Recipes

Out of the cupboard quick tomato soup

Soup  Vegetarian 

• Cooking Time: 15
• Servings: 4
• Preparation Time: 5
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon of dried basil
• 1 small tin of tomato puree [70 grams]
• 2 tins of chopped tomatoes [400 gram tins]
• 500 ml of vegetable stock plus one extra stock cube or 500 ml water and two stock cubes
• salt
• fresly grated pepper

1 Heat the oil and fry the onion and garlic for about 5 mins

2 Add basil and tomato puree and fry for another minute

3 Add the tins of chopped tomatoes with juice, stock and stockcube, bring to the boil

4 Simmer for about 10 minutes and blitz the soup with a handblender

5 Add pepper and salt to taste

Serve with bread and cheese

As a souper I try to make my soups from scratch and take all the time necessary to do it. But sometimes I'm in need of a quick soup, without having to go out shopping. The recipe below is one I can easily make from what I always have stored in the cupboard.