Tomato Soup With Oats

I have a sore jaw, thanks to my wisdom tooth which instead of growing vertically up, is growing horizontally and is pushing against my teeth. Today I am not even able to eat. So, thought of making a soup which will be fulfilling. I used oats as a filler and made a tomato soup. Didn't really do anything fancy, kept it pretty simple.

Ingredients:
Tomato Puree - 11/2 cups
Oats - 3 tbsp
Vegetable stock/water - 1 cup
Chilli Powder - a large pinch
Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp
Dried Basil - 1/2 tsp
Olive oil - 1/2 tsp
Garlic - 1 clove, finely chopped
Salt - As per taste

Method of Preparation:
1. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped garlic. Fry for a minute, and add oats to it.
2. Fry for 2 minutes, add the tomato puree, vegetable stock/water, chilli powder, salt and let it boil.
3. Add basil, pepper powder and let the soup simmer for couple of minutes.
4. Enjoy the hot tomato soup with oats.

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Roasted Tomatillo Salsa

Tomatillos are great for making salsa. Earlier I had posted a tomotillo salsa recips, where I had boiled the tomatillos and used them to make the salsa. In today's recipe,I have pan roasted the ingredients for the salsa and then blended them coarsely, so that the salsa is a bit chunkier.

Ingredients:

Tomatillos - 3, medium sized, washed thoroughly and wiped dry

Garlic - 3 large pods, do not peel them, else they will get burnt

Onion - 1/2, medium sized

Dry Red Chillies/Arbor Chillies - 3

Cilantro/Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp, finely chopped

Oil - 1 tbsp

Salt - As per taste

Method of Preparation:

1. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan and add the whole tomatillos, garlic pods with the outer skin on, half onion, whole dry red chillies and let them roast slowly on medium heat.

2. Using tongs, keep turning the ingredients so that they slowly get charred evenly.

3. Once the tomatillos are roasted evenly, turn off the heat and let them cool down.

4. Add the roasted tomatillos, chillies, onion, salt to a blender. Peel the roasted garlic and add them to the blender.

5. Grind them coarsely if you prefer a chunky salsa or to a smooth puree.

6. Add the chopped cilantro to the roasted tomatillo salsa and enjoy with corn chips.

Optional: You can even add finely chopped onions to the salsa.