Tomato Soup

Serves: 2 – 3	Time: 45mins approx.
Ingredient ½ kg (4 plum ) tomatoes chopped 1 large onion chopped 2tsp cumin seeds 2-3 cloves of garlic crushed ½ cup celery chopped 75 gm butter 4-5 basil leaves 1/3 cup capsicum chopped Salt to taste Black pepper freshly grounded Fresh cream Corriander chopped for garnishing Croutons (optional)

Procedure

1. Heat a large vessel on medium flame. Add 50gm of butter to it with 1tsp of oil.
2. Once the butter melts add the cumin seeds and garlic. Saute for 2 mins.
3. Then add onion and saute until it becomes translusant.
4. Add capsicum & celery. Saute them with onions for 5mins
5. When they are semi-cooked, add tomatoes to it and cook for 5mins more.
6. Then pour 4 cups of water to it and bring it to boil. While the water is boiling add basil to it.
7. Cover the vessel and cook it for 10mins or until tomatoes are cooked.
8. Once they are cooked turn off the heat and keep it aside for 5 mins to cool.
9. Grind that mixture in a grinder and then drain the mixture using a strainer to seperate the liquid from the pulp.
10. We can keep the pulp aside & then add 1 tbsp of it to the soup to get some thickness. (Optional)
11. Heat another vessel and add the remaining butter to it. Add 1tb sp of maida or 1tb sp of corn flour to the butter and saute for a min.
12. Add the drained soup to the vessel and bring it to boil.
13. Once the soup is thicken, add cream to it.
14. Season the soup with salt and pepper. Then turn off the heat and soup is ready to serve.
15. Serve the soup with some more cream and garnish it with corriander.

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