Delicious tomato soup
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25 min
A wonderful fragrant summertime soup. Great for using up your summer garden bounty of tomatoes. Serve with some warm crusty bread on the side.
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 1 onion, minced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- salt and ground pepper, to taste
- 5 fresh tomatoes, cubed
- 300g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 500ml vegetable stock
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 bunch fresh basil, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:15min ›
Ready in:25min
- In a stock pot over a medium heat, saute onion in butter until translucent, for about 5 minutes. Add a little salt followed by fresh tomatoes, and cook for a few minutes until golden. Add tinned tomatoes along with the juice and vegetable stock. Add salt, pepper, and sugar. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes.
- Combine garlic and basil with olive oil and lemon juice and set aside. Remove the soup from the heat, transfer into the bowl of a kitchen processor, and pulse until creamy. Strain into a clean saucepan then add the oil, garlic and basil mixture and blend well. Ladle into warmed bowls and serve hot.
