Tomato Soup

Making the tomato soup is one of the easiest things to do if you have a food processor and a pressure cooker. It involves two steps. Making the puree and then making the soup out of that puree. You don't need any fancy ingredients with unpronounceable names. Just tomatoes, onion, garlic, tej pata, salt, garam masala, chilli powder, flour and milk.

Making the puree

Ingredients 
4 medium sized tomatoes chopped
1/2 medium sized onion chopped
1 clove of garlic chopped
1 tej pata
Salt
1 small cube of butter
Water

The pressure cooker is on the oven > Pour a little butter and fry one tej pata for a minute > Add some chopped onion, garlic and salt > Saute it for some time till the onion turns brownish > Pour the chopped tomatoes in it and stir for a few seconds > Pour some water > Cover the lid > Wait for three whistles and switch off the oven > Let it cool

After it cools down take the tej pata out and put the whole thing in food processor and blend it till the pulp becomes really pulp and no piece of tomato is visible. If you want it to be super smooth then stain the puree. If you are fine with a few lumps then your puree is ready. 

Making the soup

Ingredients
Tomato puree
1/4 teaspoon of flour
1/4 cup of milk
Salt, garam masala, red chilli powder
Water
Cream for the Mocambo taste 

Heat a little butter on the pan. Put a quarter of a tea spoon of flour in it and stir. Pour a quarter cup of milk in it and stir to make it a paste like thing. Pour the puree in it. Add the garam masala, red chilli powder and a little salt if the puree wasn't salty enough for your taste. 

Now add a little water if the consistency is not to your liking. You can add a little bit more milk towards the end or add some cream. Putting the cream is not necessary really unless you want it to taste absolutely like Mocambo's.

I have noticed that if you drink it fresh it tastes awesome. Particularly I love the flavour of butter. But if you keep it cooled and then heat it up later it doesn't taste as great. Some of the fresh flavour is lost.