Chunky Tomato Soup

Chunky Tomato Soup with crispy fried salmon

Yet another very fast meal with little skill required. This soup is brilliant for showing off the quality of your home grown tomatoes or simply for enjoying the taste and bite of a real tomato.

Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 10 minutes

4 good sized tomatoes

1-2 cloves garlic

Fresh Coriander (cilantro)

1 onion (red for sweeter/ white for spicy)

1/2 Cup of water

To a To a VERY HOT wok or fry-pan (i.e. do NOT use Olive oil) lightly brown diced onions and finely diced garlic. Add diced fresh tomatoes and water with constant stirring adding salt, pepper and spice (Habanero...) to flavour.  Take off the heat and gently stir in chopped coriander. Serve as if or with topped with a fried fillet of salmon as shown.

Enjoy

Variation: Creamy Tomato soup

Creamy Tomato Soup with Crispy fried Salmon

Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

4 good sized tomatoes

1-2 cloves garlic

1/2 cup of Milk

1/4 tsp Baking soda (bicarb of soda)

1 pack (4 medium size heads) of salad use Japanese Spinach 

1 onion (red for sweeter/ white for spicy)

To a VERY HOT wok or fry-pan (i.e. do NOT use Olive oil) lightly brown diced onions and finely diced garlic. Add diced fresh tomatoes with constant stirring adding salt, pepper and spice (Habanero...) to flavour.

The tomatoes will break up a little bit and start to 'juice' you can add a small amount of water here.

Take off the heat and gently stir in chopped spinach (to prevent skinning your tomatoes).

Add a ¼ teaspoon of baking soda and SLOWLY add the milk with constant stirring (the baking soda will stop the milk from curdling)

For an extra creamy tomato soup stir in mascarpone cream (whipping cream will also work) a table spoon at a time until desired.

Serve as if or with topped with a fried fillet of salmon as shown.

Enjoy