Sunday 24 February 2008

my favourite soup

Pip from meet me at mikes is having a giveaway so I thought i'd give it a go & enter. To enter you have to post the recipe for your favourite soup. Check out some of the crazy soups she's found. They sound... interesting
Because today was a tad wintry and the boy and I needed some warming up I cooked this soup for dinner. It is so good & easy to make, heres the recipe.

Moroccan Tomato soup with couscous

olive oil
1 large red onion- finely diced
3 cloves garlic- finely diced
2 tbsp tomato paste
2 400gm tins of diced tomatoes
1 litre chicken or veggie stock
1/2 cup couscous
salt and pepper to taste
chopped coriander

-heat oil in saucepan, add onion & saute on medium heat for 10 minutes
-add garlic, paste, tomatoes & stock, bring to boil then simmer for 15 minutes
-add couscous & simmer for another 10 minutes
-season with salt & pepper
-serve into bowls and garnish with coriander

this recipe serves 4 but can easily be halved.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oooooohhhh yum! I'm going to make me some of this!

boobook said...

i'm off to the supermarket to make this for my lunch!!
Yummmmm O!

Laydebird said...

Soups are my fave...I look forward to making this one x