Smoked tomato and basil soup

Name: How to cook Smoked tomato and basil soup - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Fittest Chef

Smoked tomato and basil soup

Its good to come back to basics. Sometimes basic dishes like tomato and basil soup are hard to get right. I tried to give it another depth and I smoked all the ingridients on my gas bbq using a smoking box. It worked. I ended up with about 6 portions of soup so Im gonna use next few days as a base for different dishes.

Ingredient

Food ration :

6 servings

500 g

plum tomatoes

450 g

vine tomatoes

200 g

celery

250 g

baby plum tomatoes

100 g

tomato puree

carrots (250 g)

100 g

white part of leek

red chilli (optional)

onion (300 g)

garlic cloves

1 tsp

balsamic vinegar

Half

a cup of fresh basil

100 g

fennel (optional)

1 tbsp

paprika

bay leaves

1 tsp

sugar

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Preheat your bbq and insert smoking box with wooden chips on flavour bar. Prep and wash all the ingredients. In a large skillet (I used dutch oven) start searing onions, celery, garlic and fennel. After few minutes add rest of ingredients. Close the bbq and start smoking. I ve done mine for about an hour.

* Step 2

After an hour cover vegetables with water. Add bay leaves, oregano and simmer for another hour

* Step 3

After that time add some more water if its needed. Add basil and cook it for another 10 min. Blitz it. Pass it thru the sieve. Add tomato puree. Whisk. Check seasoning. I always use nutmeg and a touch of sugar to get the perfect taste.

* Step 4

Recipe can be adjusted to house environment. Vegetables can be roasted in the oven for 20 min in 180 °C. Then all can be transfered to the pot and cooked on the stove.

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