A quick and comforting tomato soup recipe...
Ingredients:
Cluster tomatoes- 2 lbs
Jeera- 1 tsp
Black pepper- 1 tsp
Dhaniya- 1 tsp
Cinnamon stick- 1-2
Rasam powder- 1 tbsp
Sugar- 2-3 tsp
Maida(optional)- 1/2 tsp
Cream(optional)- 1 tsp
Onion- 1/2 chopped
Garlic- 2-3 pods
Butter(optional)- a dollop
Croutons(optional)
Salt to taste
Method:
Wash the tomatoes thoroughly and pressure cook. After it cools down, puree it in a blender. Add the pureed tomatoes to a saucepan.
Coarsely grind jeera,black pepper, dhaniya,cinnamon stick. Put these spices, chopped onions and garlic in a spice bag. Drop the spice bag into the saucepan in the tomato puree. Keep it on a medium flame. Keep pressing the spice bag few times with a ladle so that the flavors of the spices will get infused to the soup. Let the tomato puree boil and come to the soup consistency. Add salt ,sugar and rasam powder.
If you want the soup to be thick, mix maida and water and add it to the soup. Bring it to boil, simmer for 5 mins and serve with a dollop of cream/butter/croutons.
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