Just like I mentioned in the Tuna Green Salad post, I am trying to get into the hang of having soup and salad for dinner once a week. I seriously don’t know why but at our new home (old by more than three months now!), I am still struggling to establish a routine! I really wonder why I am not able to manage. I still find it difficult to whip up a decent breakfast, or to get out of home on time so that I can reach office on time. Alhamdulillah, somehow I have been managing Azza’s morning timings, though at times the alarm fails to awaken me and I conveniently give her a holiday. The days this happens, Rasha would be in a jealousy fix. However, leaving that aside, mornings and evenings after work are always struggles. Sometimes, I feel I have done nothing and most of the time, that’s the case! At least, I have been able to make something or the other for dinner, but still can’t manage up energy to make chapathis or side breads and end up depending on store brought breads and khubbus. Maybe it is just about a bit of time management, but then… I don’t know! Still I feel, being a working mother, maybe I am managing it well… May be…
Adding one more to my small list of soups on the blog, which you can check out here to know… For those who love tomatoes, this soup is a good try. The flavors are tangy and very light to the stomach. What more, you can make it bulk and just freeze it, so when you are in a mood for some soup but not in a mood to cook, just thaw it and heat it and it is as good as new! I have tried it and I really loved it, though HD was like, “Why are you heating up that old soup???” Hehe… Recipe loosely adapted from here
Easy Tomato Soup
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 clove garlic crushed
- 1 onions sliced
- 1 medium carrot chopped
- 2 tsp tomato paste
- 750 gm tomatoes chopped into chunks
- 3 bay leaves shredded
- A pinch of sugar
- 1 tbsp black pepper powder
- 750 ml hot water
- 2 stock cubes
- Chopped coriander for garnish
Instructions
- In a pressure cooker, heat oil. Saute garlic briefly.
- Add the onions and carrots and saute for a couple of minutes.
- Add the tomato paste and saute till it coats.
- Now add in the rest of the ingredients and close the lid of the cooker.
- Cook for three whistles on medium flame. Switch off and allow the vapor to go on its own.
- Open the lid of the cooker and using a hand blender, blitz the cooked tomato mixture till smooth. Pass through a sieve into another bowl.
- Warm briefly, while adjusting sugar, salt and pepper before serving with coriander garnish.
Notes
This soup can be frozen for upto 3 months.
The soup is of flowing consistency. If you like yours a little thicker, then during the final warming, add in a slurry of cornflour (2 tbsp corn flour diluted in 1/2 cup of water would do) and cook till the soup thickens.
The soup is of flowing consistency. If you like yours a little thicker, then during the final warming, add in a slurry of cornflour (2 tbsp corn flour diluted in 1/2 cup of water would do) and cook till the soup thickens.
nice and warming soup
Thanks a lot Razina…
A Blissful and comfort food is soup indeed! Perfect for these chilly nights
Thank you so much Jyothi…
I love tomato soup with bread croutons. ….yummy ☺
Thank you so much Nusrath… 🙂
very apt for the season
Thanks a lot Babitha…
wow thats an delicious and yummy soup 🙂 perfect for the chilli weather dear, I want the bowl full now !!
Thank you so much Manjula… 🙂
Healthy soup can go any time during the day…
Thank you so much Amrita…
Best option for this winter…….. Very healthy and easy one to prepare 🙂
Thank you so much Remya… 🙂
Very soothing soup…perfect for the cold outside:)
Thank you so much Padma…. 🙂
This looks really good
Thanks a lot…
Healthy one Raf…..ini idakkide soups n salads pratheekshikkamle
Thanks a lot Shaami… InShaAllah, pratheekshikkaam….
Mmmm, this will come in handy when I have my tomato garden this summer! Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much Gingi…
lovely clicks rafee.Its been long since i made veg soup.have to try it.
Thank you so much Sathya…
Oh soup pass me please something I really need.
Thank you so much Meena…
I really require some soup to warm me up at this freezing temperatures here…looks yummy!!
Thank you so much Julie…
I am not a soup person, but lately have started liking them. Tomato soup is one I really like.. Looks very delicious.
Thank you so much Sona…
Healthy, filling and soothing tomato soup.
Thanks a lot Sanoli…
Addition of carrot sounds good… Looks nice
Thank you so much Gauri…
yummy soup.. if some one cld make it for me. wld love it
Thank you so much Kalpana,,,