Tomato Soup

Recipe#24 from Mrs.K.M.Mathews recipe series.

This tomato soup is a restaurant style tomato soup.. easy to make with nice color!

Ingredients:

1. Tomato, ripe and red, skin peeled by putting them in hot water - 1/4 kg
2. Butter -  2tbs
3. Onion, chopped - 1/4 cup
4. Carrot, chopped into chunky pieces - 1/4 cup
5. All purpose flour - 2 tbs
6. Water -  3 cups
7. Salt to taste
8. Tomato ketchup - 1/4 cup
9. Sugar - 2 tsp

Method:

1. Add butter in a hot heavy bottomed pan in medium flame
2. Saute onion and carrot in it for a minute.
3. Add 2 tbs of flour in it and mix well for a minute 
4. Add chopped tomato in to it and add 3 cups water
5. Cook the soup well till all vegetables are cooked really well. (I have used pressure cooker to do this)
6. Blend the soup to very smooth puree and pass it through a sieve to remove any lumps. (i didn't do the sieve part as i didnt have a good sieve with me.)
7. Heat the soup in a pan
8. Add salt to taste
9. Add tomato ketchup and mix well
10. To balance the taste, add sugar and mix it

Serve hot soup with croutons or bread!