Sun Dried Tomato Cream Soup Food

SUN DRIED TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat medium size pot on low heat and swirl oil to coat. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds, stirring occasionally. Add tomatoes and cook for 8-10 minutes, increasing heat to medium and stirring occasionally.
• Add sun dried tomatoes, coconut milk, water or broth and salt. Stir, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and using an immersion blender puree until smooth. Add ground black pepper to taste and serve hot garnished with basil. Sprouted toast would be nice too.

CREAM OF SUN-DRIED TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large pot over moderate heat.
• Add the onion, celery, carrot, and garlic and sauté until tender but not brown, about 5 minutes.
• Add the stock, tomatoes, potato, sun-dried tomatoes, and basil.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer covered for 20 minutes, until the vegetables are tender.
• Puree in a food processor, or blender, in small batches until smooth.
• Strain through a fine sieve if desired.
• Stir in the milk or cream and season with sugar, salt, and pepper.
• Serve garnished with chopped chives.
• This soup gets an additional tomato punch from the concentrated flavor of the sun-dried tomatoes.

SUN-DRIED TOMATO CREAM SOUP

Steps:

• Puree sundried tomatoes and 1 cup tomato juice in blender. Blend until smooth.
• Place the remaining cup of tomato juice and the blended mixture in a saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over medium high heat.
• Remove from heat, add cream, salt and pepper.
• Return to the stove and cook over low heat until soup is heated through. Do not boil.
• Garnish with basil and serve.

SUN-DRIED TOMATO CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• In a non-stick pan, melt 1 tbsp of butter over medium heat.
• Saute the garlic.
• Stir in sun-dried tomatoes, whipping cream & brandy.
• Simmer over medium heat until reduced by half.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Just prior to serving, whisk in butter.
• Stir in the cooked bow tie pasta.
• Toss with fresh basil.
• Serve.

VEGETARIAN TOMATO CREAM SOUP WITH SUNDRIED TOMATOES.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Put the sundried tomatoes in a heatproof bowl and cover with 4 cups of boiling water.
• Drain the canned tomatoes and preserve the liquid. Cut them in 1/2 and put in a shallow roasting pan. My oven is only big enough for an 8x8 pan and it works for this as well. Try to drain the tomato juice from the roasting pan after you've finished putting them in there, and keep the liquid. Draining will help them roast better.
• Drizzle with two tablespoons of olive oil and sprinkle with thyme.
• Roast in the oven for about 30 minutes. If you used a more shallow pan, the tomatoes will be drier and browned. In the 8x8 it just gives them a nice flavor. You can roast them for longer if you want them to be drier.
• Once the tomatoes are done roasting, pour the soaking liquid from the sundried tomatoes into the roasting pan. It sounds gross, but it's totally good. Trust me. Roughly chop the sundried tomatoes too and add those to the roasting pan also. Break up the roasted tomatoes and scrape up the browned bits at the bottomg at the same time while mixing all of this together.
• Heat the remaining olive oil in a soup pot over medium to medium-high heat (whatever is appropriate for your cookwear). When hot, add the garlic and cook until it begins to change color - about 1 minute. Add the carrot and onion and cook until they start to sweat - about 3 minutes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then add the honey and stir until it melts.
• Add the reserved liquid from the canned tomatoes and stir for a few minutes - until the liquid begins to darken. Add the stock and the contents of the roasting pan (at this point, it's the whole peeled tomatoes, the sundried tomatoes, and the soaking liquid for the sundried tomatoes). Chop the basil and add it to the soup.
• Turn the heat up and bring the soup to a boil and the lower so it boils gently. Cover and cook for 30 minutes. (It can cook for longer too, but only needs about 30 minutes. I think it tastes a bit better when it cooks for about an hour).
• Turn off the heat and let it the soup stop boiling and cool a bit. Use an immersion blender to puree the soup. (Or you can let the soup cool to room temperature and puree it in a blender and return to the pan and reheat). Stir in heavy cream and serve or make ahead and reheat when you're ready. This stores will in the refrigerator - I haven't tried in the freezer.

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.