Tomato soup
Ingredients:
- 20 spoonfuls olive oil
- 1 small onion
- 1 leek
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 700 grams ripe tomatoes
- 850 ml chicken stock
- 2 spoonfuls tomato concentrate
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Sugar
- ½ ciabatta bread
- 12 basil leaves
- Extra virgin olive oil
Method:
1
Heat up the oil in a large pot.
2
Add the onion, leak and garlic cloves. Cook these ingredients over a low flame, until they are soft.
3
Put the tomatoes into a bowl and cover them with boiling water. Leave them for a minute.
4
Strain the tomatoes and cover them with cold water. Leave them for another minute.
5
Then peel the tomatoes, chop them into pieces and add them to the onion, leak and garlic mixture. Add the chicken stock, tomato concentrate, salt and pepper. Add a pinch of sugar as well. That will help to bring out the flavour of the tomatoes.
6
Add the mixture to boiling water, cover the pot with a lid and cook over a low flame for 30 minutes.
7
Cut up the bread into pieces and add it to the various soup dishes you will be serving the soup with.
8
Finally, add the basil and pour the soup over the bread. Before you serve, you can drop a dash of extra virgin olive oil into the soup.
