Tomato & Basil Soup

Tomato & Basil Soup

Ingredients:
A glug of olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 Elephant Garlic clove, or 2 “normal” garlic cloves, chopped
1.5 kg ripe tomatoes
1 litre vegetable stock
50g basil leaves, chopped
and for a mild kick 1 chilli (obviously omit if you don’t like spices!)

PHOTO METHOD

Wash your toms

Chop them in half – which is good cos you can weed out any manky ones

Here’s what’s going in the pot

Chopped garlic – smelly!

Chopped onions, chilli and Basil

Sweat the onion, garlic & chilli in the olive oil for 5 minutes (as with most recipes – cook the aromatics first)

Plonk in the tomatoes and cook for another 5 minutes

Add the veg stock and bay leaves —–

— and simmer for 20 minutes or so

Blitz with a hand blender or food processor and if you do not want the tomato seeds in the soup then strain through a sieve (I did)

Pour into whatever container you want and dress with Bay Leaves

Label and chill or freeze as you want – less than an hour start to finish. Two litres of soup ready for the winter.