This vibrant Red Pepper and Sundried Tomato Soup makes a deliciously speedy lunch and is perfect for keeping you on track with your 5 a day.
How’s everyone’s healthier start to the new year going? I’m still eating far too much food, but at least the majority of it is better quality that the festive fare!
Soup is still high on my menu plan, I’m making a batch once or twice a week and having a bowl (or a mug) at least once a day. Big flavours, bold colours, soothing and easily digestible. Oh, and cheap as chips.
This week I’m indulging is this gorgeous Red Pepper and Sundried Tomato Soup. Well, I actually used my home grown and home dehydrated tomatoes, so not exactly ‘sundried’, but we rarely get enough heat or sun to dry the washing here in Cornwall, let alone a bunch of tomatoes :)
If you are buying your tomatoes to make this bowl of yumminess, you have a choice of semi dried tomatoes in oil, or the fully dried ones in a bag. Personally I would opt for the fully dried ones as they are much cheaper and ideal when added to a ‘wet’ dish like soup. Save those unctuous ones in oil to finish off a pizza or just eat straight from the jar ;)
Red Pepper and Sundried Tomato Soup
- 1 onion chopped
- dash oil
- 4 red peppers deseeded and chopped
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- 8 dried tomato halves diced
- 1/2 litre water
- Salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds toasted in a dry frying pan until tinged golden brown
- Sweat the onion down slowly in the oil.
- Add the peppers, garlic, tomatoes and water and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- Carefully pour into a blender and whizz the life out of it until you have a perfectly smooth vibrant soup.
- Pour back into the pan, season with the salt & pepper and top up with enough water to bring it to the consistency you like. Reheat and serve, sprinkled with the toasted almonds.
Kerry @ Kerry Cooks says
I’ve been looking for some foolproof soup recipes to try out (whenever I go freestyle it all goes wrong!) and this one looks delicious! I’ll definitely give it a go
Jane Sarchet says
Oh bless you Kerry, I have had one or two go horribly wrong in the past too! Adding turnip (or swede?) made one revolting and years ago I remember adding a whole carton cream and it being some weird fusion of savoury and pudding! GROSS! :)
Janie x
Glamorous Glutton says
This looks fab really warming and bang full of flavour with the dried tomatoes. I love your photos as usual Janie. I remember being told by a professional photographer that hands are very difficult to photograph. Your pic with all those tweedy textures makes me want to reach in and snatch that mug of soup. Nicely, of course ;) GG
Jane Sarchet says
Haha, THIEF!
Thanks GG, it did take (more than) a few shots to get one that I could use :D
Janie x
Sus @ roughmeasures.com says
This looks so good Janie! What lovely colours too. Great for these horrid rainy evenings!
Jane Sarchet says
Absolutely Sus, it’s like a little bowl of summer sun :)
Janie x
Lizzy (Good Things) says
Yep, I’m still eating too much as well. Sigh. Need to get back onto the 5:2 properly… it’s just so hard when you love good food. Your soup sounds rich in flavour, love it Janie. Whereabouts do you live, incidentally? Are you near Yorkshire anywhere?
Jane Sarchet says
Nope, I’m the other end of the UK in Cornwall (far South West). It’s beautiful :)
Janie x
Julie's Family Kitchen says
Seriously yummy looking soup. I’ve made a red pepper and chorizo soup by following a recipe although delicious it required roasting the peppers then peeling the blistered skin (a painful job I remember!) Your recipe seems so much easier, which I like plus I love how you’ve added toasted almonds on top. x
Jane Sarchet says
Quicker, easier and more fibre too Julie :)
Janie x
Bintu @ Recipes From A Pantry says
I am working on some sundried tomato recipes and I was wondering what to do with the half jar that was left over. Now I know.
Jane Sarchet says
I’d be eating them straight from the jar Bintu :)
Janie x
Isabella says
I love a good soup, this looks so vibrant and delicious, perfect for a chilly day! Homemade soup always puts tinned supermarket soups to shame! Delicious!
Jane Sarchet says
I absolutely agree Isabella, in fact I don’t remember the last tin or packer of soup I bought. They are always such a disappointment.
Janie x
Lucy @ BakingQueen74 says
mmm, this sounds so good, more soups being made here right now with the colder weather, must try this one!
Jane Sarchet says
Thanks Lucy, and I hope you love it as much as we do!
Janie x
Heidi Roberts says
I love soup and sundried tomatoes, makes sense putting them together!
Jane Sarchet says
Exactly my train of thought Heidi! :D
Janie x
Choclette says
This made me laugh. So try, I haven’t been able to properly dry my washing for months! Love the colour and sound of this soup – so cheery at this rather dreary time of year. After our rather abstemious December, I seem to be making up for it in January – oops!
Jane Sarchet says
Haha, you bring it over here Choccy, it’ll dry in an hour over my wood burner :) And you & the Mr do have some catching up to do, so enjoy ;)
Janie x
Choclette says
Ooh toasted trunks and smoked sheets – sounds good.
Trouble is, we don’t need much excuse and I think we’ve probably made up for it by now – sigh!
Doug says
Thanks for the recipe – why do you recommend dried tomatoes over fresh ones?
Jane Sarchet says
Hey Doug, thanks for stopping by! I prefer the deeper, more ‘tomatoey’ flavour of the dried tomatoes in wet dishes like soup. You could always try oven roasting some fresh tomatoes to bring out that same rich depth of flavour.
Janie x