Fresh Tomato Soup With Basil
photo by VickyJ
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 700 g ripe tomatoes, quartered with skin on
- 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
- 1 medium potato, cubed
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 500 ml chicken stock or 500 ml vegetable stock
- 2 teaspoons fresh basil, torn or 1 teaspoon dried basil
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1 -2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (optional)
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
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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.
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