Almond Soup Recipe

Ingredients:
Almonds - 20
Potato - 1, small
White Turnip - 1/4 cup, chopped
Butter - 1 tblsp
Milk - 1 1/2 cups
Green Chilli - 1
Sugar - 2 tsp
Cornflour - 1 tblsp
Salt - as required
Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp

Method:
1. Blanch almonds in hot water half an hour before making soup. Peel, keep aside few and grind rest of them to smooth paste, with little milk.
2. Peel and dice the other vegetables.
3. Heat butter in pressure pan and fry potatoes and turnip in medium flame for few minutes without browning it.
4. Add milk and one cup of water. Put a green chilli and pressure cook in medium flame till one whistle.
5. Cool down, discard the chilli and make into paste in a blender.
6. Strain and dilute with more milk and water.
7. Add almond paste, salt and sugar and heat in reduced flame stirring in between.
8. Mix corn flour in 1/2 cup cold water and add it to the soup gradually.
9. Stir gently in reduced flame till soup becomes very hot.
10. Sprinkle pepper powder before serving.
11. Toast the kept aside almonds till golden brown and float few pieces in each bowl of soup before serving.

Tip: To make the soup rich and more creamy, dot with little whipped fresh cream in each bowl before serving.