Basic Tomato Soup

Ingredients for Basic Tomato Soup recipe.
The final tomato soup mixture can be left with texture or the seeds and the skins can be sieved out like the above photo shows.

This is the basic tomato Soup which is my basic recipe for at least 20 different tomato soup recipes.
Ingredients

5 lbs--26--13 cups of tomatoes, all cut into 1/4s tomatoes

8 cloves of garlic chopped fine

2 potatoes diced fine( these help to thicken the soup)

3 onions diced fine

olive oil for frying about 6 tablespoons

1/4 cup of fresh marjoram chopped(or thyme/basil depending on your preference)

salt and pepper

vegetable stock, enough to cover the soup ingredients, it can be fresh, homemade or Swiss bouillon

Method

1. Put olive oil into a large pan , heat to medium heat and fry /sweat the garlic and onion , for about 5 minutes or until they are soft but not brown.

2. Add potatoes and fry for about 5 minutes.

3. Add the tomatoes and fry until they start to break down and become softer.

4. Add enough stock to just cover.

5. Cook for about 30minutes until they are soft.

6. Put all the soup through a blender

7. Get a large bowl and a metal sieve.

8. Pass all the soup from the blender through the sieve to get a fine soup.

9. Add salt and pepper to taste

10. Serve
This tomato soup is then used for at least 24 variations that I am going to write in the next blog.

Thanks for reading

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