Rich and full tomato flavour with a hint of basil.
Tomato & Basil Soup
Course: Appetizers, SoupsCuisine: GeneralDifficulty: EasyServings
12
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
1
hour20
minutesTotal time
1
hour30
minutesRich and delicious tomato soup, my son’s favourite 🙂
Ingredients
3kg of ripe red organic tomatoes
2 medium onions
About 30-40 basil leaves
250ml filtered water
Salt and pepper to taste
4 tablespoons Olive Oil
Directions
- Very finely chop the onions.
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and add the onions. Stir and cook until soft.
- Meanwhile using a food processor, blend up all the tomatoes whole and put aside in a bowl.
- Add the tomatoes and water to the onions in the saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Add the basil leaves and some salt (1-2 tsp). You can add more salt later.
- Simmer over a low heat for 60-90 minutes until the soup starts to reduce and the colour starts to go deep red and orange.
- Once the soup is the consistency you are happy with (not too watery, but not too thick), pass it through a sieve to remove the seeds.
- You will need to use a spatula to keep moving the soup around in the sieve and pressing it through. Keep going until you are only left with a “seed paste”. Remove this from the sieve and go again until you have sieved all the soup.
- Serve with some fresh basil leaves and cracked black pepper over the top.
