Tomato and Courgette SoupThis is a lovely combination. The Courgette takes the acidity from the tomato and makes it a very well rounded dish. |
Ingredients for 4
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Ingredients | |||
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800 | grams | chopped tomatoes | |
400 | grams | courgettes | |
1 | onion | onion (medium size, 160g each) | (160 grams) |
3 1/4 | tablespoons | fresh parsley | (10 grams) |
1 1/4 | teaspoon | salt | (8 grams) |
1 1/4 | teaspoon | sugar | (6 grams) |
2 | cloves | fresh garlic (medium size, 3g each) | (6 grams) |
2 | teaspoons | dried oregano | (2 grams) |
1/4 | teaspoon | ground black pepper | (0.8 grams) |
120 | mls | white wine | |
1 1/4 | tablespoon | olive oil | (20 mls) |
2 | splashes | worcester sauce | (4 mls) |
If you don't want to add wine, just use water.
Method
Chop the onions and garlic, fry in olive oil. Add the courgettes and the spices. Fry until courgettes are soft, then add the wine and the chopped tomatoes. Simmer for 10 minutes, then blend to your preferred consistency.
Add 3/4 of the chopped parsley and stir in, use the rest for decoration.
A lovely winter warmer.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Roughly chop the onion. | |
Pour the olive oil into a large saucepan. | |
Coarsely chop the garlic. | |
Quarter the courgettes and cut them into slices. | |
This will allow the courgettes to cook faster. | |
Heat up the olive oil and fry the onion and the garlic until translucent. | |
Now add the courgettes. | |
Add the salt, pepper and oregano. | |
And fry everything together until the courgettes are soft. | |
Now add the white wine (I'm using rose here as I didn't have any white). | |
Pour in your chopped tomatoes. | |
Now simmer the whole lot for another 10 minutes. | |
Cut the stems of the fresh parsley... | |
... and chop up the parsley. | |
Splash in some Worcestershire sauce ... | |
... sprinkle in the sugar .. | |
... and blitz the soup with a blender. Do this as finely or coarsely as you want (or don't blend it at all). I do this so my kids don't see anything suspiciously green in the soup. | |
Add 3/4 of the chopped parsley and mix in. | |
Serve with a sprinkle of chopped parsley. |