Tasty soup recipe

This is a recipe for a roasted red pepper and tomato soup. It's delicious :)

4 whole red bell peppers
1 medium sized red onion
6 large tomatoes, or a packet of baby plum / cherry tomatoes. I used 1 1/2 packs of piccolo cherry tomatoes on the vine.
4 cloves of garlic unpeeled
Drizzle of olive oil
Roughly 1 tbsp dried oregano
4 stock cubes
1tsp of sugar

1 large baking tray
Blender / Hand blender
Large Saucepan
Bowl
Sieve (unless you want to pick the tomato seeds out seperately)

Optional: Fresh basil and fresh chillis or chilli powder

Add to the baking tray the onion (quartered and peeled), red peppers (whole) and garlic (unpeeled and whole) and OPTIONAL Chillis. Sprinkle lightly with olive oil and the dried oregano.
Roast at 180 degrees / Gas 4 for about 20 minutes
Add the tomatoes (whole), mix everything and turn it over and roast for a further 10-15 minutes

The skin on the peppers should begin to blister a bit and go slightly black and the onions and garlic will be soft and nicely browning. The tomatoes will split and go very soft. Don't add these too soon or they will just disintegrate.

Once the ingredients have finished roasting and have cooled a bit, peel the skin from the garlic and add these and the onions to a pan
Leave the peppers to one side to cool. If you pop them slightly and drain the water they will cool quicker.
Pick the skin from the tomatoes, discard the skin and add the tomatoes to the pan
Once the peppers have cooled, peel the skin off and deseed them. Add them to the pan.
Dissolve 4 vegetable stock cubes in 850ml of boiling water
Add to the pan and give everything a stir
Optional: Add half a pack (10g-ish) of basil leaves

Using a hand blender (or a normal blender, a little bit at a time) blitz everything up until it's smooth
Sieve the soup to remove the tomato seeds

I didn't have fresh basil, so I added a tiny sprinkle of dried to my sample portion before eating it. It worked fine.

Very very tasty soup, roasting the ingredients really adds to the depth of flavour.

Ahh nice one bitter lemon!

That sounds really good - love veggie soups.

mm so do I, I love wamr food even in the summer it's just so tasty!  Homemade soup is always so much better than tinned soup, much less salt and much tastier!

That sounds lovely, thanks!

It's very nice light soup. If you're eating it as a meal you would need a big bowful or some bread to dip in it. Sundried tomato bread would go well.

The soup could also be improved with freshly made vegetable stock, this would also reduce the salt levels. We're trying chicken mulligatawny and butternut squash and sweet potato soup this weekend. I will update with the recipes if they turn out well

They sound really nice, love butternut squash so would like to try that recipe! I love making soup, it always tastes so much better than ready bought stuff.

Has anyone tried making cold soup? I had this really nice fruity berry one on a cruise once - it was really tasty and refreshing.

I'll definitely try that out. It sounds healthy and delicious. Also the recipe is nicely explained.

Did you have it as a starter for a main meal? I can't imagine having something I would think of as being a pudding, as a starter...

I've had a cold gazpacho soup which is nice. A fruity berry one sounds quite unusual, never had anything like that before! Was it really sweet?

Yeah, although I guess it's kind of like having melon for your starter. We had a beast of a main meal, so it was nice to have a light starter.

Ah well that sounds perfect then. I can't hack eating three massive courses.