The Excellent Tomato Soup
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 1⁄2 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 stalk celery
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 (14 ounce) can tomatoes
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- thyme (optional)
- parsley (optional)
- basil (optional)
- 1 quart water
- beef bouillon cubes or vegetable bouillon cube
directions
- As this is a sort of do-it-as-you-like dish, if you have them at home, fry some onion, celery and garlic in the oil.
- Otherwise any kind of good roots.
- Add the bay leaf, tomato paste and the herbs you have handy.
- Dilute with the tomatoes, stock cubes and water and let simmer for 1/2 hour.
- Blend smooth in a food processor and, if handy, with cream, olive oil or crème fraîche.
- Add salt, black pepper and maybe some lemon.
- As a garniture I recommend canned pesto, fresh green pepper, pasta or bread croutons.
- For Vegetarian use the vegetable bouillon cube.
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Reviews
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Very tasty! I added more onion and garlic, and I let the tomato paste carmelize a bit before I added the liquids. Also used a quart of vegetable stock that I made instead of the bouillon cubes, and added just a bit of sugar to counteract the acidity of the tomatoes. The ingredients didn't specify the size of the can of tomatoes. I used 1 15 oz can of crushed tomatoes and 1 15 oz can of diced tomatoes, as that's what I had on hand. The soup was delicious, especially served with grilled cheese sandwiches! Yummy!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Andreacute Grisell
Stockholm, 0
37 years, chef diploma, but nowadays a graduate in computer science and nuclear reactor physics. Also into polar research.
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