Spinach and Tomato Soup

Ingredients
tomato - 3 chopped
spinach leaves - 8 to 10
cumin seed  - 1 tsp
all purpose flour - 1 tsp
milk - 1/4 cup
crushed pepper corns - 1 tsp
salt as per taste
little cream for garnishing

Method
Blend spinach leaves  and tomato into a fine paste. Heat butter in a pan and add cumin seed and let it splutter. Then add crushed pepper corns and cook for few seconds.
Add a tsp of all purpose flour to it and stir fry for few seconds till the raw smell goes. Add one fourth cup of milk and mix it well.
Now add paste of spinach and tomato. Mix well and let it simmer on a low flame till it starts boiling. Add salt as per taste. Garnish with cream on top and serve hot.

Tomatoes and Green Peas Soup

Ingredients

Tomato – 250 gm

Green peas boiled – 1 cup

Onion – 1

Carrot – 1 grated

Cream –  1 tsp

Tomato sauce – 2 tbl.sp

Garlic flakes – 2

All purpose flour – 1 tsp

Milk – ½ cup

Cinnamon – 1 small piece

Cloves - 2

Vegetable stock

Salt and pepper as per taste

Method

Boil green peas, grate carrot, chop tomatoes.

Heat butter in a pan, add garlic cloves, sauté forfew seconds and then add cloves, cinnamon.  Stir fry for a minute and then add chopped onion.

When onion turns transclucnet add all purpose flour and stir fry for few seconds and then add vegetable stock, tomato and carrot. Leave it to boil. When it starts boiling, strain the water (blend the leftover tomato and carrot and again add to the soup, this will give thickness to the soup)

To the soup add boiled green peas, tomato sauce, milk and salt and pepper.

Garnish with cream and serve hot.