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Shadow8 on 21 July 2016
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Teeqoz said:

Tomato soup, 4-ish servings

You need

·         2 shallots

·         3 cloves of garlic

·         tomato puree

·         3 BIG tomatoes (think the size of a decent sized apple)

·         vegetable bouillon

·         8 decilitres of water (Use google to convert it to whatever unit you prefer)

·         immersion blender

 

What to do:

 

Cut the shallots and the garlic cloves in small pieces (it would appear that my food-related English is limited, so I don’t know the word, but in Norwegian it’s “finhakket”, or “finely cut” directly translated). Fry it in a pan using some olive oil or another neutral oil. Fry it enough that it gets glossy and blank, but not brown. Then turn down the temperature and add two tablespoons of tomato puree, and try and mix it together in the pan.

 

(Image for reference)

Now you need to boil up the 8 decilitres of water and mix in the appropriate amount of bouillon as stated on the package of whatever type of bouillon you bought.

 

In addition, you need to boil up enough water to soak your three tomatoes (this is not a part of those 8 decilitres for the actual soup). Then let the 3 tomatoes soak in that for 2 minutes while the water is hot. This will make the skin of the tomatoes come easily off and you can peal it off by hand. Alternatively, you can just leave it on, but make sure you wash the tomatoes properly. Then cut out the stalk in a sort of conic shape.

 

Cut each tomato in four, and add everything (including the onion/tomato puree mixture) into the 8 decilitres of water. Add two tablespoons of tomato puree, and let it boil for 15 minutes til the tomatoes get nice and soft, then use the immersion mixer to mix it so that you get a nice smooth soup.

 

Serve with some bread and optionally hard boil some eggs and cut them in half and add them when you eat.

 

The end result should look like this:

(See that texture in the soup? That’s how real soup looks like. Not the sort of soup you get when you buy those bags of powder that you just add water to. That’s not soup, just tomato-ish flavoured water)

 

If you have any questions about the recipe, let me know and I'll try and help you out to the best of my ability!

 

Sources for the images:

http://i1.wp.com/trinesmatblogg.no/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IMG_1117.jpg?w=800

http://i1.wp.com/trinesmatblogg.no/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IMG_1153.jpg?w=800

Thanks! That pic does look good and it seems easy enough to make I suppose. I'll be sure to ask if I have any issues!

hershel_layton said:
Shadow8 said:

Seems like cooking is the theme of the day, so I want to take this opportunity to ask you guys something.

I know nothing about cooking and having just passed my 1st year in a university, I've eaten fast food for the vast majority of that time. My body has taken a beating because of this and would like some healthy dishes even a novice like me could do. Any suggestions?

I'd say you should try out Middle Eastern and Asian foods. They have a great amount of vegetables and essential nutrients in them.  A great recommendation is a Middle Eastern salad named Tabooleh. There's many ways to create it. Here's a link: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/tabbouleh-recipe.html

 

That Rabooleh does look delicious and healthy, I'll check if I am able to do it :p Thank you for the link!

Ganoncrotch said:

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Damn, I could do this right now! I'll see if I like it, probably will, since I love beans. Thanks!