Tomato Soup Recipe
Ingredients:
Tomatoes - 4
Garlic, crushed - 4 cloves
White pepper - 2 tbsp
Basil leaves - 2 (I used dry basil leaves powder)
Salt - to taste
Sugar - one pinch
Butter - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves - for garnishing
How I Made It:
1. Puree the tomatoes with salt.
2. Heat a kadai and add the butter. When it has melted, add the garlic, pepper and basil leaves and stir well for 10 seconds.
3. Add the pureed tomatoes and cook for some time, partly covered. You can sieve the tomato puree if required, I just removed the skin of the tomato before pureeing, that way its easier.
4. Adjust salt and spice, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.
This is a really simple recipe for tomato soup that I tried out on my own. Was pretty okay, but the frothing just wouldn't go off. Any suggestions on that, please pass it on.
Garlic Toast Recipe
What I Used:
Wheat bread - 3 slices, halved (Use any bread of your choice, baguette being the ideal one)
Salted butter, at room temperature - 3 tbsp
Garlic - 6 cloves
How I Made It:
I am not a huge fan of garlic chunks in the toast so I blended the butter and garlic nicely before spreading on the bread and toasting till golden brown. It was out of this world!
Passionate baker...& beyond
Great combo Nags...YUM YUM! Like the idea of the garlic & basil in the butter. I usually add just white pepper; this does sound different & delicious :0)
bhags
the garlic toasts look so crisp and savoury....
sunita
Nags, thanks for your lovely entry..as for the froth, like Sig said, try to skim it off the top with a spoon, especially while still cooking...hope it works.
Ramya's Mane Adige
oh, the garlic toast looks fab!!!! Love the color
Sagari
beautifulll pics nags they look very professional and comming to to garlic toast I can feel the crispiness of bread from pic wonderful combo , soup with garlic bread yummmmmmm
Namratha
What an awesome combo nags, love it!!
Sig
love that bowl...I was wondering why the tomato soup is white, so it is the froth? You can skim it off from the surface with a spoon.
maxdavinci
nice pics! never realised that it would be so simple, tried it out and was superb!
came here via gaya's blog...
keep comin on with such stuff for us poor NRI bachelors....
Rachel
nothing like a warm bowl of soup and hot garlic toast..simple yet very tempting!
Srivalli
ehmm...for a girl who lives on her own, you make such delicious food to enjoy!..both look lovely!