Love Apple Soup for Valentine’s Day
This Delicious, Warming, Luscious Tomato and Garlic Soup is perfect to get Valentine's Day started.Vegan, Vegitarian
Ingredients
Soup
- 650 g Tomato Vine Ripened
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 60 ml Olive Oil Extra Virgin
- 450 ml Vegetable Stock
- Salt
- Black Pepper
Garnish
- 1 slice Crusty Loaf Bread
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil Extra Virgin
- 1/2 clove Garlic
- 1 handful Ghoa Cress
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C or 400°f
- Put tomatoes and the 4 cloves of Garlic into a roasting dish (single layer)
- Drizzle 45ml (3 tbsp) of olive oil over the top and allow to roast for around 30 minutes or until tomatoes begin to split open and garlic has softened
- Heat the remaining olive oil in a saucepan, add onion and gently fry until soft
- Remove the skins from the garlic and combine with the roasted tomatoes, onions, and all remaining juices from the roasting pan
- Pour in stock, bring to the boil and simmer with a lid on for 20 minutes
- Cool, then blend until the soup is very smooth, paying particular attention to the tomato skins, we want then to be well blended.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- For an extra Valentine's Day feel add heart shaped croutons, either cut by hand or using a heart shaped cutter.
- Add olive oil and finely garlic to a fresh frying pan, heat for 1 minute then add and fry croutons until golden brown.
- Serve Soup in pre-warmed soup bowls, top with a handful of Ghoa Cress and if you wish the heart shaped croutons.