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Cream of Tomato Soup is a popular winter treat when vegetables are available in plenty. It is ideal for the cold winter nights.
Appetisers are anything, food and drink that are served before the food, which are considered to increase the pangs of hunger. These are usually served during parties and it can include a whole array of juices, soups and tasty snacks which are usually eaten in just a few nibbles. This “Appetisers” marks a new category in my blog. Today I present to you “Cream of Tomato Soup”.
Tomato Soup is the most cherished and the oldest ever known soup to us. It is a classic soup which you can serve for any occasion, be it a party or just a get-together.
The making of soup involves three steps.
Boiling of vegetables
Extracting of pulp
Making of the soup
When you boil the vegetables, never discard the water. It is rich in nutrients, you can add it later in the soup. To extract the pulp, you need a blener or a grinder and a metal sieve, neither too small or big.
cream of tomato soup
Ingredients :
12 tomato
4 onion
1 pod garlic
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup fresh cream
salt to taste
water
1 teaspoon pepper powder
bread croutons
Method :
Wash the tomatoes. Cut them into halves. Chop the onions into cubes. Peel the garlic cloves. Put all these veggies in a thick bottomed pan and boil with sufficient quantity of water. Peel the skin of the tomatoes and put them in a processor along with other veggies.
Take a sieve and pass through it. Repeat the procedure.You can do it two or three times. Depending on the consistency, add water to the pulp.
Keep it to boil. Add salt, sugar and pepper powder to it. Finally, add cream to it and remove from fire.
Take a tip :
Use firm, red tomatoes.
Bread croutons are made by tossing the pieces in ghee or oil. Alternatively, you can put them in an air fryer.
About the event :
Sending this to Foodies _Redoing Old Post _144. It is a fortnightly event, a group of bloggers work together on an old post, it can either be by fixing with a better picture or adding more text. Sometimes, we do multiple things. Here, I have changed the pictures, the recipe remains the same.
Cream of Tomato Soup
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Tomato Soup is a winter treat. The addition of cream makes it tasty and creamy.
Wash the tomatoes. Cut them into halves. Chop the onions into cubes. Peel the garlic cloves. Put all these veggies in a thick bottomed pan and boil with sufficient quantity of water. Peel the skin of the tomatoes and put them in a processor along with other veggies.
Take a sieve and pass through it. Repeat the procedure.You can do it two or three times. Depending on the consistency, add water to the pulp.
Keep it to boil. Add salt, sugar and pepper powder to it. Finally, add cream to it and remove from fire.
Notes
Use large, firm, red tomatoes.
Bread croutons are made by tossing the pieces in ghee or oil. Alternatively, you can put them in an air fryer.
