Potage Aux Tomates
This is a tasty and healthy fresh tomato soup recipe, which will be a great addition to your family recipes. It is usually made when fresh tomatoes are abundant, ideally when they are less expensive, and you can make a large amount of the basic tomato purée and freeze it to make lots of smooth Potage Aux Tomates!
This soup is one of the most popular of soups with most family members, and this one is so good that it can be made for when you are entertaining your friends, and they will be impressed by your efforts.
The recipe here is, of course, a traditional French recipe, and it includes a good beef bouillon or beef stock. This was usually made at home too, but you can buy good beef bouillons nowadays in the supermarkets if you don't want to go to the trouble of making your own.
You can, of course, use a good vegetable stock if you would prefer your soup to be all vegetarian; it will be a good result too.
As you can see, this soup recipe will need a good Tomato Purée Recipe or make my Tomato Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes as the foundation for your soup. You may have some already in your freezer, but if you don't, there are instructions in the recipe card below on how to freeze it.
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Smooth Tomato Soup Recipe
Equipment
- heavy-bottomed pot
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh tomato purée or 1½ cups tomato sauce with or without the herbs
- 4½ cups beef bouillon or beef stock
- Salt and black pepper
- 2½ tablespoon semolina Semolina is a coarse, pale-yellow flour milled from durum wheat, a hard wheat species. Or use whatever flour you have on hand.
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 clove garlic crushed or finely chopped
- 1 lb tomatoes fresh tomatoes, roughly chopped
- ¼ teaspoon dried marjoram or basil
- A little salt sugar, and black pepper to taste
- ½ in strip of orange peel optional
Instructions
- Pour the olive oil into a heavy based saucepan and fry the onion gently for 5 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, the herbs and all the other ingredients.
- Bring to the boil then cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until completely mushy.
- Either press through a sieve or put in a liquidiser.
- Return to the pan and simmer until you have a thick tomato puree.
- You should taste the puree at this stage and adjust it to your liking.
- Pour the beef bouillon into a large heavy bottomed pan.
- Add the tomato purée and mix well.
- Bring to the boil then simmer for about 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle the semolina over the surface and mix in thoroughly, this will thicken it slightly.
- Season to taste with the salt and black pepper.
- Serve your tomato soup recipe with fresh crusty French bread or garlic croûtons.
Notes
- You can use my Simple Tomato Purée Recipe or Easy Tomato Sauce Recipe, keeping in mind to use less sauce and optional seasoning.
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