Yummy tomato soup..

[piggynose]

Try this one, you'll never buy Heinz again ...

Ingredients

* Cooking oil
* A 400g can of peeled plum tomatoes (not chopped tomatoes)
* 1 dessert spoon of margarine or butter
* 2 dessert spoons of tomato purée
* 1 onion
* 1 red pepper
* 1 potato
* (optional) 3 rashers of smoky bacon, chopped
* Salt
* 2 tsp basil

Method

* Dice onion, red pepper and potato.

* Gently sweat the diced onion and red pepper in a little oil and a small amount (dessert spoon) of butter or margarine.

* After a couple of minutes, add the diced potato and bacon (if used) and allow to cook slowly for 10 minutes.

* After the 10 minutes, take just the juice from the can of tomatoes and add water to make the juice up to 500ml.

* Then add to the onion and potato in the pan.

* Add tomatoes from the can.

* Stir in 2 dessert spoons of tomato puree.

* Add a pinch of salt and 2 tsp basil.

* Allow to simmer uncovered until potato is soft.

* Blend until smooth and if you fancy a little decadence, add a swirl of cream!


Instead of the cream (yuk) I cut some ¾inch slices of French Bread, toasted them on one side, flipped them over, grated a pile of Cheddar on top and grilled them until the cheese was melted and beginning to brown slightly ... A couple of these cheese-toasty 'croutons' were floated on the top of each bowl of soup
16:50 Fri 05th Nov 2010

[snowyball]

that sounds delish, but i dont have a blender, but i do have a masher, will that work and can i add some chilli's in that, ohh is this for one serving?

[slinkycat]

Mmm that sounds good, usually use fresh tomatoes, but tinned would save the phaff of pealing them.

[wolf63]

I *love* Heinz tomato soup so much.

[piggynose]

first of all, this wasn´t my recipe!! it was Naz´s.
snowy, there aren´t any rules when it comes to making soup. i used to also use a spud masher some years ago with no probs. by all means add chilli powder. The trick is when you want a wholesome soup and you havent got a blender or fancy gadget, is to cut up/finely chop all ingredients saute add water or stock, boil for a few minutes, simmer for about 20 mins or so, and thats it. yes sometimes it can a case of trial and eror
good luck
ps.. i nicked this recipe to copy and paste into my pendrive.

[NazNomad]

http://www.theanswerb...k/Question954805.html

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[NazNomad]

Heaps of great 'proven' recipes here ... http://s6.zetaboards....tterbank/forum/12232/

[zzxxee]

im hungry now lol

[snowyball]

arghh thnks piggy, i'll give it a bash sometime this week! :)