Tomato Soup
Tomato soup is a very common soup that you find in restaurants and its very easy to make it at home
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 4 medium sized tomatoes(400g)
- 1 medium sized big onion
- 1/2 grated carrot(100g)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 Kashmiri red chilly
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp cream(optional)
- 1 tsp sugar
- pepper powder, salt(as needed)
- water(as needed)
Instructions
- Heat up butter in a pan and add the bay leaf. Once it sizzles, add the chopped onion, garlic, and red chilly.
- When it gets fried add grated carrots, saute for a minute, and add the chopped tomatoes. Add 1/2 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of sugar and saute for a few minutes.
- Add water just enough to immerse the contents of the pan, cover, and cook well. You can opt to transfer the contents to a pressure cooker and cook for 1 whistle.
- Once the tomatoes are cooked, cool down, discard the bay leaf and blend smoothly in a mixer/blender.
- Strain into a saucepan and reheat adding salt pepper and sugar as is necessary.
- Once it comes close to a boil, add the cornflour slurry, made by mixing the cornflour in 1/4 cup of water.
- Simmer the flame and cook till it thickens. Add cream at this stage if you are adding. Switch off and serve hot with bread croutons.