Easy tomato soup recipe with fresh tomatoes and a secret ingredient for color. Step by step pictures for beginners, with all ingredients available in your pantry. Nothing fancy, just an one pot soup!
Tomato soup is made in many ways, I would say this is the easiest way we can do with less effort.
This is most favorite for everyone following the sweet corn soup.
A smooth and bright red color from a tiny bit of beetroot added to it, makes a natural eye appealing color soup, that beats the restaurant ones!
Apart from the tomato soup recipes we get in Indian restaurants, I love the bisque we get in subway.
I love it for the rich cheesy and herb flavor in that one. This recipe is also very flavorful in its own way.
My kid is also not big fan of soups. After all, our eating habits affect our kids a lot, so he is also like that. Only tomato soup he likes. More than the soup, he likes the bread croutons.😊
Ingredients
Tomatoes - Choose red ripe tomatoes for best flavor, taste and color.
Corn starch - Corn flour as we call it in India (the white one) is used for thickening the soup, giving homogenous smooth texture.
Garlic - Since the ingredients are simple, it takes flavor from garlic. I highly recommend using it unless otherwise you are avoiding it.
Of course you can skip it.
These are the three main ingredients for this soup. Below is the secret ingredient for the vibrant color of the soup.
Top tip
Adding a little beetroot is the tip to get nice bright red (I learnt this tip from Anjaraipetti show and also have read as tip in Mangayar malar) apart from choosing red ripe tomatoes.
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Tomato soup recipe
Ingredients
- 4 Tomatoes Red ripe
- 2 Beetroot
- 4 Garlic
- 1 Bay leaf Or biryani leaf
- 1 tablespoon Butter - 1 tbsp
- Salt - As needed
- Black pepper - As needed
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Corn flour
- Cream Optional - To garnish
- 1 tablespoon Coriander leaves
Instructions
- In a small pressure cooker or pressure pan, heat butter firstly.
- Add bay leaves, roughly chopped garlic.
- Then add the tomatoes, beetroot and 1 cup water.
- Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
- Without disturbing much, take out the tomato skin which by now will come easily by itself.
- Discard the skin. Take out the bay leaf.
- If you want you can transfer to a sauce pan (another vessel to boil the soup) or continue with the cooker itself.
- I used my immersion blender to grind. If using mixie, cool down and blend without water.
- Strain this through a metal strainer to remove the seeds. You can use little water if you need.
- Again start heating the soup with the bay leaf, sugar and salt.
- Boil for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the corn flour mixed with 1 tablespoon water and mix well.
- Boil until thick consistency reaches.
- Season generously with black pepper, adjust salt and garnish with coriander leaves. Add cream in top if desired.
Notes
- I added about 2 slices of beetroot in size of two potato wedges.
- Add pepper generously or the soup will be very tangy.
- You can add half of a potato to soup as thickener.
Easy & best tomato soup
1. In a small pressure cooker or pressure pan, heat butter fristly and add bay leaves, roughly chopped garlic. Then add the tomatoes, beetroot and 1 cup water.
2. Pressure cook for 2 whistles. Once done, without disturbing much, take out the tomato skin which by now will come easily by itself.
Discard the skin. Take out the bay leaf. If you want you can transfer to a sauce pan (another vessel to boil the soup) or continue with the cooker as well.
I used my immersion blender to grind. If using mixie, cool down and blend without water.
3. Strain this through a metal strainer to remove the seeds. You can use little water if you need. Again start heating the soup with the bay leaf, sugar and salt.
4. Boil for 3-4 minutes. Add the corn flour mixed with 1 tablespoon water and mix well.
Boil until thick consistency reaches. Season generously with black pepper, adjust salt and garnish with coriander leaves.
Add cream in top if desired.
Serve hot always. Top with bread croutons or serve with golden roasted bread toast🤤. Dip the toast in the soup and eat… Heavenly!
Chitra
wow, lovely colour. wish to have it rite now :)When to add beetroot , along with tomato ?
VineelaSiva
Wow thw soup looks very inviting.Loved the clicks.
Divya Kudua
I love Tomato soup-even better if it has buttered croutons in it:)Love your salt pepper shakers!
Rumana Ambrin
So so tempting soup..
Sangeetha Nambi
Wow ! Wow !!! Love this Raji... Ur clicks are awesome...
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Anonymous
Delicious and yummy...amazing click...
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Nagalakshmi V
looks gorgeous raji. love the first pic. my athamma has a special version which she gave me over the phone this weekend. not sure when i'll be able to try is, hopefully soon 🙂
Sudha Sabarish
Fantastic Raji.Just love the vibrant color and the pepper holder which is too cute.Healhty soup and perfect for this winter.
APARNARAJESHKUMAR
pretty ! 🙂 loved the photography
RAKS KITCHEN
Oh, forgot to mention, edited now, thanks for asking 🙂
Aruna Manikandan
hmmm.... delicious soup 🙂
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Raji
Brilliant photos Raji...I love tomato soup any time and I too always add beetroot for that lovely red colour. Loved your salt and pepper shakers...too cute 🙂
Shama Nagarajan
tempting and super inviting .. ..wish to try it out
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Priti S
Looks beautiful ...the most comforting soup
Jeyashrisuresh
I can have this anytime of the day. Well presented and love this yummy soup
sowmya(creative saga)
Lovely colour..this for the beetroot tip...will use it when I make this next time..
