Homemade tomato soup that can be made in 2 different ways( and with vegan options too). Both are creamy and delicious comfort food that we rather not miss.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time40 minutesmins
Course: Appetizer, Appetizers-Starters
Cuisine: World
Keyword: Comfort food, Soup, Soup from the Scratch, Tomato Recipes
Use only the the tomatoes, onions, carrots if using and 6 garlic cloves and chop them up. If you make smaller bits you will need lesser time. I made big pieces of the tomato and smaller ones of the rest of carrots and onions.
Roasting in OTG:
Arrange in a pan and sprinkle 2 teaspoon oil, a pinch of salt and pepper.
Roast at 180C/350F for 25-30 minutes or till golden in an oven.
Cool and grind.
Stovetop Roasting
To roast in a skillet on the stovetop keep an eye on the ingredients.
After about 7-8 minutes on medium flame flip the ingredients and roast on the other side too. This time you will need say about 5-6 minutes.
Cool and grind.
In the pressure cooker
Cook the tomatoes, onions, carrots, ginger 6 cloves garlic and 3 pepper corns for 2 whistles. Let the pressure drop naturally.
Cool and grind.
There was a time I strained the and discard the fibre because kiddo wanted it so. You can do it too I rather use entire puree as it is.
Add 2 teaspoon butte/oil in a thick pan add the garlic and till light golden brown. Mash them up.
Add the tomato puree, add 2 cups of water, sugar, salt, pepper, herbs. Bring to a boil.
Rather than use any thickner I prefer to adjust the amount of water I use. You can use cornflour, pureed potatoes either individually or together.
Switch off the flame and mix a little cream, milk in a bowl, gently add the hot soup and stir well. Add some more soup slowly and mix.
When the mixture in the bowl is warmer mix the contents of the bowl in the soup. Mix well.
Serve hot garnished with butter.
You can also add bread fried in oil but I prefer to toast them in the grill.
To make a vegan soup grind the cashew nuts with the tomato.
Notes
The other thickness you can use are
Potato starch,
arrowroot,
cashew nuts,
boiled and grated potato.
My mothers favourite was coconut milk.
To make the soup vegan avoid the butter and cream and milk. Use Potato or cashew nuts The potatoes I will grate and cashew nuts grind with the tomatoes.