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Roasted Tomato Soup With Crispy Bacon

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Roasted Tomato Soup With Crispy Bacon

This vibrant summer soup is made with vine-ripened English tomatoes, oven roasted to bring out their natural sweetness.

  • Milk Free
  • Nut Free
Preparation time:
10 minutes
Cooking time:
20 minutes
Total time:
30 minutes 30 minutes
Serves:
 4

Ingredients

  • 2 packs Waitrose English Classic Vine Tomatoes, quartered (about 950g)
  • 2 red onions, thinly sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 6 rashers Waitrose Free Range Dry Cure Smoked Streaky Bacon
  • 2 Kallo Organic Chicken Stock Cubes
  • 4 tsp balsamic vinegar

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 220°C, gas mark 7. Place the tomatoes, red onion and garlic in a roasting tin and drizzle with the olive oil. Season and roast for 20 minutes until softened and slightly charred.
  2. Put the bacon onto a rack set over a baking sheet and place in the oven for the last 15 minutes of the tomatoes’ cooking time. Remove when crisp, leave to cool then break into pieces.
  3. Meanwhile, crumble the stock cubes into a large pan, add 1 litre of hot water, mix well and bring to the boil. Turn off the heat, add the roasted tomato mixture and whizz with a hand-held electric blender until smooth (or allow to cool slightly then pour into a blender in batches to liquidise).
  4. Ladle the soup into 4 bowls then drizzle with balsamic vinegar. Scatter a few pieces of crispy bacon into each bowl and serve with crusty French bread.

Cook's tips

This soup is also delicious served cold. Chill and serve with balsamic vinegar and torn Parma ham rather than crispy bacon.

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Berries

Berries 16 January 2011 15:21

Absolutely delicious!! This was the first time I have made soup and it was more than worth it. A nice simple recipe full of taste and comfort!

gerryloveswaitrose

gerryloveswaitrose 04 June 2009 19:07

Delicious and the only departure from the recipe was to use my own home-cured bacon made from Waitrose British pork belly.

luvtocook

luvtocook 09 April 2008 23:42

Home-made tomato soups can often lack flavour, but this really packs a punch.toasted. Very good served with toasted sun-dried tomato bread for a quick lunch.

Vivaldi

Vivaldi 29 September 2007 16:37

This is quick and utterly delicious. A great way to use up a glut of not quite perfect tomatoes through the summer. Bacon pieces are fantastic for the meat eaters in the family, parmesan and black pepper croutons (or Kettle chips!) for the veggies. And, making it with Kallo tomato stock cubes instead of chicken stock, works beautifully.

mollcat01

mollcat01 18 September 2007 19:14

Delicious recipe.Made more than four portions and I omitted bacon for my vegetarian daughter.Added pince of chilli powder to compensate.Freezes well.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 218.0kcal
Sugars 12.1g
Fat 13.5g
Saturated Fat 4.0g
Salt 1.7g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in August 2007