Move over two-minute noodles and heat-and-eat meals. Soup mugs with detailed recipes are here to hot up your kitchen options. Just the acquisition for a bachelor?s pad, the colourful mugs sport easy-to-prepare recipes like chicken soup, mushroom soup and onion soup.

The look is as cool as the recipes, with the mugs available in white, yellow and blue. Shaped more like pitchers, the mugs have a broad base and narrow mouth with handles.

These make for ideal housewarming gifts, especially for those who like it all readymade.

The following are a few samples to get the meal going:

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• What Soup mugs with printed recipes • Where Giggles • How much Rs 110 per piece

Chicken Soup

1 small chicken; 3 to 4 pint water; salt and pepper; 1 onion; 1 bay leaf; 1 blade of mace.

Cream of Mushroom Soup

2 cups finely chopped mushroom; 4 tbs flour; ? tsp dry mustard; ? cup butter; ? cup whipped cream; ? cup finely-chopped chives; ? cup sherry; 1 tsp salt; 2 cups chicken broth.

Onion Soup

3 large onions; 1 ounce butter; 1 quart white stock; 1 clove; 1 bay leaf; 1 blade of mace; 1 ounce flour; ? pint milk; salt and pepper.

If you?re wondering why the method is missing, well, they?ve left the rest to your imagination. All we can guess is these are quick-fix solutions to a leisurely sip sojourn after a hard day?s grind.