Tomato Soup | Thakkali Soup | Soup Recipe

Tomato Soup, a quick and easy to make soup with tomatoes. Though we don't have the habit of having soup at our home regularly, once in a while, i prepare this tomato soup along with some sandwich or panini.

Yep, that is a combination inspired from panera bread combo menu. As temperature is dropping here now, these combination is our absolute favorite to have it as dinner or as lunch on those cool days.

 
Here in the soup recipe, i haven't use any cream at all and make it as very lighter as per our liking. But if you like rich tomato soup, instead of maida mixture, you can use heavy cream, that will make it as more like restaurant soup.

Tomato Soup

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Soup | Recipe Cuisine: General
Creamy Tomato Soup, Tomato Soup, Easy Tomato Soup Tomato Soup, a quick and easy to make soup with tomatoes, perfect for cold winter nights.

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Ingredients
Tomato - 4
Garlic - 2
Butter - 1 tbsp
Bay leaf - 1
Maida/All purpose flour - 2 tsp
Milk - 2 tbsp
Beetroot - 1 inch small piece
Pepper powder - to taste
Salt - to taste
Italian seasoning - to taste(optional)

Procedure

Wash and take the tomato, cut a cross on both sides of the tomatoes. Heat a pressure cooker with butter.

Add the garlic and bay leaves ,saute till aromatic. Then add the tomatoes and saute in butter for 1 min.

Then add enough water and small pieces of beetroot(forget to take pic of that),cover the pressure cooker with lid  and cook it for 3 whistle.

Let it cool a bit, then remove the skin of the tomatoes & bay leaf and put it in the blender and grind into smooth paste.

Transfer the tomato puree into the pan along with the leftover cooked water from the tomatoes(if needed add more water at this stage),mix it well. Put it on flame and then add required salt.

Let it bring to boil, in the mean time, mix the maida with milk without any lumps and add into the soup and mix well.

Add pepper powder to taste, mix well. Let it simmer for few more mins and switch off the flame.

That's it, Soothing Tomato Soup is ready. Sprinkle some italian seasoning on top while serving.

Related: How to make Panini Sandwich

Notes:

• Beetroot gives bright color to the soup.
• Maida helps to thicken the soup, so add more or less of maida depends on the thickness you want.