Meena Selvakumaran
Lovely clicks & presentation .love the addition of the beetroot.bookmarked.
Ramya's World
tomato soup is my favorite.will try it soon
Satrupa
Looks fantastic ..... perfect for a cool winter eve 🙂
Prathima Rao
Love the color...delicious & inviting...A welcome any time of the day or year!!
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Preeti Bajaj
wow,it looks so yummy,but can we add some fresh Basil leaves on it,just for a nice flavour.
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Raks... You inspire me everyday. You should better start teaching us how to click beautiful pics along with the recipe... Sooper Raks .
Recently I posted recipe inspired from your blog . Rava kesari. Thanks
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RAKS KITCHEN
Sure, you can replace cilantro with basil leaves.
Lakshmi
Wow 🙂 looks yummy . Salt and pepper mills look lovely
Lakshmi
Wow 🙂 looks yummy . Salt and pepper mills look lovely
Uma Ramanujam
What a sharp picture and colour. Love the entire recipe. If you add bread croutons to it, awww, you never say "NO" to this soup...
lata raja
I usually make my soup in a similar way. I too love tomato soup.
prathibha Garre
I too add beet root to get that deep red color...a simple but comforting soup
Vijitha
I am loving the color! Look so comforting
divya
looks irresistibly hearty n inviting,wonderful clicks
Preeti Jaipal
wooowwww..... your pics are really gud.... lov to follow u..:)
Veena Theagarajan
wow! lovely color and yummy soup
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Laavanya
That looks sooo good! Tomato soup is easily my favorite (esp. the indian style not the ones we get here) and like your son, i love the buttery croutons too.
Priya
Am a sucker of tomato soup, very catchy bowl.
Sushma Madhuchandra
I keep making tomato soup these days to keep myself warm! I add carrots too for this soup. Loved the pictures..
Sharmilee! :)
Rich and delicious tomato soup, yum!! Lovely color too!!
Shree Kanneppady
Soup looks super delicious.
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Sowmya D.S.L
Soup looks so delicious.. I bet tasted good.. !! I am gonna give it a try this weekend! Thanks raks 🙂
Janani
wow what a coincidence I just made it for dinner yday but added carrot instead of beetroot but that's a nice tip .Healthy soup love it.
Harini
Lovely soup! My all time favorite 🙂 and beautiful clicks.
Nivedhanams Sowmya
For me soup is tomato soup... rest all comes next... and this perfect colored soup is delicious!!!
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Navya G
Hi,I found your blog quite recently. Lovely style of writing. If you dont mind me asking, when did you get those beautiful cooking vessels? Are they made of glass?
Anonymous
The soup obviously seems yummy. But I would like to appreciate the way you explained the method with picture. As it is said that the picture tell thousand words. It right. Looking at your picture, one need not to read the method. Your pictures tell the method. I have bookmarked it. Thanks. Raks...
gireesh
It is quick easy recipe...Thanks....
Amina
Hi... tried your soup recipe... it came out delicious... have posted it in my blog... thanks for sharing the recipe... 🙂
friend
wow fabulous nd easy recipe..
Khushboo Vijayvargiya
y do u add beet root? any special reason? cn i skip it?
Gurvinder pal Singh
wowww awesome ,,, i m enjoying it 🙂
Gurvinder pal Singh
Thank you ,,,, i m enjoying it 🙂
deepti arun
Tried it now came out well but dint add garlic and beet root instead I added ginger juice and carrot
Nimi Sha
It looks so good.. can we use ghee instead of butter??
Raks anand
Sure can use
Nimi Sha
Good to see this.. 🙂 shall we use ghee instead of butter????
Nimi Sha
Thanks for ur rply sis.. 🙂 i have tried your cornflour halwa without microwave.. it came well.. but it is so jelly when i cook normally not as thick as in the pic.. wat to do for dat??
Nimi Sha
Thanks for ur rply sis .. 🙂
JX
Hey Raks,
I came across your tomato soup recipe and it was great! It is so far one of the few tomato soup recipe that requires no artificial flavoring or sweetness.
I made some variations to the soup by substituting half of the tomato with carrots (referred to your carrot soup recipe) and left out beetroot, bay leaf, cream or corn flour as the soup adhered nicely and was creamy and thick enough! 🙂
Added more water throughout the process as it evaporated quite fast. I put it to a boil first before simmering the soup for the next 20-30 minutes. So that the carrot and tomato were soft enough to be blended smoothly.
Thanks so much for sharing and look forward to your other innovations!
- A critical foodie from Singapore
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Hi am your great fan.....i learned many recipes from yours only...thanks for the recipes you shared....your recipes are awesome,super,yummy and easy...
Aleena Ameena
Can you tell that can we skip the beetroot part?
Raks anand
You can skip, but colour may turn out lighter.
Anuradha Shanmugavel
Whether do we need to blend with beet root, will it change the taste?
Raks Kitchen
Yes blend beetroot together. It would not change taste