Cold Tomato-Cilantro Soup

These proportions may seem off but the soup is really meant to be served cold so you need to amp up the usual spices a bit because cold blunts the edge of the spices.

Incidentally, it also makes a terrific Bloody Mary!

(Source: Martha Rose Shulman.)

Ingredients

1-2 small bunches of cilantro
1 large red onion (diced)
3-4 cloves of garlic
tomato paste
2 tsp cumin (roasted, ground)
1 tsp red pepper flakes
1 28-oz tomato can
2 limes

salt and black pepper to taste

Recipe

The recipe pretty much proceeds as this except that you add the cilantro bundle and simmer for 30 mins.

Remove the bundle, blend in a blender and pass through a fine sieve.

Chill, and add the lime just before serving.