Homemade tomato soup

Name: Homemade tomato soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: british
Ingredients: 1.25 kg ripe tomatoes; 1 onion; 1 carrot; 1 celery stick; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 tsp tomato purée; 1 pinch sugar; 2 bay leaves; 1.2 litres vegetable stock

Fresh tomatoes and a few everyday vegetables make a warming bowl.

1.25 kg ripe tomatoes
1 onion
1 carrot
1 celery stick
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp tomato purée
1 pinch sugar
2 bay leaves
1.2 litres vegetable stock

Core and quarter tomatoes. Chop onion, carrot and celery, then soften them in oil over low heat for 10 minutes.
Stir in tomato purée, tomatoes, sugar and bay leaves. Cover and cook gently for 10 minutes. Add hot stock, then cover and simmer for 25 minutes.
Remove bay leaves. Blend safely with a stick blender, or cool before using a jug blender. Reheat gently and season to taste.

Inspired by Jeni Wright’s recipe for Good Food · Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomato_soup.jpg)