The Perfect Tomato Soup

Name: The Perfect Tomato Soup
Ingredients: For 4 people, an onion, a carrot, a medium potato and 1 or 2 celery stalks, olive oil. up to a kilo (2 lbs) of ripe, sweet tomatoes, salt and pepper, a generous handful of lovage, or, failing that, some sprigs of basil or tarragon, and milk.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

Tomato soup is only worth making for the few weeks of summer when the sun has had a chance to give the fruit some flavour. Even then, tomato is so acid that you need to add other ingredients to temper this. Soup made only of tomatoes is not very good.

Ingredients

You Need

For 4 people, an onion, a carrot, a medium potato and 1 or 2 celery stalks, olive oil. up to a kilo (2

Summer
Soup

Method

Peel and dice the vegetables (not the tomatoes) and fry them gently in a tablespoon or so of olive oil until the onion is translucent and golden, and the rest of the vegetables soft.

Add 2-3 tablespoons of water if necessary, to stop them burning. Add the tomatoes, roughly c