Today is the last day of Blogging Marathon #26 Week 1 and for the past two day I have been posting soup and salad recipes. For the third day I prepared this soup according to the theme to cook with a vegetable. Whenever we visit our favourite restaurant- Temple City, the first thing we order is the tomato soup. I have tasted tomato soup in many restaurants but only at Temple City the soup is very delicious. My daughter is a great fan of this soup. I have tried many times to prepare this at home but anyhow I could never nail the taste. When I saw the recipe at Sharmis Passions, I was interested with the recipe. So today I prepared this soup and it tasted just like the soup we order at Temple City. I altered the recipe a little and it tasted awesome.
Ingredients:
Tomato-2
Onion-1
Clove-2-3 pods
Cinnamon-1 stick
Beetroot-a small piece
Salt-to taste
Pepper Powder-1/4 tsp
Cumin Powder-1/4 tsp
Pudina Powder-1/4 tsp
Corn Flour-1-1 1/2 tsp
Butter-1 tbs
Croutons-To Serve
Procedure:
1. In a pan add water and tomatoes. Bring it to boil.
2. Allow it to boil for 10 minutes.
3. Remove from water allow the tomatoes to cool. Peel away the skin.
4. In a pressure cooker add the tomatoes, garlic, onion, cloves, cinnamon and beetroot.
5. Add 1 cup of water and pressure cook for 5 minutes.
6. After the pressure is released, open the cooker and remove the cloves and cinnamon.
7. Blend it to a smooth puree.
8. Transfer to a bowl.
9. Heat butter in a pan and add corn flour.
10. When colour changes add the pureed tomato, pepper powder, cumin powder, salt and pudina powder.
11. Adjust the consistency of the soup by adding water if necessary.
12. Bring the soup to boil.
13. Simmer and let it boil for 5 minutes.
14. Serve hot with croutons and crackers.
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Yummy !!! Love the colour of the soup 🙂
yummy and healthy soup.
luv the color of the soup….yummy
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Ilove not only the colour but the flavours of the soup.
truly restaurant style, thick and inviting esp with the crouton garnish!
Tempting healthy soup
Love the colour Gayathri..Looks very inviting!
beautiful color, and indeed restaurant style
I’ve never been a huge fan of tomato soup – I find it very acidic but with the natural sugar from the beet that would balance the acid – I think I might like your version!
Wowww… mouthwatering here.. love it 🙂
Ah the bright red color is due to beet root…. Looks very bright and tempting.
delicious and refreshing tomato soup. loved its color.
Totally drooling here !!! This looks amazing 🙂
wow wow …. looking super perfect and super tempting… oh that color!!! why did u keep the dice in the picture – looks so cute but I am curious as to where u got that idea!!!
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Ah….so the trick to the beautiful colour is the small piece of beet…nice one.
Looks yummy , Love the colour of the soup
Wat a healthy,colourful and delicious soup, love to have atleast once a week.
Restaurant-ish indeed. Lovely colors
our family’s favourite soup!
my family’s fav ! never fails to please us.. lovely pics, esp the cute lil kitchen towel under the bowl 🙂
Nice one beet root adds color right, love to taste it.
Wow, what colour! Will add beet root next time I make tomato soup. 🙂
I have seen this addition of beetroot in one of the cookbooks. I thought it was interesting, but I never got around making it.
The soup looks really good!
A delicious one. I too sometimes add beet for color but never tried pudina powder. Sounds interesting.
Love the addition of beets. Soup looks hearty & yummy. Lovely presentation.
Colorful soup Gayathri.Loved the addition of beets.Any significance of the dice in the picture??Just noticed it when I was gazing though your crackers…
Shylaja and Sowmya, those are not dice. They are dice shaped salt pepper shakers I got from Reader’s Digest long back. You can see it in my soup photos…
Awww!!! those are salt n Pepper shakers!!! so cute!!!! Love the color of the soup dear!!! very inviting!!! 🙂
Awesome…. Tomato soup is my fav… Love it
Super cool!! That is a good idea of adding beets for the deep red color!
love the deep red color of the soup! so inviting 🙂 Also the little salt and pepper shakers are so cute 🙂
Looks really good because of the colour, nice idea to add beets too..:)
with beet in it, it looks like a very healthy soup.I love the way you have presented it.