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tomato soup
© David Loftus

tomato soup

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I've made all sorts of different tomato soups over the years, and this is probably one of the simplest and tastiest. Here's the trick... if you go down to your local market at the end of the day you may find they are selling off tomatoes cheap. More than likely the seller thinks they are over-ripe, but they are more probably just perfect and will make great soup. If you can't get these, buy tomatoes two or three days before you need them, but don't keep them in the fridge as they won't ripen. Leave them on a windowsill to get ripe. If there's a choice then have a taste – you'll be amazed how different they can be, so choose the ones that taste the best. The second trick is the slow cooking, which makes them very sweet. Best served in warm bowls or mugs at the table with some really fresh bread.

Put your onion, garlic, carrot and basil stalks into a large pot with a couple of lugs of olive oil. Cover the pan, and simmer gently without coloring for 20 minutes, stirring every couple of minutes. Whisk together the cream, vinegar and egg yolks in a small bowl and put to one side. While the veg are simmering, drop the tomatoes into boiling water for 30 seconds, then remove the skins and roughly chop the flesh. Add these to the veg, then pour in the stock and simmer for a further 20 minutes with the lid on. At this point it's nice to purée the soup using either a food processor, a liquidizer or a hand-held blender, but be careful as it will be hot. Once you've puréed the soup, put it back into the pan, bring it back to a simmer, and season very carefully with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Just before serving, to enrich the soup and give it a shine and silky texture, whisk in the cream mixture (don’t reboil it after adding the egg yolks or it will scramble) and serve straight away, sprinkled with a few torn-up basil leaves, if you like.


• from Jamie's Dinners

ingredients


• 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
• 1 clove of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and coarsely grated
• a handful of fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks finely chopped
• olive oil
• 6 tablespoons double cream
• 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1kg super-ripe tomatoes
• 1.1 liters chicken or vegetable stock
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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1. by linda on Tue 15 May 2012 @ 04:58

Delicious and easy.<br /> I used less stock (1 litre) and next time I will use a little less, I prefer it thicker, other than that, it's a great soup.<br /> I froze it and reheated in the microwave. I was conerned the cream would curdle but it didn't.<br />

2. by Angelique on Mon 16 Apr 2012 @ 15:07

Can this be frozen and reboiled or will it scramble with the egg mixture?

3. by Angelique on Mon 16 Apr 2012 @ 15:04

If I make this soup, can I freeze it and then reboil it when I want or will it scramble? <br /> Or perhaps should I leave out the egg mixture and only do that part when rebooking after freezing?

4. by diana on Fri 13 Apr 2012 @ 14:28

super very good!!!!!!!

5. by Jo on Sat 17 Mar 2012 @ 14:27

Pretime (Joe Dunne) is about 8 minutes lol, the rest is cooking time, simmer for 20, puree, then simmer for about another 15, can cut it down if you need to x

6. by Zax on Sat 31 Dec 2011 @ 13:58

1.1 liters of chicken/vegetable stock is way too much since the tomatoes and carrots will release quite a lot of juices when you cook them. Around 500ml of stock should be ok, though I have yet to try this out. I used 1kg of tomato, 2 carrots, 1 onion and 2 cloves of garlic. I only blended the vegetable ingredients (I took them out of the soup using a straining ladle) and the volume came up to around 1.2L - which by itself would be able to comfortably feed 4 people.

7. by Kalisha on Fri 16 Dec 2011 @ 08:12

Hi, For the muslims you can substitute red wine vinegar for fruity vinegar like apple vinegar, grape vinegar or promegenate vinegar. it will a slightly different effect but still tatse delicious!

8. by beanie on Thu 01 Dec 2011 @ 17:14

What do I use instead of the vinegar (I'm allergic to it)?

9. by PB on Wed 09 Nov 2011 @ 15:38

Being a vegetarian I would skip the egg yolks, fry some croutons and add them to the thin soup and add a dash of cream at the end. A bit of 'Indian' flavor that I like adding to the soup is cumin.

10. by Nicole on Tue 08 Nov 2011 @ 11:03

Aima... It doesn't have Red Wine in the recipe, its Red Wine Vinegar which is made from red wine but its a vinegar. Just leave it out if you really don;t want to use it, I've made a different tomato soup before and not used red wine vinegar because I don't have any at home and it tasted lovely

11. by Aima on Tue 01 Nov 2011 @ 11:33

may I asked..... I'm not a good cook by the way....what is the substitute for a red wine....as I'm a muslim but I'd really love to try this recipe...help me here pleaseeee!!!

12. by Marcus Aurelius on Sat 29 Oct 2011 @ 21:10

waw ce descoperire ! supa de rosiiiiiiiiiiiii

13. by Mike on Mon 08 Aug 2011 @ 18:24

Why remove the skins? It all adds to the character.

14. by Lizze on Fri 17 Jun 2011 @ 14:45

Excelent soup!<br /> Let me advise you to add grated swiss cheese into the soup before serving it. The cheese will melt and add flavor to the soup.<br /> Besides, you can add dried crust (just like the one you use for Ceasar salad.<br />

15. by charlie08 on Sun 05 Sep 2010 @ 16:28

hiya can anyone reccomend how many tomatoes to use for this soup please? thanks :)

16. by Neiltm on Sun 21 Mar 2010 @ 18:18

Having made the soups from ministry of food , I found i had to reduce the stock from 1.8 liters to 1.4 to make the soup thick like the picures. Has anyone who has made this one had to reduce the stock from 1.1 liters or is this fine to make the soup thick and creamy like the picture suggests?

17. by Bronwyn on Wed 10 Mar 2010 @ 05:08

I have most of your recipe books and like to cook, but I have food sensitivities to wheat and gluten products, dairy, eggs, yeast, dried beans, beef, onion and garlic mostly. There are some fruits and vegies as well.
This makes cooking interesting meals a nightmare a lot of the time as I also have to cook for husband and two children (who also have some of above sens). I try to substitute as much as possible, but the recipes don't always turn out as they should.
Do you have ideas to help?

18. by Paul on Tue 27 Oct 2009 @ 19:20

Great soup. I even jazzed it up a bit and added chorizo! Nice...........

Paul

19. by Ahmed on Tue 08 Sep 2009 @ 05:45

Your work is brilliant! Watching your series is an excellent relief from days' tension! Please add alternatives to the ingredients when they have alchoholic elements so that fellow Muslims can use them too.

20. by Ana on Thu 09 Jul 2009 @ 22:29

I did this soup today and it's so delicious!!! I eat it with slices of ciabatta bread: Yamie!

21. by becky on Sat 13 Jun 2009 @ 11:06

hi jamie i luv you!
uim makin a start at scholl but i dnt no wt 2 cook, i was thinkin of making a tomato soup or a waldraf salad! but not sure which one
i gotta cook on tuesday, i choosed catering for one of my options and i am glad that i did. i think ill make tomato soup

22. by Josephine, Sweden on Fri 15 May 2009 @ 16:06

I love this soup. I double the recepie and put it in the freezer. I have it to all kind of diches. Tonight it will be togheter with canelloni filld with turky and spinach...jammie!

23. by Joe Dunne on Mon 16 Mar 2009 @ 13:59

What is the preparation time. I am doing a project at school.

:)

24. by hungry jo on Sat 14 Feb 2009 @ 19:55

I made this soup today, It was lovely! .... with some crusty french stick thick butter, very filling..

Even the kids loved it, would recommend it :-)

25. by MOGABA on Tue 27 Jan 2009 @ 18:29

GREAT SOUP, ALL TIME FAVOURITE. M M M M M !

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