Soups

• Jamie's Roast Cherry Tomato Soup
• Seldersoep
• Preisoep met spek

Jamie's Roast Cherry Tomato Soup

Ingredients

• 1kg ripe cherry tomatoes on the vine,red and yellow if you can get them
• 4 large tomatoes
• 1 fresh red chilli
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 ciabatta loaf
• 2 small red onions
• 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• a small bunch of fresh basil
• a few dollops of creme fraiche, to serve

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220C
2. Pull the tomatoes off the vines, but leave some of their green tops on.
3. Quarter the larger tomatoes,then put all the tomatoes into a roasting tray.
4. Drizzle over a good lug of olive oil and season. Halve and deseed the red chilli and add to the tray.
5. Crush in 4 peeled cloves of garlic.
6. Quickly toss everything, then put on the top shelf of the oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
7. Get another roasting tray and rip the ciabatta loaf into 8 equal chunks. Add a good lug of olive oil, a pinch of salt and whack on to the bottom shelf of the oven.
8. Peel and roughly chop the onions and put them into the hot saucepan with a lug of olive oil and a good pinch of salt. Turn the heat up to medium and leave to soften, stirring occasionally.
9. Stir 4 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar into the onions and let it cook away and reduce down.
10. Take the tray of tomatoes out of the oven and add everything to the pan of onions.
11. Check on the croutons - if they are crisp and golden turn off the oven, but leave them in there to keep warm.
12. In 2 batches, carefully pour the vegetables from the saucepan into a liquidizer.
13. Add most of the basil, put the lid on, cover with a tea towel and whiz to a fairly rustic consistency, pouring the mixture into a large pan or serving bowl as you go.
14. Once finished, mix well, season to taste and top with a dollop of créme fraiche, a few basil leaves and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Take to the table with a stack of soup bowls and the tray of croutons from the oven.
15. Put a crouton or two in the bottom of each soup bowl. Ladle the soup on top.

Notes

• Just use an immersion blender in the pot with the onions instead of a food processor.

Seldersoep

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Ingredients

• 4 witte selderstelen, in kleine stukjes
• 1 ui gesnipperd
• 1 kleine aardappel
• een klontje boter
• 500ml kippenbouillon
• 2 el room

Method

1. Smelt de boter in een pan en voeg de selder, de ui en de fijngesneden aardappel toe. 
2. Giet er de bouillon bij en laat 20 minuten koken.
3. Mix de soep fijn en breng op smaak met peper en zout.
4. Meng de room onder de soep.

Notes

• bulleted

Preisoep met spek

Ingredients

• 1 sjalot (gesnipperd)
• 1 teentje knoflook
• 4 preiwitten
• 4 aardappelen
• 2el bieslook (fijngesneden)
• 1l kippenbouillon
• 150ml kookroom
• 1tl currypoeder
• 100gr gerookte spekblokjes
• boter
• olijfolie

Method

1. Fruit de sjalot met de geperste look in een scheutje olijfolie. Voeg de prei toe en bak even mee.
   Kruid met het currypoeder. Voeg de aardappelen en kippenbouillon toe. Breng aan de kook en laat 25 minuten zachtjes pruttelen.
2. Bak ondertussen het spek in een droge koekenpan krokant. Voeg het groen van de prei toe en bak kort mee.
   Giet de room bij de soep en mix glad. 
3. Schep de soep in borden of kommen. Verdeel er het krokant gebakken spek met de prei over en werk af met de bieslook.