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bread and tomato soup
© David Loftus

bread and tomato soup

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This Tuscan soup is delicious – it's a soup everyone should try. Just thinking of it makes me salivate! It's a family-friendly soup – babies and grandparents (both without teeth!) can eat it with gusto. I've added roasted cherry tomatoes to my recipe but it also works really well just with tinned. The great thing is that it only takes 20 minutes to cook, so go for it! PS. Use a stale white cottage-style loaf – not cheap sliced white factory bread.

Prick the cherry tomatoes and toss them with one sliced clove of garlic and a quarter of the basil leaves. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put them in a roasting tray and cook in the oven at 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4 for about 20 minutes. The reason for doing this is so that their flavor becomes intense and concentrated.

Heat a glug of olive oil in a large pot and add the remaining garlic and the basil stalks. Stir around and gently fry for a minute until softened. Add your tinned tomatoes, then fill the tin with water and add that. Break the tomatoes up with a spoon, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes.

Tear the bread up into thumb-sized pieces and add them to the pan. Mix well and season to taste. Tear in the basil leaves and let the soup sit on a low heat for 10 minutes. By this time your roasted tomatoes will be done, with juice bursting out of their skins, so remove them from the tray, remembering to scrape all the lovely sticky bits from the bottom. Pour them into the soup with all the juices, basil and oil from the tray.

Give the soup a good stir – you're looking to achieve a thick, silky, porridgey texture, so feel free to adjust it with a little water. Then remove it from the heat and add 6 or 7 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Divide between your bowls and serve with a little extra basil torn over the top if you like. The most important thing with this soup is that you have a wonderfully intense sweet tomato basil flavour.


• from Jamie's Italy

ingredients


• 500g ripe cherry tomatoes
• 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely sliced
• a large bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks finely chopped
• the best extra virgin olive oil you can find
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 x 400g tins of good-quality plum tomatoes
• 500g or 2 large handfuls of stale good-quality bread

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1. by Josefine on Sat 12 May 2012 @ 14:57

I just did it with plum tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes and it worked just as well, although cherry tomatoes are nicer. Also, I tried with seeded bread, which gives it a really nice texture to go with the tomato seeds. An extra tip is add a pinch of sugar! It brings out the taste beautifully and thickens the soup.

2. by Brendan on Tue 13 Mar 2012 @ 23:51

This is a great soup! Lots of salt and pepper really drew out the beautiful roast tomato flavours. I also added some boconcini to the bowls! And for personal taste I added a bit less bread. But once again, really great recipe Jamie

3. by jazzy on Fri 10 Feb 2012 @ 12:05

very nice! it was very yummy!

4. by Tamsyn on Tue 13 Sep 2011 @ 15:06

Just tried this and loved it! Will definitely try it again. Can't believe how simple that was!<br />

5. by MISS JLS on Thu 09 Jun 2011 @ 10:47

THIS LOOKS SOOOOO GOOD CANT WAIT TO TRY IT

6. by vi on Sat 04 Jun 2011 @ 06:49

that was super delicious!!

7. by Lil Irish mama on Fri 15 Apr 2011 @ 15:54

AMAZING!!!! used fire roasted tomatoes tinned and it was awesome!!!

8. by aalina387 on Sun 13 Feb 2011 @ 06:46

its such a good way to use your stale bread.its such a delicious recipe.i just love this recipe.

9. by Sarah on Sun 20 Dec 2009 @ 18:03

I made this soup last christmas as a starter for my family xmas dinner. It was great because there was 15 of us so easy to make and great to go around. Everybody loved it so I have been asked to make it again this year. Thanks for a beautifull tasty recipe.

10. by Johanna on Wed 07 Oct 2009 @ 08:44

Very nice soup!

11. by Trace on Sat 13 Jun 2009 @ 19:48

Hi
I made a huge pot of this soup and will drop some off to a friend who is going through a stressful time. Nothing feels better than a bowl of great soup and some crusty bread.
Thanks.

12. by Dan on Wed 13 May 2009 @ 00:09

tasted fantastic.... such a good way to use up your stale bread!!!

13. by Grimes on Sat 28 Feb 2009 @ 16:19

so simple and delicious! always a big hit at dinner parties!

14. by SHA on Tue 24 Feb 2009 @ 06:18

To Jamie: Amazing recipe. I loved it.

To commentator No. 9: It's Staphylococcus aureus.

15. by charli on Wed 18 Feb 2009 @ 18:17

thought this was great soooooooo tasty and easy to make this is one to remember

16. by CJ on Thu 15 Jan 2009 @ 14:30

I've just gave this recipe a go and I just love it. I've left out the basil as I do not have fresh or dried ones but it tasted just as nice! A******** recipe! oh I did add some sugar though as I did not like it too sour. A MUST try!!

17. by claudia on Sun 04 Jan 2009 @ 20:53

Hi, my name is Claudia and I enjoy seeing Jamie on tv cooking so easily. Last saturday I saw him making this recipe and like so much. So, tomorrow i´m going to buy some fresh food to cook it for my husband.
Jumaolster, its a good idea to add parmesan cheese to finish the "pappa pomodoro", and add cherry tomatoes, its a good idea too.

Have a nice year 2009!

18. by Carolina Sá on Fri 26 Dec 2008 @ 21:45

Tenho um companheiro que tem dificuldades para traduzir as receitas.
Ufa!!!

19. by Marcelo Silva on Wed 10 Dec 2008 @ 01:41

Olá pessoal
Gostaria de fazer a sopa de tomate e pão, mas se alguém puder traduzir para a língua portuguesa a receita, ficarei grato

20. by Victoria on Fri 05 Dec 2008 @ 13:27

Im have tried this recipe ad i really like it i have made it soo many times and i LOVE it!!!!!

21. by chefsoul on Wed 26 Nov 2008 @ 17:26

mmmm sounds good i feel a cold coming on i think many of your soup recipes will be popular so easy for me to make aswell im only 12 yumm

22. by Staphylicoccus Aureous on Fri 10 Oct 2008 @ 09:52

mmmmmhmmmmmm!!!

23. by Jumaolster on Sat 04 Oct 2008 @ 13:05

Fast version when everyone is screaming with hunger:
dump a garlic clove with olive oil and tomato sauce from a jar in a pan,
toast some bread, slice and quarter it and put into pan
add some basil or anything you like
after five minutes, sprinkle grated parmesan cheese over it all
ready!!!!

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