Hot Soups
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup Recipe
This roasted red pepper and tomato soup recipe yields a smooth, richly flavored soup. It's prepared using red peppers, plum tomatoes, butter, onion, carrot, stock, crème fraiche, basil, and bread. Here is a simple step-by-step guide to making it.
a bowl of roasted red pepper and tomato soup
How to make roasted red pepper and tomato soup
Ingredients
0.8kg- Plum tomatoes
200g- Carrot
50g- Basil
1ltr- Stock
8- Red pepper
200g- Butter
200g- Onion
4tbsp-Crème fraiche
2 slices- bread
Directions
1. Core and remove the seeds from the pepper, then cut the tomatoes into halves.
2. Lightly sprinkle with butter and place on a tray into a hot oven until the pepper skins are blackened.
3. Allow the peppers to cool in a plastic bag. Then remove the skins and slice the flesh.
4. Put the butter in a pan and sauté the onions and carrots gently for 5 minutes.
5. Add the stock, pepper and tomatoes and bring to a boil.
6. Simmer for 30 minutes, adjust the seasoning, and blend until smooth.
7. Add crème fraiche and basil leaves torn into pieces and serve with croutons.
8. Serve hot in a bowl.