Best Tomato Soup Recipe

I opened one of the cupboard doors the first thing that caught my eye was tomato soup. Ideas cakes flooding to me from what my mate Edward did recently at My Little Spanish Place. I also used some experiences of the Balinese Volcano Corn Soup that I made. I came up with this, The best tomato soup recipe.

This is fun, delicious, quite unique, gets everyone involved, and it really is.

Stage I of Best Tomato Soup Recipe, is the soup stock

• 1 litre of tomato soup;
• 3/4 of a litre of chicken stock;
• 2 teaspoons of smoked paprika;
• 4 garlic cloves chopped finely;
• 1 red onion chopped finely; and
• A good pinch of salt and pepper.

Place all this in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, and then reduce to a simmer for about 20 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes or so.

Stage II of Best Tomato Soup Recipe is the accompaniments

• Half a packet of smoky streaky bacon, cut in to thin strips. Get this in a dry pan and fry until browned and crispy;
• 3-4 young celery stalks sliced very finely;
• 4 finely sliced Spring onions;
• 4 finely sliced button mushrooms; and
• 1 finely sliced Jalapeño pepper.

Stage III of Best Tomato Soup Recipe is the plating and serving

• Serve the soup into a bowl, and place a sprig of young celery leaf on top;
• On a small platter neatly arrange the bacon, celery stalks, Spring onion, mushroom and Jalapeño.

Now you can make your very own soup, using my best tomato soup recipe. Have a couple of spoons of the soup, and then add in all the accompaniments. What a difference. How simple, how amazing. Looks pretty damned good. Tastes damned good. And it is good fun to boot! Enjoy!!!