Tomato Shorba is an Indian soup ideal for cold winter nights. It is light, mildly spicy and good for relief from cold and cough.
Winter calls for warm drinks, nothing seems better than soups for me. It is filling and I usually have a menu sorted for dinner with soup and a snack.
What is Shorba?
Shorba is Indian soup which is prepared using various spices. It is ideal to serve as a warm drink before dinner. It is a Persian term meaning salty stew. Shorba is also called as Chorba, Shurpa, Sorpa. It is a Mughlai dish and has vegetarian version as Tomato Shorba.
Winter Warmers:
Make sure you give all these winter warmers to your children, hot chocolate milk, badam milk, I have shared a few soup recipes earlier. This healthy tomato soup is what I mostly prepare for my family. It has the goodness of other vegetables in it. Vegetable Manchow Soup is the favourite of most children.
Tomato Shorba
About the event:
Sending this post to #WinterWarmersatHW. It is a fortnightly event where we work on a theme suggested by a member of the group. As winter has set in Swati, suggested Winter Warmers as the theme. Swati is a wonderful blogger with many varieties of dishes on her blog. I loved her Kesar Pista Burfi and No Yeast Bread bookmarked it to try in future. 
- Tom Yum flavoured mushroom and coriander soup by Preethi
- Vegetable Manchow Soup by Poonam
- Creamy Mushroom and sweet corn soup by Swati
- Indian spiced carrot and apple soup by Vanita
- Herbal Rasam by Narmadha
- Beetroot Carrot Soup by Sasmita
Tomato Shorba is made in three steps. Seasoning is prepared and tomatoes are cooked along with spices. Next, it is made into a pulp and passed through a sieve. Lastly, it is boiled and garnished with fresh coriander.
Tomato Shorba Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 3 cloves
- 2 cardamom
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 inch cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon fennel seed
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 onion
- 4 tomato
- a few stalks of coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper powder
- 3 cup water
- salt
- coriander for garnishing
Method:
- Take oil in a pan, add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaf. Put cumin and fennel seed, as it splutters, add the ginger-garlic paste and saute for a few seconds. Put the onion and continue to saute.
- After two minutes, put the tomatoes and coriander stalk to it. Allow to cook.
- Add turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder to it.
- Switch off the stove.
- Once it cools, make a puree and pass through the strainer.
- Put it in a pan, put salt to it and simmer for two minutes. Adjust the consistency. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
- Tomato Shorba is ready to serve.
Ingredients
Method
- Take oil in a pan, add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaf. Put cumin and fennel seed, as it splutters, add the ginger-garlic paste and saute for a few seconds. Put the onion and continue to saute.
- After two minutes, put the tomatoes and coriander stalk to it. Allow to cook.
- Add turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder to it.
- Switch off the stove.
- Once it cools, make a puree and pass through the strainer.
- Put it in a pan, put salt to it and simmer for two minutes. Adjust the consistency. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
- Tomato Shorba is ready to serve.
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