Tomato Pepper Lentil Soup

Tomato Pepper Lentil Soup! Unlike regular soup, this can be had with rice. Since this has got pepper, it is very soothing if you have cough/cold. The lentils in this provides you with protein balance in your diet.

Ingredients:

Toor dhal - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1/2
Tomato - 1 (medium sized)
Cloves - 1
Cinnamon - a small piece (optional)
Turmeric poweder - 1/4 sp
Salt - as needed
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Ghee - 1 sp (optional)

To grind:

Pepper - 1/2 sp
Saunf - 1/4 sp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 sp
Cinnamon - a small piece
Cloves - 1

Method:

Grind all ingredients given under 'to grind' section to a paste adding little water. Finely chop onion and tomato. Wash and soak dhal for 10 minutes.


Heat 1 sp oil + 1 sp ghee in a pressure cooker and add cloves and cinnamon. Add onion, tomato, curry leaves and the grinded paste. Mix together well with needed water.

Add the soaked dhal to the cooker with turmeric powder. Give it a nice stir and pressure cook it for 3 whistles (or like how you pressure cook dhal).

Once pressure is released, add ghee and coriander leaves. Serve soup with rice!

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