Nisha Katona served up a tasty vegetable soup with dumplings (little sparrows) on Nisha Katona’s Home Kitchen.

The ingredients are: 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 2 cubes frozen crushed garlic or 6 garlic cloves, crushed, 2 large tomatoes, roughly chopped, 2 carrots, peeled and finely sliced, 1 parsnip, peeled and finely sliced, 1 tbsp paprika, 3 chicken stock cubes, crumbled, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 100g frozen peas and small handful parsley, leaves picked and chopped.

For the dumplings: 125g plain flour pinch of salt and 1 egg.

See recipes by Nisha in her book titled: 30 Minute Mowgli: Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen available from Amazon now.