Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup With Spinach Gnocchi Recipes

Steps:

• Bring large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the gnocchi according to the package instructions. Drain in a colander in the sink.
• In a saucepan, heat oil over medium heat until hot, add garlic and cook, stirring, until golden. Add peppers, salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Transfer to a processor or blender and puree. Return sauce to pan, add cream and bring to a simmer, stirring. Add basil, salt, pepper and few drops lemon juice, to taste.
• In a large bowl, toss the gnocchi and sauce together. Divide among bowls, strew over some torn basil leaves, and grate some Parmesan over the top. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/ 160C fan/ gas 4. Cook a 500g pack gnocchi following pack instructions, then drain and tip into a casserole dish. Pour over ½ batch roasted red pepper sauce (see 'Goes well with...' below), then tear 125g ball mozzarella over the top and sprinkle over 2 handfuls breadcrumbs. Bake for 20 mins until golden and heated through.

Steps:

• Roast the peppers as directed, allow to cool in a covered bowl, then peel, seed and dice. Set aside.
• Heat the oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot and add the onion. Cook, stirring often, until onion is translucent, about 3 minutes, and add the carrot and celery and a generous pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are tender and fragrant, about 5 more minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds to a minute. Add the tomatoes with their liquid, the tomato paste, basil sprigs, cinnamon, sugar if using, and salt to taste. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes have cooked down slightly and smell fragrant, about 10 minutes.
• Add the diced roasted peppers, the stock or water, rice, and salt to taste. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes, stirring from time to time. Season with freshly ground pepper, taste and adjust salt. Remove the basil sprigs.
• Using a hand blender, purée the soup, or use a blender and purée in batches, being careful to pull a dish towel down over the top and not to cover tightly with the blender lid, then return to the pot and heat through. Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve topped with croutons, Parmesan cheese, and/or slivered basil.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the tomatoes, onion and peppers in a roasting tin, toss with the oil and season. Nestle in the garlic and thyme sprigs, then roast for 25-30 mins until all the veg has softened and slightly caramelised. Squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins into the tin, strip the leaves off the thyme and discard the stalks and garlic skins. Mix the vinegar into the tin then blend everything in a bullet blender or using a stick blender, adding enough water to loosen to your preferred consistency (we used around 150ml).
• Reheat the soup if necessary, taste for seasoning, then spoon into two bowls and top each with a spoonful of ricotta, a few basil leaves, the seeds and a drizzle of oil. Serve with bread for dunking.

Steps:

• Roast peppers: rub oil on peppers and put them under the broiler until blackened, turn to get all sides. Put into paper bag and seal. Let rest for 15 minutes, then peel will come right off and core and seeds will fall out. Chop peppers. Reserve one chopped pepper; set aside.
• Heat olive oil over moderate heat. Add onion and garlic and cook until soft but not brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in tomato, bell peppers (except reserved), thyme, paprika, and sugar. Cook over medium-low heat until all the tomato juices have evaporated, about 25 minutes.
• Stir in chicken stock, salt and pepper, cayenne pepper, and hot sauce (if using). Bring to boiling, lower heat, and simmer, partially covered, for 25 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Strain soup, reserving broth. Place solids in food processor or blender, and process until fairly smooth. Add puree back into broth.
• Melt butter and stir in the flour, cook for 1 minute. Stirring slowly, add the broth/vegetable mixture. Add reserved chopped pepper and bring to boiling. Lower heat and simmer 10 minutes.
• Ladle into bowls and add 1 tablespoon of sour cream to each bowl. For a lighter soup, this is also delicious without the sour cream.

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottom pot, combine the Olive Oil, onion and garlic.
• Saute over medium heat until onions are soft but not brown.
• Cut the roasted red peppers into large chunks and add to the pot.
• Stir in the sun dried tomatoes, San Marzano Tomatoes, chicken broth, salt, white pepper and sugar.
• Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and simmer about 15 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Use a stick blender to blend the soup into a puree. If you don't have a stick blender, you can use a regular blender: Cool the soup slightly. Add small amounts of the soup at a time to the blender but do not fill the blender more than halfway. Hot soup produces steam when blended and the pressure can blow the top off your blender if you are not careful. Once that batch is blended, place the pureed soup in another pot and repeat until all soup is blended smooth.
• Stir in the basil, spinach and heavy cream. Set aside.
• To make the gnocchi: Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
• In a food processor, combine the mashed potatoes, spinach and roasted garlic.
• Pulse several times until well combined.
• Remove from processor and place in a medium bowl.
• Add the eggs, flour and salt.
• Mix just until the dough comes together.
• Turn dough onto heavily floured surface.
• Knead about 20 times. The dough will be sticky so make sure you use plenty of flour on your work surface.
• Divide dough into 6 portions.
• Working with one portion at a time, roll into a rope about the thickness of your index finger.
• Cut into 1 inch segments.
• Place on a floured cookie sheet. Set aside.
• Repeat until all 6 portions have been rolled and cut into segments.
• Add about 20 pieces of gnocchi at a time to the boiling water.
• Cook 2 minutes.
• Remove from the water with a slotted spoon and place in the soup.
• Repeat until all gnocchi has been cooked and is in the soup.
• Stir 1 cup of the gnocchi water into the soup.

