Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup.
You can have Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
- It's 2 Tbsp of olive oil.
- It's 1 of onion, chopped.
- Prepare 2 of large red peppers, seeds removed and roughly chopped.
- It's 2 cloves of garlic, chopped.
- Prepare 600 g (21 oz) of ripe tomatoes, quartered.
- It's 1 of x 400g (14oz) tin chopped tomatoes.
- You need 4 cups of chicken stock or vegetable stock.
- You need 1 Tbsp of chopped fresh basil, to garnish.
- Prepare of Extra virgin olive oil, to garnish.
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Sauté the onion, peppers, and garlic for about 5 minutes. Add the fresh tomatoes and cook for another 3-4 minutes..
- Add the tinned tomatoes, the stock and 1 (250ml) cup of water. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes..
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little. Purée the soup in batches in a food processor or with a hand-held blender. Strain through a coarse sieve and add a little extra stock, if desired..
- Roasting the vegetables gives the soup a delicious flavour. Simply halve the onions, tomatoes and peppers, place them on a lined baking tray. Drizzle with a little olive oil and roast in a 200°C (gas mark 6) oven for 60 minutes, turning the onions and peppers once. Next, peel the skin from the cooked peppers and tomatoes. Add the vegetables to the soup..
- Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve hot, and garnished with the basil and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Serve Hot with bread..
