended to make drumstick stir fry but you want to make only the soup, then boil 1 or 2 drumstick’s pieces as per your requirement in 2 cup of water and then use the same water to make the soup.

I hope that this post is useful for you. If you try it, share your experience and ideas here.

Take care and stay safe. Will see you soon with another interesting post soon.