Tomato Soup

There is nothing like a steaming hot bowl of tomato soup with croutons (Oh Boy! that is the must thing with tomato soup) on a cool windy night. Wow, Soups makes the winters bearable and pleasurable.

Ingredients

• 4 Red Tomatoes
• 2 Carrots
• 1 onion
• 1/2 Beet Root
• 3 cloves of garlic
• Ginger
• 1 boiled potato
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp sugar
• salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp cream (optional)

• Cut tomatoes, carrots, onion, beet root and garlic in a big chunks.
• Pressure cook vegetables with 4 cups of vegetable stock or water salt and bay leaf.
• Once vegetables are done keep it aside to cool down.
• Fish out the bay leaf at this point and put everything in a grinder with a boiled potato and sugar.
• Grind it until smooth.
• Now give it a boil in a pan stirring constantly (Taste it if acidic add more sugar) Just before serving add cream in it.
• Serve hot with croutons(as many as u want), Pepper (straight from the grinder) and coriander leaf on top.

This recipe is also going for a SWC:Soups event hosted by Neha of TASTY RECIPES