Description
This tomato soup is made out of tomato and toor dhal . this style is from chennai / madras. | Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 1 no | Lemon |
| 4 tsp | Pepper and cumin powder (increase or decrease according to taste) |
| 1½ T | Oil |
| 4 stks | Corriander leaves(chopped finely ) |
| 1 strands | Curry leaves |
| 1 no | Onion medium ( chopped finely) |
| 3 clove | Garlic (crushed) |
| ¼ cup | Toor dhal |
| 4 nos | Tomato (big) |
| 1 tsp | Turmeric powder |
| 1½ tsp | Garam masala |
| Salt (can decrease or increase depending on your taste) |
Instructions
Pressure cook the toor dhal with turmeric powder. keep aside.
Blanch the tomato, remove the skin and make a puree out of it. keep it ready.
Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped onion, garam masala and curry leaves , fry till brown .Then add blanched tomato , garlic , toor dhal and little water to get soup consistency.
This soup should be little watery.
Boil it nicely till tomato changes its colour . Add the pepper powder and salt .( if u need the soup to be very hot then add pepper powder according to ur taste.)
If the tomatoes used is not tangy then we can use full one lemon . if it is tangy enough then we can add just 2 tsp of lemon juice to the soup.
garnish with corrainder and serve it with steaming rice and potato curry , appalam.
This soup is very easy and tasty too .
Madras tomato soup
Notes
- Mash toor dhal well before adding to the soup. we can grind the toor dhal in to paste and add to the soup.
- lemon is optional. if u want more tangy flavour then we shall add the lemon juice.
5 Comments
very diff recipe,,will definitely try this
Sadhana Raveen
Nice soup Divya. I usually give this as a starter
for dinners.
Arthi
Divya, Soup is very nice.soup with toor dhal is a really different idea… Good one
Thanks abhi…yeah kids favorite…Divya Mubarak
nice soup divya….. naanum intha soup seiven only diff sombu pottu thalipen thats all…milda kids favourite illaya. thanx 4 sharing