Fresh Tomato Soup With Basil

"This is delicious served hot or even so, on a warm day served ice-cold! with a crusty bread. Please note, fresh basil is to be added towards the end of the cooking time, whereas when using dried basil, it needs to be added alongwith the tomatoes."
 
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Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the butter or olive oil in a thick saucepan, and add in the chopped onion, garlic and potato and soften them gently without browning for about 10-15 minutes.
  • Add the tomatoes, if you are using dried basil then add it in now alongwith the worcestershire sauce, stir well and let them cook for a minute.
  • Pour in the stock and give it a good stir and season with salt and pepper and cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Blitz the soup and then pass it through a sieve to extract the skins and pips.
  • Check seasoning, add in the fresh basil then return the pan to heat and bring to boil again.
  • Serve hot or ice-cold.

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Reviews

  1. This is a delicious version of tomato basil soup, made with fresh tomatoes and basil right out of my garden. I used a small potato in the first batch I made, and that worked out great. Since "medium" is variable, I used a slightly larger potato in a second batch, and I preferred the smaller size result. I did not use the Worchestershire sauce, and used 1/2 butter and 1/2 olive oil.
     
  2. Simply delightful. Used cherry tomatoes, shallots instead of onions and didn't add potato.
     
  3. I added some precooked pasta and extra chicken broth, excellent!
     
  4. This was very good. We had this on a chilly Saturday night. I didn't have any fresh basil, so I used dried. Right at the end, I added just a touch of sugar and about 1/4 cup milk. My SO likes alittle milk in his tomato soup. It came out delicious! :)
     
  5. Quick and easy tomato soup! I like the texture that the potato adds, and the worcestershire sauce adds a nice extra dimension of flavour. Yum! Made for PAC Fall 2007. Thanks Aaliyah's Mum!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Simply delightful. Used cherry tomatoes, shallots instead of onions and didn't add potato.
     

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