Tomato Soup

sandraroffey

i make mine with fresh toms, no need to skin. onions, bit of garlic and some roasted red peppers if you like them.(roasted til the skins are black then peel. and most importantly, Basil. cook it all together in a pot with some veg or chicken stock. blitz when its all cooked through.

Pink.

This is how I make tomato soup.

Ingredients:

tomatoes, potato, chicken stock, onion, garlic, basil, a little sugar.

Method:

Chop tomatoes in half , add slices of garlic, drizzle with olive oil and roast at a high temp in the oven. No need to remove skins.

Once beginning to brown at the edges the tomatoes and garlic are ready.

Sweat potato and onion in a little oil over a low heat until beginning to soften.

Add oven roasted tomatoes, garlic, stock, teaspoon of sugar and some basil. Simmer gently until all the veg are cooked.

Whizz with a stick blender until smooth.

Serve with a swirl of cream and some crusty or herb bread.

Pics of how I do it here

There's an earlier thread with more recipes:

Tomato Soup

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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lizbith

Hi, I have a recipe for a kinda tomato soup, though I guess its not traditional .....bit more of a tattie (potato) and tomato soup but anyways here it is:

1 to 2 large onions chopped
1/2 llb of smoked back backon chopped with fat removed ( though I often add more than this)
2 tins of tomatoes
2 to 4 large potatoes chopped
milk
cayenne pepper


Fry onions and bacon till soft and lightly brown, add tins of tomatoes, and chopped potatoes, when potatoes are soft, blend with blender, gradually add milk and stir. Note add milk utill you get required consistency, I like quite a thick soup but its up to you what you prefer. Heat up again, Then it its ready to serve, the recipe was to add cayenne pepper to the pan, as it gives it a nice kick, but not everyone likes pepper, so I just put it on table for everyone to add their own to taste.

You could add more or less bacon, if you want, although I know this adds to the cost of the soup the smoked bacon really does give it a lovely flavour.

Also obviously you can add more onions for flavour, or more potatoes depending on how thick you want the soup.
the same goes for the tomatoes , depending on how much potatoes you have you could add another tin of tomatoes or I sometimes fill up empty tomato tin half way with water and add to potatoes if I think there is not enough liquid, but dont want to add any more tomatoes.

Also I have froze this soup, and it freezes no problem.
I have made this for years so my quantites are maybe not totally accurate but this is roughly what I do:):)

Molly41

Cream of Tomato Soup:
Ingredients:
1 onion
25g butter
½ teaspoon easy garlic (jar in fridge)
Half a teaspoon paprika
Tablespoon tomato puree
BIG Squirt of tomato sauce
1000g tomatoes chopped (all the tomatoes in the fridge} - get on offer or yellow stickered or C0stc0 or glut
2 teaspoon of sugar
600 ml vegetable stock (marigold make up 4 teaspoon per litre)
Half a tub of cream

Method:
Fry onion in butter for 10 mins until soft.
Stir in garlic
Add puree and tomato sauce
Add tomatoes, sugar and veg stock.
Bring to the boil then simmer for 20 mins
Blend the soup with blender
Push through a sieve to remove seeds and skin and return liquid to pan (washed)
Stir in most of cream

Easy to make and tastes much nicer than tinned. We freeze in individual portions.