Creamy Chicken Mushroom Soup

Cold and rainy days like these call for some soup to warm you up, not any soup, a creamy mushroom soup with chicken pieces, doesn't that sound yum. This quick and easy dish are not only a family favourite, friends have been asking me for the recipe, but when the chats continued we kept on forgetting. It's not like I didn't want to share it ladies :)

So initially this was a meatless mushroom soup recipe, but after the second attempt I decided to add some chicken strips and ever since that time I couldn't dare make it without the chicken because my family loves it like that. So it can be served as a starter or a main.

Okay so lets start with the ingredients you'll need and directions on how to make it, maybe it will become your favourite too.

Ingredients
500g mushrooms
90g butter
2 medium onions chopped
1 clove garlic
2 tablespoons cake flour
1 litre chicken stock
1 sprig of tyme
I bay leave
Half a cup fresh cream
salt + pepper
you can also add :
add 15ml balsamic vinegar
15ml lemon juice
2,5 ml rosemary

Directions
Wipe mushrooms / chop up
Chop onions
Put chicken stock to heat in a separate pan.
In a large pan cook onions thyme, rosemary and crushed garlic in butter over a medium heat, until they are soft and translucent but not browned. Add lime juice and balsamic vinegar.
Add mushrooms, raise heat & cook, stirring frequently,  3min.
Sprinkle flour over the mushrooms and stir it so that it coats the mushrooms,  then cook, stir constantly for another minute. Add chicken pieces, cut in strips or cubes totally up to you.
Salt + pepper.
Pour hot chicken stock over the mushrooms and bring back to boil, add bay leave and reduce heat.
Add the fresh cream. Cook for a few minutes.

Serve hot and enjoy :)

xoxo
Nadia

Recipe: Stuffed Peppers

Hey beautiful people, today I'm going to share a quick and easy stuffed pepper recipe. Being Muslim and having to eat Halaal food has made me a DIY Foodie. Well I stay in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town and here's not much Halaal places besides the usual Mc Donalds, KFC etc. So when I crave something I make it, if I don't have the recipe I Google it, add what ever I want and Whalla...

Ingredients : 

4 Bell Peppers

1 to 2 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce 

1 to 2 cups grated Cheese ,can use more

Cream Cheese as preferred 

Coarse Black Pepper 

Pinch Salt 

Directions:

Cut Peppers in half lengthwise, remove seeds and rinse clean. Boil peppers for 5 minutes. Drain and rinse in cold water, set aside.

In a bowl mix cream cheese, cheddar cheese ,Worcestershire sauce salt and pepper together and spoon in the peppers.

I added mince and some cheese on top. Anything can be added from chicken to broccoli, sausage, mince ,peppers can be fried as well.

Bake for 400°  for 5-10 minutes or until cheese is melted, I left mine a little longer because both me and hubby love it so.

I served it with roast veg and fillet chicken with a spicy barbeque sauce, you can add wedges or what ever you feel.

There's obviously different and more fancier ways to make it,but this is quick & easy for the working mom that wants to make something quick for supper. :)

                                                                                                                                                              

Enjoy 

Xoxo Nadia SS 

Thank you for reading and keep Shining ♡ 

Creamy Butternut Soup

Slms and Hello,hope everyone is doing good, and to those fasting hope Ramadaan is going great .The fast is going very well my side, ma sha Allah.
Who would've believe we fasted thirteen days already, geez, half of the month already past us.
 In my previous Ramadaan post I said I'll be posting easy recipes, I know alot of people can cook but to those that can't, those that just got married or staying alone, or what ever reason ,we all started somewhere, I'll be honest when I got married I couldn't really cook, but today I get compliments all the time for my cooking, hehe.
So this is my very first time doing a post on cooking or recipe giving so to say, I have no idea how its supposed to be done, I'm just doing it my way. Keep in mind the recipes are not my own, its recipes I've collected over the years, from people, books, over the radio, online, I take recipes where ever I can and try it out, if I like the way it came out l make it again and again.

So we starting with a easy *Creamy Butternut Soup* , It's winter and its Ramadaan so what a better recipe to start with.
A friend always asked me how you get your food so delicious so I told her I always start by saying 'Bismillah' (in the name of Allah) before I start cooking or do anything and then she started doing it too and she's not even Muslim (laughing). So let us begin by saying  Bismillah *

Ingredients
20ml Oil
10ml butter or margarine
1 large onion, finely chopped
500g butternut,  peeled and cubed
1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
2ml turmeric
5m curry powder
2ml ground cinnamon
3-5ml salt (or to taste)
5ml sugar
750ml water or vegetable stock
125ml milk
125ml fresh cream

Method
Heat oil and butter in a large pot over medium heat.
Add onion and sauté until golden.
Add butternut, potato and spices.
Toss for 2 minutes until well coated.
Add salt, sugar and water.
Bring to boil, then cover and allow to simmer gently - approximately 25 minutes - until vegetables are soft. Allow to cool.
Puree mixture, with milk, in a liquidiser until smooth.  Return mixture to pot and gently  reheat.Add cream.
Do not boil.
(Serve garnished with chopped chives and crusty bread.)

In Ramadan we love our savouries-,samosas ,halfmoons spring rolls etc so we enjoyed our soup with that and you can even serve with rolls,(very easy recipe I got from Facebook) takes about 20min to make, will post that nxt.

Hope you'll enjoy your soup. :)

Xoxo Nadia SS ♡