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\"Dan's<\/a>

Tomato Soup With A Kick!<\/p><\/div>\n

With the pressure firmly on, it was my turn to step up to the (hot)plate and deliver a bowl of super soup.\u00a0 Although I fancy myself as a bit of a budding Jamie Oliver in the kitchen, I have only ever made two big pans of soup before; one was the test run for this dish, and the other was the dish itself.<\/p>\n

The competition this week has been fierce; John Torode and Gregg Wallace (by the way, what exactly is an ‘ingredient expert’? Isn’t he just a freeloading greengrocer?) would have been salivating like Bloodhounds at the earlier offerings. I couldn’t let the week simply dissipate with an uninspired offering, and the bar had been set extremely high. A touch of the jitters had set in at this point.<\/p>\n

So to the soup. I decided to whip up a Spicy Tomato concoction – but with a twist. Now, this isn’t the kind of twist that was popularized in the Christmas special of The Royal Family where Dave and Denise lumped a knob of Stork into mashed carrots, it was a touch more adventurous than that.<\/p>\n

First I got the carrots, onions, red peppers and garlic and chopped them finely. I lashed them into a pan of hot olive oil<\/a>, where they were left to soften.\u00a0 Next I had to don a pair of gloves used only by employees at Sellafield, as the chills were brought out and finely diced and added to the pot. Seasoning was added at this stage, a pinch of salt & pepper and some organic spices<\/a> (basil and thyme).<\/p>\n

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Whilst the pot continued to simmer, I knocked up 2 pints of vegetable stock<\/a>, which was then introduced to the pan, along with two tins of chopped tomatoes<\/a>. The whole pot was then left to simmer for about 20 minutes. About 5 minutes before removing it from the heat, I introduced a large handful of fresh basil to infuse with the soup.<\/p>\n

\"40p<\/a>

40p Per Serving, Including Ciabatta Bread<\/p><\/div>\n

When I felt it was ready, I removed the soup and blended it all together with a hand mixer. I also introduced some boiled potatoes to the mix, to thicken the soup and give it some body.\u00a0 I left it to cool then for a day, during which time it matured in taste to become sweeter and stronger.<\/p>\n

A while back I was watching UKFood+1 (God knows why) but I saw a chef say that when serving soup, one should garnish the dish with a little bit of what is in it so the person eating (is it eat or drink with soup, I don’t know) it knows what’s in it. Bearing this sagely knowledge in mind, I put a thin slice of chilli, a leaf of basil and drizzled a teeny weeny bit of cream over the surface of the soup. A note to vegans, this isn’t actually in the main soup, it’s for decoration only so you can leave it out.<\/p>\n

All in all, Soup Week has been terrific, and we have sampled some sensationally sublime soups. It doesn’t matter if I win or not, I have really enjoyed it and it’ll get me cooking soup more often. This soup, including Ciabatta bread, works out at about 40p per serving – which is damned near tremendous given the fact that even a sorry egg and cress sarnie in our local supermarket is about a pound.<\/p>\n

Which one would you rather have on a miserable day in the winter?<\/p>\n

See the pictures from today’s Soup Challenge and the rest of the week’s over on our Flickr Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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