Quinoa,Toordal & Tomato Soup

I never tried out soups with quinoa and dal together, i make out numerous dishes with this wonderful grains after oats and barley, its a fabulous versatile grains and u can make many wonderful dishes from breakfast to dinner with this nutritious grains, yesterday for our dinner i tried out making this delicious soup by combining the quinoa with toordal and tomatoes and this combination works out wonder...We loved this super filling,nutritious and yummy soup for our dinner with some bread toast...Quite an easy soup to enjoy without any guilt and the toordal cooked along with quinoa turned out this soup more tasty and interesting..Am sending this delicious soup to CWF-Toordal guest hosted by Suma,event by Kiran..

2cups Tomatoes (juicy)
1/2cup Tomato puree (storebought)

1/2cup Quinoa

1/4cup Toor dal

1tsp Dry parsley leaves

2cups Vegetable stock water

1no Onion(chopped)

1no Bayleaves

Salt

Pepper powder

Olive oil

Pressure cook quinoa and toor dal together upto 3 hisses with 2cups of water..meanwhile heat the olive oil in a vessel,fry the bayleaves and onions together until the onions turns transculent, add immediately the tomatoes,dry parsley leaves and cook everything with enough salt until the tomatoes turns mushy..add the vegetable stock water,tomato puree and cook for 10-15minutes...Now take off the bay leaves and blend everything as fine paste...

Take this blended soup,cooked quinoa and toordal together in a vessel, add the pepper powder,check for salt and bring to boil,put off the stove and serve this wonderful soup warm with some bread toasts..

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