ROASTED TOMATOES AND GARLIC SOUP WITH CHEESE TOASTS

ROASTED TOMATOES & GARLIC SOUP 

WITH CHEESE TOASTS

Serves 4
Time  35 minutes

Tomato soup
10 to 12 medium tomatoes
1 whole bulb garlic cut in half
1 big onion quartered
2 leeks sliced
1 red bell pepper quartered
2 cups vegetable/chicken stock
1/8 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper
A few chopped parsley
A few basil leaves or 1 tsp dry basil

Cheese toasts

8 good loaf  slices
8 cheddar and 8 Emmental  cheese
Butter to apply

Method

• Preheat the oven 220'C. In a roasting pan, add sliced tomatoes facing up, garlic, leeks,onions and herbs. Season it well. Pour olive oil and roast for 15 minutes. It will slightly char.

before roasting

after roasting

• Remove the tray and throw all the ingredients in blender and blend till smooth. As you blend pour the stock in. 

• Pour the blended tomato mix in a pot. Add more stock if needed. (it depends on you what consistency you'd prefer. I like it thick so that when I dunk the cheese toasts , it hold to it). Cook further 5 to 8 minutes and serve.

For the cheese toasts, you can use your sandwich maker or the way I do it. Simply heat a thick base pan. Sandwich the cheese in bread slices. Apply the butter on the top side. Put it on the pan on medium heat so that the bread caramelised slowly while cheese melts inside. Flip the other side and apply butter. It'll turn golden crusty .

Serve it with soup or the cheese lovers can just gobble it up.;)

cheese toasts

my son dunking his toast in is soup