Plum Tomato, Orzo & Oregano

Name: Plum Tomato, Orzo & Oregano
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 stock cubes; 5 plum tomatoes, roughly chopped; 1 stick celery, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, chopped (or 1 teaspoon dried); 100 g orzo; 1 onion, peeled and diced into 2 cm cubes; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 carrot, peeled and diced into 2 cm cubes; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

This is almost posh spaghetti hoops, and it doesn’t take much longer than opening the tin and heating them up either. It uses a small pasta grain called orzo – if you can’t find this then risotto rice or 50g of small pasta would work. If you can find some fresh oregano then pick the leaves off a few sprigs instead of using dried.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and diced into 2 cm cubes
2

Soup
Summer
Vegetarian
July

Method

Heat a pot on a medium heat and add the oil or butter. Fry the onion, garlic, carrot and celery for 5–10 minutes until they soften.

Add the roughly chopped tomatoes along with the orzo and oregano, and mix everything together.

Pour in 1.2 litres of boiling water, crumble in the stoc