Smooth Tomato Soup Recipe
A homemade tomato soup recipe that you will want to make regularly and never open another can.
Ingredients
- 575 milliliter/1 pint fresh tomato purée
- 1.3 liters/2¼ pints beef bouillon
- Salt and black pepper
- 25 gram/1o ounce semolina
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 clove of garlic crushed or finely chopped
- 1 lb of fresh ripe 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.
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