Cream Of Tomato Soup, Indian Style

Cream of Tomato Soup Video by Tarla Dalal

1. cream of tomato soup | Indian style cream of tomato soup | creamy tomato soup  is a super delicious soup recipe, if you like the recipe given below are the links to similar veg soup recipes :
   • Cream of spinach soup
   • Cream of broccoli soup
   • Cream of potato soup 

1. To prepare cream of tomato soup | Indian style cream of tomato soup | creamy tomato soup, in a deep non-stick pan, take tomatoes. Firstly, make use of red ripe tomatoes to extract maximum flavours and not have a sour soup, next, wash and clean them & remove the eye before chopping them
   
2. Add 1 cup of water. Instead of water you can even make use of vegetable stock.
   
3. Add bayleaf.
   
4. Add peppercorns. I love tossing in some onions and garlic for an added flavour.
   
5. Mix well and cook on a medium flame for 8 to 10 minutes or until the tomatoes have softened and lost their raw aroma, while stirring occasionally.
   
6. After cooking, remove the bayleaf and discard it.
   
7. Allow the mixture to cool completely and transfer to a mixer jar
   
8. Blend the mixture in a mixer till smooth consistency
   
9. Strain it using a strainer to remove fibres and seeds from the tomatoes.
   
10. To prepare creamy tomato soup, heat the butter in a deep non-stick pan. Also, you can make use of oil or ghee but butter provides a rich flavour
    
11. Once the butter has melted, add the plain flour. You can also make use of whole wheat flour as a thickening agent.
    
12. Sauté on medium flame for 1 minute
    
13. Add the prepared tomato mixture
    
14. Pour 1 cup of water. You can add more or less water to attain a consistency of your desire but, generally cream soups are slightly thick.
    
15. Add tomato purée
    
16. Mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute
    
17. Add sugar. It helps in balancing the tanginess from tomatoes. You may require more or less depending upon the sourness of tomatoes.
    
18. Add salt and pepper. You can even flavour the soup with fresh basil or any other herbs of your choice like parsley, coriander, rosemary, sage.
    
19. Finally, some fresh cream. For a vegan cream of tomato soup, use oil instead of butter and blended almonds or cashews instead of fresh cream.
    
20. Mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally. Our cream of tomato soup | Indian style cream of tomato soup | creamy tomato soup is ready.
    
21. Pour the cream of fresh tomato soup in serving bowl and garnish with fresh cream.
22. Serve the creamy tomato soup hot with bread croutons.