7. Tomato-Gaajar Shorba [Tomato and Carrot Soup]

 
Ingredients
2-3 Carrots
2 big sized Tomatoes
4-5 thin slices of Ginger
1 big sized Onion
½ tea spoon Salt
1 tea spoon Edible Oil
1/2 tea spoon Cumin seeds
½ tea spoon Ghee

Recipe
1. Chop the Tomatoes, Carrots and Onion and mix them. Add Ginger petals and half cup water to the mix as well.
2. Cook these vegetables in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles and allow the cooker to cool down.
3. Filter out all the water from cooked vegetables, and pour it in the jar for soup.
4. Grind the vegetables to form a thick, uniform pulp using a mixer and then mix this pulp with the water kept in the jar earlier.
5. Add salt to the mix and beat the mix for a while.
6. Put the oil in a pan and heat it on a low flame stove. Add cumin seeds to this oil and after a while add the vegetable pulp we have prepared.
7. When the mix is hot, pour the ghee to add an additional flavor. Ghee can always be skipped.
8. Pour the hot Tomato-Gaajar Shorba in soup bowls and you are all set to have a nutritious and tasty appetizer!!