Tomato soup

Ingredients:

  • 20 spoonfuls olive oil
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 leek
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 700 grams ripe tomatoes
  • 850 ml chicken stock
  • 2 spoonfuls tomato concentrate
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • Sugar
  • ½ ciabatta bread
  • 12 basil leaves
  • Extra virgin olive oil
Sopa de tomàquet

Method:

  • 1

    Heat up the oil in a large pot.

     

  • 2

    Add the onion, leak and garlic cloves. Cook these ingredients over a low flame, until they are soft.

  • 3

    Put the tomatoes into a bowl and cover them with boiling water. Leave them for a minute.

  • 4

    Strain the tomatoes and cover them with cold water. Leave them for another minute.

  • 5

    Then peel the tomatoes, chop them into pieces and add them to the onion, leak and garlic mixture. Add the chicken stock, tomato concentrate, salt and pepper. Add a pinch of sugar as well. That will help to bring out the flavour of the tomatoes.

  • 6

    Add the mixture to boiling water, cover the pot with a lid and cook over a low flame for 30 minutes.

  • 7

    Cut up the bread into pieces and add it to the various soup dishes you will be serving the soup with.

  • 8

    Finally, add the basil and pour the soup over the bread. Before you serve, you can drop a dash of extra virgin olive oil into the soup.

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