Tomatoe Soup - Marathi style

Source: My cousin sisters Madhuvanti and Shubha Badve

Time: about 2 hours

Ingredients:

• Tomato pulp - 3 cups
  (boil 3-4 tomatoes, remove the cover, blend to get the pulp/puree. I use the tinned puree as a filler to increase volume)
• Grated coconut - 1.5 cups
  (i use the frozen one)
• Finely chopped ginger - 1/2 inch
  
• Roasted cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  don't use the readymade powder - it does not give the same taste
  
• For tadka:
  1 tbsp ghee,
  1 tbsp cumin seeds,
  Curry leaves - 5-6,
  Green Chillies - 1
  
• Finely chopped coriander leaves and fresh coconut for garnish

Recipe:

Blend the tomato pulp, fresh coconut, chopped ginger and roasted cumin seeds. Put this mixure through a fine sieve so that the cumin seeds and coconuts shreds are removed from the blended mixture. Add salt and sugar to taste and mix well. I like it sweeter so I'd put about 1.5 spoons of sugar.

This is the most time consuming part .. but u can keep this mixture ready before the party and the remaining part just takes 5 minutes.

Basically add around 1/2 cup water and heat this mixture. Start the tadka (see the ingredients above) while this mixture comes to a boil..

Put tadka on the mixture and garnish with a coconut-coriander mixture.

Serve hot with your choice of appetizers.. like corn bhujiya