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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Beetroot Soup


          The cold weather here makes one crave for some kind of soup, either the creamier version or the lighter soups. Personally I like the clear soups, spiced up with lots of pepper, sometimes even the hot rasam is more than welcome. As a kid I used to like beets just for the color, loved the tongue turning pink after eating them, liked to have them with curd rice, just to see the white rice become pink. Usually it's the beetroot poriyal and on occasions the beetroot halwa, especially when my amma made it and gave me hot, hot. Today's soup is the husband's favorite, it's one simple and easy soup with literally very few ingredients..
Need To Have
  • Grated Beetroot - 2 cups
  • Chopped Tomatoes - 2 cups
  • Salt & Pepper - to taste
  • Lemon Juice - to taste


Method
          Take the beetroot and the tomatoes in a big pan, add 7 to 8 cups of water and bring it to boil with some salt. Simmer it for about 10 mins, mashing down the tomatoes, to bring out all the juice. Remove and strain, add some pepper, and serve it with a squeeze of lemon and some bread croutons.

Sending it to Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes to take part in the Healthy Diet-Warm Soups event.

Also sending to Taste Of Pearl City for the Any One Can Cook event.

Note
The tomatoes that we get here are never sour enough, adjust the amount of tomatoes accordingly.
Don't avoid the lemon juice, that gives an extra punch.





18 comments:

  1. Colorful Comforting soup. But never tasted beet soup...

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  2. following your site delicious looking colourful beet root soup

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  3. wow.. beetroot soup looks so delicious... perfect for winters..

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  4. Hema thank you for following my site every time I come here it looks new and fabulous :)

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  5. very healthy and nice soup !!

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  6. super delicious and colorful soup..love it..following u!! :)

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  7. Such a healthy soup dear. Love the color

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  8. Colorful soup........healthy too...superb

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  9. Never tasted beets soup, looks appealing to eyes and very good for health too!

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  10. Lovely crimson color n perfect soup...chilling weather n hot soup great combo!!

    Erivum Puliyum

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  11. Omg, the colour itself tempts me a lot, wat an incredible bowl of healthy soup,thanks for sending..

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  12. Very healthy soup,also I love the bright colour of the soup. Thank you for linking with Any One Can Cook :)

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  13. Great soup....color just drags me there...ha ha
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