Italian Tomato Soup a La Mama

Submitted by Karen Elizabeth

"An Italian tomato soup with great flavour and the pasta makes it a hearty meal, delicious and real comfort food!! Serve with chunks of garlic & mozzarella bread - I always make double if the family is home! NB I add garlic, and I dont always puree it, its just as nice left as a broth."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 30 g butter or 30 g margarine
• 1 small onion, peeled and chopped
• 1 small green bell pepper, cored, seeds removed, and chopped
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 2 beef bouillon cubes (diluted in a litre of water) or 2 vegetable bouillon cubes (diluted in a litre of water)
• 450 g tomatoes, chopped
• 2 tablespoons tomato puree
• 120 g orecchiette
• 1 tablespoon horseradish sauce
• salt & pepper

• Garnish

• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

directions

1. Heat the butter in a pan. Add onion and green pepper, cover and cook for 5 minutes. Add flour and stir.
2. Add stock, tomatoes and tomato puree. Simmer for 15 minutes. Puree soup and pass through a sieve.
3. Return to pan, season with salt and pepper. Add pasta 10 minutes before serving. Simmer and stir occasionally. Add horseradish before serving.
4. Garnish with sour cream and parsley. Serve immediately.

Reviews

[Hill Family]

Good soup. It was a bit spicy for the kids so I puréed an apple in some of the soup and added that back to the main soup. I had to use macaroni but will get a smaller pasta next time. We served this with toasted garlic bread.

 

[Kozmic Blues]

What a wonderful soup! The only kind of tomato soup I like is homemade, and this was delicious!! I read some of the other reviews, and I think I prefer this soup pureed, which is what I did. The only change I made (if you can eve call it that) was for the salt I used my Tuscan flavored sea salt. I did make my own horesradish sauce from 1 TBSP of Tofutti sour cream, 2-3 tsp horseradish and a squeeze of lime juice. I thought that gave this the perfect little kick, but not too overpowering. Did not have orecchiette, so I used a cup of orzo (one of my favorite pastas in soups!)

 

[mama smurf]

This was a wonderful and tasty soup! I followed the directions exactly but I think I will try another reviewers post and not puree it next time. Thank you for a delicious dish! Made for Think Pink Breast Awareness 2009.

 

[Studentchef]

This was good. I wasn't too sure about the horseradish but found it brought a nice zing to it. It was like adding something spicy. The flour and puree did make the soup thicker, which was also a nice touch.

 

[Kitzy]

This was really tasty with an excellent flavour. The horseradish is a brilliant idea. I couldn't find any orecchiette so I just used spirals instead. I don't know if we were very hungry but two of us polished this off for dinner.