Tomato Soup ...Super simple!

Tomato Soup

I made some pretty good tomato soup and I was amazed at how simple this recipe really is. Anushka gave me this awesome recipe. The ingredients below are for 3 servings, so you'll have to adjust accordingly.

Ingredients:

• 15 Tomatoes
• 1 Potato
• 1 Onion
• 2 Carrots
• 2 cups of water
• 3 Tblsp Sugar
• 2 Tsp Salt
• Freshly ground Black Pepper
• 3 slices of bread and some Oil (for the croutons)

Before we begin, I want to mention that you will need 2 specific things - an electric mixer-grinder and a sieve. 

To start with, wash the vegetables well and roughly chop them in chunks - for instance, I chop the tomatoes in 4 chunks. Add these to a pressure cooker, add the salt and water. Cook this on high heat until the first whistle. Then, turn the heat to low and heat for 15 minutes further. Then, take the cooker off heat.

Once the pressure is released, transfer the boiled vegetables to the mixer-grinder, and grind the vegetables well till it turns into a pasty consistency. It is advisable to just add the vegetables to the grinder and not the water from the cooker as well. If you pour the entire mixture from the cooker into the grinder, water tends to flow in and this doesn't help the grinder.

You want to transfer the resultant mixture onto a sieve with a large bowl beneath it as shown in the image below. Slowly run a spoon in a circular fashion on the sieve, so that resultant soup drips into the bowl below. At this time, also add the water from the cooker onto the sieve so it passes into the bowl below. This way we do not lose any nutrients.

 

You basically have your soup in the bowl - but we now will simmer this soup for about 10 minutes on low heat. This is time to adjust salt and sugar. Once you have the desired consistency, turn off the heat. I usually sprinkle some fresh black pepper to add that extra zing.

For the croutons, slice the bread into a 4 x 3 matrix and fry these pieces until golden brown. Serve them with steaming hot soup and some grilled cheese sandwiches.