Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup
From shootnhooton 16 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Summer is not too far away and this soup is a great way to consume that flood of tomatoes when you grow your own. Come to think of it, this tastes great anytime, so why wait?
Ingredients
- 1 onion shopping list
- 4 garlic cloves shopping list
- 1 Long sweet red pepper shopping list
- 12 Medium Size tomatoes shopping list
- 2 oz or 50g butter shopping list
- 250ml chicken stock shopping list
- 75ml double cream shopping list
- 1 Desert Spoon of dried basil shopping list
- Some fresh basil shopping list
- ¼ Tsp Ground white pepper shopping list
- 1 Level Tsp sea salt shopping list
How to make it
- Peel and chop the garlic cloves and the onion. De-seed and chop the long sweet red pepper.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the onion, garlic and sweet red pepper.
- Cover and simmer gently stirring now and then until the onions are soft – about ten minutes.
- Meanwhile, cut the tomatoes in half, splitting where the stalk was. Cut out a V to remove the hard stalk remnants and roughly chop the tomatoes. Add them to the other ingredients and bring everything back to a simmer. Add the dry basil, salt and pepper, cover, and let it all stew gently for about 20 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Add the chicken stock and simmer gently for another ten minutes.
- Remove from the heat and now blend all the ingredients in a liquidiser or with an electric hand blender. Return it to the saucepan, taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
- Stir in 50ml of double cream saving 25ml for presentation. Serve with some torn fresh basil leaves and a swirl of cream. Revel in the taste, consume luxuriously then relax for ten minutes. Take the dog for a walk.
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This Sounds Awesome. Thnx For Sharing.
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We plant our tomatoes here in the fall also. Bookmarking for later when they all get ripe. Thanks
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Excellent post. Thanks
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