Cream Of Tomato Soup With Pesto Food

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP WITH PESTO

Steps:

• Pour chicken broth into a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil until reduced by about 1/3.
• Pour in both cans of the tomatoes, and return to a simmer. Pour in the half-and-half, and turn heat to low. Simmer for 15 minutes. Puree in batches in a blender, or use an immersion blender in the pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Ladle into bowls, and swirl in a spoonful of pesto before serving.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot, melt butter. Add onion, garlic, carrot and red pepper and cook 3 to 5 minutes, until vegetables are softened and proscuitto is crisp.
• Stir in flour and cook an additional 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add canned tomatoes, broth, tomato paste, spices and sugar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Remove and discard bay leaf.
• In a food processor or blender, in batches, puree soup (optional.) Return to saucepan and stir in half-and-half. Season with salt and pepper to taste and heat an additional 3 to 5 minutes.
• Serve.

TOMATO PESTO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven at 180 C/ 350 F.
• Quarter both the roma and heirloom tomatoes. Cut the onions and carrots into big chunks.
• Place the tomatoes, carrots, onions and garlic on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle half teaspoon salt on top. Give everything a good toss and place in the oven to bake for an hour. Alternatively you can also grill all the vegetables on a grill pan on the stove with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of salt.
• Transfer the grilled vegetables with their juices into a blender. Add a cup of stock and blend till smooth.
• Transfer to a pot with the remaining stock and cook over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Add sugar, balsamic vinegar and chilli flakes and bring it to a quick boil.
• Finish with 2-3 tablespoons of the basil pesto.
• Taste the soup for seasoning and add more pesto and salt or pepper as required. Serve hot with grilled cheese, croutons or crackers.

CREAMY TOMATO SOUP WITH PESTO

Steps:

• Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot.
• Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, and celery into a food processor and grind until smooth.
• Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil.
• Reduce heat and then simmer 15 minutes.
• While soup cooks, make pesto, if not using storebought.
• Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed.
• Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor.
• Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste.
• Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again.
• Transfer watercress paste to a bowl.
• Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese.
• Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings.
• Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup.

TOMATO & BASIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the butter or oil in a large pan, then add the garlic and soften for a few minutes over a low heat. Add the sundried or SunBlush tomatoes, canned tomatoes, stock, sugar and seasoning, then bring to a simmer. Let the soup bubble for 10 mins until the tomatoes have broken down a little.
• Whizz with a stick blender, adding half the pot of soured cream as you go. Taste and adjust the seasoning - add more sugar if you need to. Serve in bowls with 1 tbsp or so of the pesto swirled on top, a little more soured cream and scatter with basil leaves.

CREAM OF FRESH TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions and carrots and saute for about 10 minutes, until very tender. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, sugar, tomato paste, basil, chicken stock, salt, and pepper and stir well. Bring the soup to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer, uncovered, for 30 to 40 minutes, until the tomatoes are very tender.
• Add the cream to the soup and process it through a food mill into a bowl, discarding only the dry pulp that's left. Reheat the soup over low heat just until hot and serve with julienned basil leaves and/or croutons.

FARMSTAND TOMATO SOUP WITH ARUGULA PESTO

Steps:

• To Make the Soup:
• Preheat the oven to 400°F. Set the cored tomatoes on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil and roast them until they look wrinkly, about 30 minutes; set aside. While the tomatoes cool, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil in a small sauté pan. Add the shallots and 2 cloves chopped garlic and sauté over medium-low heat until they turn golden brown and caramelized, 15 to 20 minutes; set aside.
• When the tomatoes are cool enough to handle, peel off the skins, which should slip off easily. Put the peeled tomatoes in the jar of a blender along with the sautéed shallots and garlic, crushed tomatoes (with juice), 1 tablespoon salt, and sugar. Process until the soup is smooth. Stir in the cream and vodka, if desired. Refrigerate in a covered bowl for at least 6 hours, or preferably overnight.
• To Make the Pesto:
• Toast the pine nuts, stirring occasionally, in a skillet set on medium heat until they turn golden brown, about 4 minutes. Combine the arugula, pine nuts, 2 cloves garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and lemon juice in the jar of a blender or the work bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade, then slowly add in the olive oil through the feed tube and process. Transfer the pesto to a bowl and stir in the Parmesan.
• To Serve:
• Ladle the chilled soup into individual serving bowls, and swirl 1 tablespoon of pesto into each.
• Do it early
• The soup can be made up to 4 days in advance and refrigerated. Ditto for the pesto. Both should be well covered. Arugula pesto does not brown when exposed to oxygen as does its more common cousin, basil pesto.
• Variation
• The more traditional-minded may prefer a basil pesto. Also, you can eliminate the cream and top the soup with a dollop of crème fraîche or Greek-style yogurt and a drizzle of pesto.