Welcoming the winter, holiday season brings in so much happiness every year throughout the world. Who doesn't love having a hot soup watching festival decors during the winter holidays?? That is what exactly I am doing at this moment while I draft this post. This sumptuous soup is perfect for a cold evening with a fried snack or it can be a meal on its own.
I do not like adding too many ingredients in a soup. To me a soup is a comforting meal which has no strong ingredients in it. So I made it simpler but people who prefer using masalas can also add them. (Refer Notes)
Ingredients :
Serves: 2
Preparation time : 1 min
Cooking time : 20 mins
Tomatoes - 4 large
Garlic - 3 pods
Onion - 1 medium sized
Butter - 1 tsp
Maida - 1 tsp
Water - 1 cup
Preparation:
1. Chop onions, garlic and tomatoes roughly and keep it aside.
Method:
1. Heat a pressure cooker and add a tsp of butter. Add chopped onion and saute for a few seconds.
2. Add chopped garlic and saute for a min.
3. Add roughly chopped tomatoes and saute till they turn mushy.
4. Now add a cup of water and close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 1 whistle.
5. After it cools, puree it in a blender.
6. Strain the blended mixture in a strainer to remove the seeds.
7. In a pan, melt butter and add maida to it. Keep stirring continuously to avoid lump formation.
8. Now add in the strained soup, add salt and pepper and allow it to boil for a min.
Notes :
1. You can add cream and bread croutons to make it a restaurant style tomato soup. It is purely optional as people who are health conscious can avoid adding cream.
2. If you do not have a pressure cooker you can also boil the tomatoes in an open pan.
3. Adding maida is only to thicken the soup. If you like the soup to be watery you can avoid the addition of maida.
4. Do not forget to strain the blended mixture to strain the seeds and the pulp of tomatoes.
5. If you want to add masalas to the soup to make it even more flavorful, you can add whole garam masalas/ a tsp of garam masala powder after step 7 and saute and continue with step 8.
I do not like adding too many ingredients in a soup. To me a soup is a comforting meal which has no strong ingredients in it. So I made it simpler but people who prefer using masalas can also add them. (Refer Notes)
Tomatoes:
1. A substance called lycopene, which is responsible for tomatoes red color, is thought to be the reason for this cancer protective effect.
2. Tomatoes are high in important antioxidants such as vitamin C and Vitamin A.
3. Tomatoes contain important nutrients, such as niacin, folate and vitamin B6, that have associated with the reduction of heart disease risk.
4. Another study showed that drinking 8 ounces of tomato juice daily, reduced platelet aggregation significantly, among study subjects.
Ingredients :
Serves: 2
Preparation time : 1 min
Cooking time : 20 mins
Tomatoes - 4 large
Garlic - 3 pods
Onion - 1 medium sized
Butter - 1 tsp
Maida - 1 tsp
Water - 1 cup
Preparation:
1. Chop onions, garlic and tomatoes roughly and keep it aside.
Method:
1. Heat a pressure cooker and add a tsp of butter. Add chopped onion and saute for a few seconds.
2. Add chopped garlic and saute for a min.
3. Add roughly chopped tomatoes and saute till they turn mushy.
4. Now add a cup of water and close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 1 whistle.
5. After it cools, puree it in a blender.
6. Strain the blended mixture in a strainer to remove the seeds.
7. In a pan, melt butter and add maida to it. Keep stirring continuously to avoid lump formation.
8. Now add in the strained soup, add salt and pepper and allow it to boil for a min.
Notes :
1. You can add cream and bread croutons to make it a restaurant style tomato soup. It is purely optional as people who are health conscious can avoid adding cream.
2. If you do not have a pressure cooker you can also boil the tomatoes in an open pan.
3. Adding maida is only to thicken the soup. If you like the soup to be watery you can avoid the addition of maida.
4. Do not forget to strain the blended mixture to strain the seeds and the pulp of tomatoes.
5. If you want to add masalas to the soup to make it even more flavorful, you can add whole garam masalas/ a tsp of garam masala powder after step 7 and saute and continue with step 8.
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I have a doubt ... I can't find maida here abroad ... Is 'Multi-purpose' flour or 'All purpose' flour similar to 'Maida' ??
ReplyDelete@javid In India, super refined wheat flour is called maida. This flour is used to make a wide variety of food items like puri, chappathi, parotta, etc. Maida is sometimes referred to as "All purpose flour" also. So you can use all purpose flour that you get there.
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