5.0 from 15 votes
Chilled Italian Roast Tomato Soup
This tomato soup is one of the best I have ever tried.
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 228 kcal
Course:
Soup
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- 1 kg ripe plum tomatoes washed and halved
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves unpeeled
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tsp light brown sugar
- 150 ml fresh homemade vegetable stock should you need it
- few quartered tomatoes to roast for garnishing
Pesto
- 1 generous handful basil leaves
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp pine nuts heaped
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180 C
- Place the tomatoes cut side up in a baking tray, add the whole garlic cloves and season well, sprinkle with the sugar and drizzle over the olive oil.
- Roast for about 45 minutes, until the tomatoes are lightly browned and beginning to ooze juice and then remove the tray from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Pick out the roasted garlic cloves and squeeze the soft flesh out of the husks onto a saucer.
- Place all the tomatoes and the squeezed out garlic pulp in a blender with all the juices from the roasting tray.
- Blend very well until the tomatoes are velvety smooth, add a little vegetable stock if the soup feels to thick and then check and correct the seasoning but remember the flavour will alter once it’s chilled so you’ll have to check again.
- Pour into a bowl and chill for about 5 hours, at least.
- Make the pesto in a pestle and mortar by combining the the basil, the garlic and the pine nuts, until you have a fine grained pulp and stir this into the olive oil – it has to be quite runny. Follow the instrucitons on how to make pesto here.
- Leave it to stand for a few hours will remove the sharpness of the garlic.
- Serve the soup with a quarter of lightly roasted tomato and some pesto drizzled over each serving.
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Nutrition Information
Calories
228kcal
(11%)
Carbohydrates
13g
(4%)
Protein
2g
(4%)
Fat
19g
(29%)
Saturated Fat
2g
(10%)
Sodium
163mg
(7%)
Potassium
616mg
(18%)
Fiber
3g
(12%)
Sugar
8g
(16%)
Vitamin A
2160IU
(43%)
Vitamin C
35.1mg
(39%)
Calcium
29mg
(3%)
Iron
0.9mg
(5%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4people
Amount Per Serving
Calories 228
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 228kcal | 11% |
| Carbohydrates | 13g | 4% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 19g | 29% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Sodium | 163mg | 7% |
| Potassium | 616mg | 13% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 8g | 16% |
| Vitamin A | 2160IU | 43% |
| Vitamin C | 35.1mg | 39% |
| Calcium | 29mg | 3% |
| Iron | 0.9mg | 5% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.