Charred Plum Tomato and Plum Soup

Name: Charred Plum Tomato and Plum Soup
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 4-6 tablespoons soured cream or thick yoghurt; freshly ground black pepper; 1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 850 mls (1½ pints) vegetable stock; 1 celery stalk, trimmed and finely chopped; 6 ripe plums, stoned and chopped; 3-4 pieces sun-dried tomato; salt; basil; 12 ripe plum tomatoes

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

This is one of my favourite vegetable-and-fruit soup combinations and is best made at the end of the summer when tomatoes are at their sweetest and plums just coming into season.

Ingredients

12 ripe plum tomatoes
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion, peeled and finely cho

Soup
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Halve six of the plum tomatoes lengthways, and roughly chop the rest. Using a frying pan and a saucepan, put a tablespoon of olive oil in each. In the saucepan cook the chopped tomatoes and vegetables with the pieces of sun-dried tomato until soft, but without really browning them. Fry the halved tomatoes in the frying pan until the skin has turned dark brown, and then transfer them to the sauc