Indian Cooking Recipe : Spicy Bean Soup Ingredients: For the chilli bean soup 900 gms (2 lb.) tomatoes 1 onion, chopped 1 capsicum, chopped 3 spring onions 1 small can (220 gms) baked beans 3 tsp sugar (approx.) ½ tsp chilli sauce 2 tbsp oil salt to taste For the white sauce 2 tbsp butter 2 tbsp plain flour 2 teacups milk salt and pepper to taste For serving Grated cheese and chilli sauce Method: For the white sauce Melt the butter, put the flour and cook for 2 minutes without browning and keep on stirring throughout. Take out from the heat and gradually add the milk. Combine until well blended. Return to heat and cook slowly, stirring throughout until the sauce thickens. Put salt and pepper and mix properly. For the chilli bean soup Chop the spring onions with half the leaves into small pieces. Keep aside one whole tomato. Cut the remaining into big pieces, put 5 teacups of water and cook. When cooked, take out a soup by passing through a sieve. Cut the remaining tomato. Heat the oil in a vessel and sauté the onion for 1 minute. Put the capsicum and spring onions and sauté for 2 minutes. Put the tomato soup and boil for at least 10 minutes. Put the chopped tomato, baked beans, white sauce, sugar, chilli sauce and salt and cook for a few minutes. Serve hot with grated cheese and chilli sauce.