Tomato soup
By: Paul Bloxham From: Good Food Live
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Tomato soup
- Prep time:
- 25 mins
- Cook time:
- 30 mins
- Serves:
- 4
For a luxurious soup try Paul Bloxham's sophisticated recipe, flavoured with fresh herbs and enriched with cream
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 Onion, chopped
- 2 clove Garlic, crushed
- 1 stick Celery
- 1 small Carrot, peeled and finely diced
- 2 tbsp Flour
- 1kg Tomatoes, skinned, seeded, and chopped, juice reserved
- 500ml chicken stock
- 1 tbsp sun-dried tomato purée
- 1 tbsp leaves Basil
- 2 tsp chopped Thyme
- 1 Bay leaves
- black pepper
- 100ml white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- handful of stalks Basil
- 100ml double cream
To serve:
- Cream
- croutons
Method
1. In a large, heavy-based saucepan, melt the butter over a medium heat.2. Add the onion, garlic, celery and carrot and cook, stirring frequently, until softened - around 3-5 minutes.
3. Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 1-2 minutes, without letting it colour.
4. Tip in the tomatoes along with their juice, and add the stock, sun-dried tomato puree, basil, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook for 20 minutes. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.
5. In a separate small saucepan heat together the vinegar, sugar and basil stalks and cook briskly until reduced by half. Strain and reserve.
6. In a food processor or blender, puree the tomato soup until smooth. Return to the pan and reheat. Stir in the double cream.
7. Add enough of the vinegar reduction to sharpen.
8. Serve with a swirl of cream.
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I used this recpe to use up a glut of toamtoes from the garden.It freezes wel, even my husband who doesn't like tomato soup thought it was great.
This was very easy to prepare & cook.To peel the tomatoes,I put them in a bowl and covered with boiling water,and rubbed them between my fingers.
This soup tasted realy nice,my children enjoyed it and said that it tastes better than canned tomato soup!!!
If there was a star rating for this recipe,I would give it 5*****
I would recommend this recipe.