Tomato soup recipe..... yummm!!

RECIPE: 1 large carrot

1 stick of celery

2 onions (brown/yellow will give a sweeter taste, purple will be tangy)

crushed garlic to taste

450g/1lb tomatoes

2 tbspns olive oil.

1.2 litres water

1 vegetable Knorr stock pot (or similar) - google that if you've never heard of it!

salt/pepper

Chop up the carrot, celery and onions and fry in a big soup pan in the olive oil until soft.  Add crushed garlic.  Meanwhile, cut the tomatoes in half and add to the softened veggies.  Add salt & pepper.  Stir for about 5 minutes until all the veggies are part cooked.  Add in the water and vegetable stock and simmer for about 40 minutes.  Blitz the soup with a liquidizer - we use a hand held one similar to this

- blend until the vegetables have been totally blitzed and it's a thick soup.  Add basil leaves and then eat.  

This is our favourite soup recipe!!!