Name: Tomato Soup (Domates Çorbasi)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon caster (superfine) sugar; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) tomatoes, blanched, peeled and quartered; extra virgin olive oil (cold version) or 40 g (1½ oz) butter (hot version)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Istanbul Cult Recipes

By Pomme Larmoyer

Published 2015

About

This simple soup is served in two ways: cold and dressed with olive oil in summer, and hot with butter in winter.

Ingredients

1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) tomatoes, blanched, peeled and quartered
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Method

Put the tomatoes in a large saucepan, and cover with lightly salted water. Add the sugar, and stir to dissolve. Cover the pan, and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes until the tomatoes are soft. Puree the soup in a blender or food processor. Dress with a drizzle of olive oil if serving chilled or the melted butter if serving hot.