Tomato and Courgette Soup

This is a lovely combination. The Courgette takes the acidity from the tomato and makes it a very well rounded dish.

based on 51 reviews

Ingredients for 4

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Ingredients
3 1/2	cups	chopped tomatoes
2 1/8	cups	courgettes
1	onion	onion (medium size, 160g each)
3 1/2	tablespoons	fresh parsley
1 1/4	teaspoon	salt
1 1/4	teaspoon	sugar
2	cloves	fresh garlic (medium size, 3g each)
2	teaspoons	dried oregano
1/4	teaspoon	ground black pepper
8	tablespoons	white wine
1 1/4	tablespoon	olive oil
2	splashes	worcester sauce

Salt content: 0.5% (by weight, not counting salt in other ingredients)

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.

8	Great soup didn't put the wine in!
6	If you want to take the bland out of it, cook up a bacon bone to make a stock and add this to the soup.
10	I love cooking with tomato and courgette gluts and this is THE BEST soup recipe I've used with these ingredients. Thank you!
10	Very clear instructions. Accurate quantities. How I hate recipes that specify "cups"! And nice soup. I used fresh basil instead of oregano.
10	Yum. Made this as I have a glut of yellow courgettes. It is so delicious, quick and easy to make. Have saved this in my favourites and already forwarded the link to a friend! Served this with home made bread.
10	I love the whole site. You have really good basic recipes to help people. Photos make a big difference
10	Substituted the worcestershire sauce for spicy tomato ketchup, this worked really well.
6	It sounds great but unfortunately is a bit bland.
8	Lovely soup, and we didn't bother with the sugar or the wine as we had neither.
9	So clever that you do measures in metric and US 'cups' - I am forever finding great recipes online only to find they are measured in cups and I'm never quite sure I've got the right ones as apparently they differ between US, Australia etc.
10	Photos make it very easy to follow recipe but will cut the salt
10	Thanks - I know from the ingredients that it will be good. (I won't add salt if using tinned tomatoes as they contain enough salt for me)recipe)
9	Great clear recipe, tastes good. A little too much salt for my liking, I doubled the recipe and kept the salt the same and it is still a little salty.
10	I used a mix of fresh and chopped very easy to make with clear instructions would recommend.
10	excellent warming soup, but i used fresh tomatoes
10	not good
10	very clear easy to follow instructions, thanks.
8	I regularly have to make a soup of the day at work & used this recipe. It was great & had a wonderful flavour.
6	good tho tomato to courgette ratio is off
10	I have already made this soup twice and it's delicious! Great job :-)
5	It doesn't specify canned chopped tomatoes in the list of ingredients, it's only when you scroll down that this is stated
10	helps alot.....especially for newbies like me! thanks alot!
10	Great explanation. Photos help a lot.
10	this is good
6	This looks easy I'm going to try it and I bet I come back and Mark it a ten