Tomato soup recipe Rich bursting bright red colored tomato soup always tempts us. It would be a delicious sip with cheese biscuits/ cheese sandwich/ bread toast with butter.
Tomato has a lot of health benefits Tomatoes reduce heart diseases, a great source of vitamins and other nutrients, good for skin, prevents cancer, improves eyesight, good for hair, maintains blood pressure.
Here I have added carrot and beetroot with tomatoes for increasing the color, altogether gives you highly nutritious soup.
Alternatives for tomato soup recipe:
- I have added carrot and beetroot to make up the soup more nutritious if you want you can skip
- Instead of adding corn flour-water mixture, you can add 2, 3 potato wedges while pressure cooking the tomatoes for thickening
- you can use a hand blender to blend the cooked tomatoes
- Sometimes tomatoes (like desi tomato) would be a more sour taste, in that case, you can add a little bit of sugar to balance it
Things to be taken care in tomato soup recipe:
- Especially, using well-riped tomatoes will give you good taste.
- Always take care of the amount of salt to add in the soup, because soup does need only less salt, I have added less than 1 tsp of salt
- Add pepper while serving
Let’s see Tomato soup recipe
Ingredients
Method
- To start, in a pressure cooker, heat the butter, put bay leaf, garlic, onion saute for 3 minutes
- Add carrot and beetroot pieces into it and saute for a minute
- put the tomatoes in
- Pour 1 cup of water, cover the lid, pressure cook for 3 whistles
- In a bowl, take 1 tsp of cornflour with little water, mix it without lumps
- When the pressure releases, open the lid, take off the bay leaf, let the tomato mixture cool.
- Strain the tomato mixture, reserve the tomato stock, blend it into a smooth paste,
- Pour the blended tomato paste into strainer, mix it well with a spoon to extract the pulp
- Heat the filtered tomato mixture
- Pour the corn starch and mix it
- bring to a boil
- Add salt and sugar
- Add pepper while serving
- Cut the bread into square shape
- In a pan, add 1 tbsp of butter
- Toast the bread in medium flameNow the tomato soup and bread toast is ready
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Tomato soup recipe
Meanwhile, dissolve 1tsp of cornflour with little bit water and keep aside
For toasting bread:
Now the tomato soup and also bread toast are ready
Note:
- Adding coriander leaves is optional so you can add basil leaves alternatively at the end instead of coriander leaves
- Fresh cream can be used for garnishing as well as that.
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