Spicy Indian Tomato Soup
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| Wed, 01-19-2005 - 8:43am |
The original recipe is in the SBD cookbook, page 88. This version is from the second time I made it, and is a slight variation. Both versions are ok for all phases.
Ingredients:
2 or 3 large tomatoes, blanched, peeled, cored, and diced
Splash of olive oil
Splash of hot sauce
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp curry powder
1 onion, minced (I used a leftover leek, turned out great)
2 cups baby spinach leaves
6 cups vegetable stock
1 tbsp tomato paste
1. Heat the oil and hot sauce over medium heat. Add garlic and minced onion, stir into oil and sauce mixture until the garlic starts to brown.
2. Add tomatoes and spices. Stir for about 5 minutes until tomatoes begin to cook down. Add spinach leaves and stir until wilted.
3. Add vegetable stock and tomato paste, stir until paste is dissolved. Let cook about 5 minutes, covered.
4. Ladle about 3/4 of the soup into a blender (try to get as many of the vegetables out as you can) and pulse until smooth. Add back into the broth in the pot and stir.
5. Enjoy with anything you would normally serve with tomato soup!
Shan

Thanks Shan this really sounds yummy.
Susan :)
Now that I think about it, it is kind of a hybrid taste...to me, plain tomato soup tastes sweet, this soup has more of a kick to it. Adding the spinach this second time around does give it a little more of a vegetable taste, but your primary flavor is definitely tomato. Blending it gave it more of a tomato soup texture, the first time around I left the tomatos chunky. I like it better now that I blended it, because it has a more traditional texture, TG liked it better chunky. The taste is the same, it's just a matter of preference.
I did blanch and attempt to peel the tomatos, lol. The peeling wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but if it doesn't come off the first time it's not coming off, I've discovered, so a couple of little pieces still had their skin, it didn't seem to affect them too much so I think you could probably do it either way.
Hope that helps!
Shan