Tomato Soup Recipes: Ingredients of a Good Appetizer
Soups are common before having an exquisite meal especially in fine
dining. Tomato soup dishes have different variations depending on the
main course since tomato soups must fit in with the menu.
Here are the main ingredients of a Tomato Soup appetizer:
¼ kg fresh garden tomatoes
 1 large skin white onion
3 garlic cloves
8 tablespoons of olive oil
Tomato sauce (preferably in can)
½ kg fresh shrimp
Salt and pepper (for flavoring)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/8th of a teaspoon clove
1 tablespoon dried basil
3 to 4 bay leaves
½ tablespoon butter
Most vegetarians would prefer their tomato soup dishes to be composed of
many vegetable ingredients while the traditional tomato soup would
either compose of pork, seafood, beef, or chicken depending on the
preference of the person cooking it.
Directions for cooking:
- Add 8 tablespoons of olive oil on a pot and wait until it heats
up before putting ½-tablespoon butter. Makes sure that the butter is
not brown scorched. Sauté white onions with garlic in the pot
together with butter.
- Quarterly slice the onion into thin slices and remove the seeds
before mixing it with the white onions in the frying pot. Stir in
order to separate the white onions from the tomatoes.
- Place together in the pot the bay leaves, brown sugar, basil,
gloves and newly sliced garlic as well. Simmer on low heat and stir
for at least forty-five minutes (simmering with the use of low heat
is very important in order to cook well the ingredients) mix
additional vegetables if preferred. Meat on the other hand must not
be mixed directly in the pot but cooked separately.
- Remove the bay leaves from the pot and disregard them since you
would not need them anymore. Let the soup cool down for at least
fifteen minutes and remove as many tomato skins possible.
- Puree the soup in a blender in order to shred all remaining
tomato skins and onions and place it back to the pot. Use a strainer
if necessary to drain the remaining tomato skins and seeds.
- Add the tomato sauce to the pot (tomato paste can be used as an
alternative however add water in order to make the tomato paste a
bit watery) and then simmer for an additional 15 minutes.
- Add vegetable broth flavoring and use salt and pepper to add
additional flavor to the soup.
Additional toppings can be added such as fresh onion leaves. Add the
cooked meat together in the pot.
Tomato soup appetizers mix well with continental and European meals.
Soup from tomato on the other hand is best served while hot where in
some other parts of the world, tomato soups are mixed with chili sauce
for an additional twist.
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