Roasted Pumpkin Tomato Soup

Roasted Pumpkin and Tomato Soup is one of the most flavorful dishes that has intense essence of the roasted pumpkin, tomato, onions and spices blended together making this soup thick, creamy and velvety. Roasting the pumpkin, tomatoes and onions gives a rich and strong zest with unique taste. Serve this soup with a slice of grilled bread or croutons. Pumpkin is a lovely vegetable, colorful, thick fleshed veggie and when cooked is soft and creamy giving an amazing texture to the soup.

Apart from its zesty taste, it comes packed with a bundle of healthy and nutritious elements. You could celebrate your day with the sweetness and flavor of the pumpkin, slight tanginess from the roasted tomatoes and onions all mixed together enhances the color, taste and is just extraordinary to experience. Tomato, an important ingredient used in the Indian cuisine , lovely red cute glossy shiny vegetable is almost used in every Indian curry that given a tangy taste to the dish. Varied recipes are prepared with this vegetable like the tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato juice, tomato puree, tomato rasam and so many to go in the list. Sugars, organic acids, free amino acids, and salts are the main taste components in a tomato.

The tomato fruit is consumed in varied ways, including raw, as an ingredient in many dishes and sauces, and in drinks. The fruit is rich in lycopene, which may have beneficial health effects. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant that decreases the risk of certain cancers and heart disease. Cooked tomato products, sauces and juices contain higher amounts of lycopene than raw tomatoes due to greater concentration. Tomatoes are loaded with many, many health benefits. In fact, they are incredibly versatile and can be prepared in a seemingly endless number of dishes, as well as being great to eat alone.

Roasting tomatoes brings out some of the greatest flavors, but also actually makes them healthier for you. Roasted tomatoes make a great appetizer on bruschetta or in an antipasto platter; smear a bagel with cream cheese and top with a few roasted tomatoes for an amazing breakfast or snack. Do try this recipe as every bit of its taste is amazingly useful, a more delicious way to add it to your diet along with all the goodness that comes with it.

Recipe of Roasted Pumpkin Tomato Soup:

Ingredients:

1. Vegetable stock                -       150 ml


2. Butter                      -       3 tbsp


3. Onions                     -       1 no


4. Carrots                     -       2 nos


5. Olive oil                   -       1 tbsp


6. Garlic                       -       5 nos


7. Leeks                       -       1 tsp


8. Celery, chopped       -       1 tsp


9. Rose mary                        -       ½ tsp


10. Pepper, crushed       -       ½ tsp


11. Basil, dry                 -       ½ tsp


12. Pumpkin, cubes       -       250 gms


13. Tomato                    -       250 gms


14. All-purpose flour      -       1 tsp


15. Salt                          -       to taste

Directions:

1. Take a bowl and add dry basil, rose mary, crushed pepper, salt, chopped celery, leeks, garlic. Pour some olive oil and mix well.


2. In this mixture, add tomatoes (cut into halves), pumpkin cubes, carrots, onions and mix well.


3. Transfer all ingredients into a baking try and put it into the oven and cook for 45 minutes @ 160 degree C or until pumpkin and tomatoes become soft.


4. Heat butter, add all-purpose flour and sauté till raw flavours are gone.


5. Add vegetable stock, roasted pumpkin & tomato puree and mix well.


6. Once this comes to a boil, add pinch of sugar and mix.


7. Finish it off with a dash of cream.


8. Serve hot with toast.

This is a beautiful classic roasted pumpkin and tomato soup mainly for its simplicity, freshness and exotic flavours. Soups are a delight especially during the rainy and winter seasons. It’s truly a comfort food, refreshing, full of flavours and aromatic. I hope that you all will also try preparing this soup and enjoy its taste. If you wish to try more, then

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