Serves 2 Ingredients: Tomatoes – 4 Garlic, crushed – 4 cloves White pepper – 2 tbsp Basil leaves – 2 (I used dry basil leaves powder) Salt – to taste Sugar – one pinch Butter – 1 tsp Coriander leaves – for garnishing How I Made It:

  1. Puree the tomatoes with salt.
  2. Heat a kadai and add the butter. When it has melted, add the garlic, pepper and basil leaves and stir well for 10 seconds.
  3. Add the pureed tomatoes and cook for some time, partly covered. You can sieve the tomato puree if required, I just removed the skin of the tomato before pureeing, that way its easier.
  4. Adjust salt and spice, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot. This is a really simple recipe for tomato soup that I tried out on my own. Was pretty okay, but the frothing just wouldn’t go off. Any suggestions on that, please pass it on. Garlic Toast Recipe What I Used: Wheat bread – 3 slices, halved (Use any bread of your choice, baguette being the ideal one) Salted butter, at room temperature – 3 tbsp Garlic – 6 cloves How I Made It: I am not a huge fan of garlic chunks in the toast so I blended the butter and garlic nicely before spreading on the bread and toasting till golden brown. It was out of this world!