Steps:

• Rehydrate the dried tomatoes by soaking them in warm water for hour. Sweat the onion in the olive oil in a 2quart saucepan over medium heat, uncovered, for 7 to I0 minutes, stirring occasionally. Do not let the onion color. Add the stock, rehydrated tomatoes, roasted peppers, fresh tomatoes, salt, and pepper and let it all simmer together for 10 minutes. Pour the soup into a blender and process at high speed for 4 minutes, until very smooth. Then pass it through a strainer to remove the vegetable skills. Adjust the seasoning and serve with fresh basil leaves as a garnish.

Steps:

• First, trim 4 peppers, discard the seeds, and cut them into flat pieces.
• Broil the pepper, skin side up, until the skin blisters.
• Now, cool the pieces in a plastic bag.
• Remove the skin and chop.
• (You can use 4-6 roasted red peppers from a jar to save yourself a lot of trouble for the same result.) Sauté 1/2 cup diced sweet onion in a little olive oil.
• Add a can of diced tomatoes with the juice, the peppers, and 4 cups of broth.
• Cook for 5 minutes.
• Whiz half the mixture in a blender, then return it to the original pan.
• Or use a stick blender and whirl the whole pot around to your desired consistency.
• I like smooth.
• Season with a dash of salt and pepper, and a little balsamic vinegar.

Steps:

• Start by melting the olive oil and cooking the finely chopped onion over a low heat with the basil. Important that it doesn't take any colour. After a couple of minutes I usually add a little water then turn down the heat, cover with a lid and leave to 'sweat' for 5 minutes.
• When the onion is translucent add the tinned tomatoes. Please don't skimp when you buy your tinned tomatoes - you get what you pay for - the cherry tomatoes have an even more intense flavour. 3 large tins is exactly the right amount.
• At the same time add the red peppers. Drain them first. Simmer, covered for about 10 minutes. You can, if you wish, use fresh peppers but you will need to burn the skins and de-seed (you would need 4 large fresh red peppers - no other colour works). The ready prepared variety are much easier and there is no loss of flavour. I buy mine in a jar - they have been charred and the skin removed and are with brine/vinegar.
• Allow the soup to cool a little. Add the sweet chilli sauce - I usually add a good 'glug' - if I had to give a quantity I would say around 4 tbs - but to your taste. Dont miss it out though as it doesn't taste the same without it.
• Liquidise the soup, adding the feta cheese which you should cut into small cubes.
• Reheat to serve but don't let it boil. The flavour is so intense it is perfect as it is but, for a dinner party, you could crumble some extra feta on the top and add a bit of basil.
• A crowd pleaser and always sure to impress.

Steps:

• Broil the red peppers, turning them so they blacken on all sides. Once they're black, put them in a bowl, cover tightly with plastic wrap, and leave them until they're cool enough to handle (about 30 minutes). Peel, seed, and roughly chop them.
• Warm the olive oil in a thick-bottomed pot over medium heat. Add the peppers, chili paste, and a pinch of salt, stir to combine, and cook for 5 minutes.
• Finely chop the garlic, add to the pot, and cook for 2 minutes.
• Drain the tomatoes, and add to the pot with the red wine vinegar and a pinch of salt. Cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the chicken stock. Puree with a stick blender until smooth, and simmer for 15 more minutes.

Steps:

• Place tomatoes and peppers, cut side down, in a 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 425° for 20 minutes. Turn tomatoes and peppers; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until skins are blistered and blackened., Immediately place peppers and tomatoes in a large bowl; cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Peel off and discard skins; coarsely chop tomatoes and peppers., In a large saucepan, saute onions in oil until tender. Add the garlic, cumin and coriander; saute 1 minute longer. Add the broth, tomatoes and peppers. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes., Stir in the bread, vinegar, salt and pepper; heat through. Sprinkle servings with cheese.

Steps:

• In a soup pot over medium heat, warm oil.
• Add onion and saute'.
• Add garlic and cook 30 seconds longer.
• Add potato, salt, thyme, red pepper flakes, and stock/broth.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer 15 minutes.
• Add roasted red peppers and cook 5-10 minutes until flavors are blended.
• Puree w/ blender stick or in batches (food processor or blender).
• Return to pot and add buttermilk (milk or half & half). Gently heat to serving temperature.
• Ladle into bowls, top with sour cream & chives.