Desi style tomato soup

Wonderful soup for winter season and great if you want to eat something light (sans butter and heavy cream).

This will serve 8-10 people

Ingredients:

• 3 pound tomatoes (I use roma tomatoes but other varieties will do equally good)
• 1 large white or red onion chopped into chunks
• 2 green chilies (add more if you want it more spicy) cut in halves
• 5-6 cloves of garlic cut in halves
• 1 tbsp dried oregano (even better if you can replace it with fresh)
• 1 tbsp dried basil
• 10-12 fresh basil leaves
• 1 tsp black pepper powder
• 1 tsp cumin coriander powder
• Salt to taste
• 1/3rd cup heavy cream
• 2 tbsp butter

Step 1: Wash the tomatoes, put them in a pot covered with water and heat it until you see tomato skin braking. Drain the water and let tomatoes cool down. One tomatoes cool down, peel off and discard the skin.

Peeled tomatoes

 Step 2: Heat oil in a large pot, saute garlic till lightly brown. Put in chopped onion and saute until translucent. Add green chilies dried basil, oregano, fresh basil, black pepper, salt, cumin coriander powder and saute for another 2 minutes.

Step 3: Add peeled tomatoes and 2 cups of water to sauteed onion and cook for 8-10 minutes. Let it cool a bit and puree using a food processor or hand blender. Add heavy cream and butter and bring the soup to a boil. You can adjust the consistency by adding more water.
Serve it hot with garlic bread or just like that.

I forgot to take a picture of the final product and it was all gone by the time I thought of it :).