Min’s potato & tomato soup

Did You Know?

Soup dates to 20,000 BC where ancient clay vessels were excavated in the northeast Jiangxi province of China. The word soup comes from the Italian word zuppa or Latin word suppa-a piece of bread eaten in a broth. Our ever talented, colleague & friend Min keeps warm with an inviting bowl of potato & tomato soup. Makes 4-5 servings.

Ingredients:

• Yukon potatoes: 2 or 3, peeled and diced

• Any naturally ripen tomatoes: 5 diced, or canned tomatoes about 600 g, or a combination of both

• Yellow onion: 1 small, sliced or diced

• Garlic: 2-3 cloves, minced

• Villa Graziella Organic Extra-virgin olive oil: 3 tbsps + extra for drizzling

• Salt: 1 tsp

• Black pepper: 1 pinch

• Basil: few leaves, or dried basil: 1 tsp

• Parmesan cheese: as needed

Instructions:

1. Cover the potato with water in a saucepan, bring to boil and then lower and cook until tender but not overly cooked.

2. Heat the extra-virgin olive oil in a large soup pot. Add the onion and cook until translucent and slightly brown on the edge.

3. Add the garlic and sauté a couple more minutes.

4. Add the tomatoes in and cook until they become soft and look like tomato sauce.

5. Add the cooked potatoes in as well as some of the water that you use to cook the potatoes. (Don’t drain the rest of the water yet, you can add more later if the soup is too thick.)

6. Blend the potatoes, tomatoes, and onion together in the pot with a hand blender until it become smooth. (If you don’t have a hand bender, before adding the water and wait till the ingredients cool down a little bit, you can blend them in a regular blender.)

7. Bring the soup back to boil and then simmer. If the soup is too thick, add more water. If it’s too watery, simmer it for a few more minutes.

8. Add salt, pepper and basil to taste.

9. Pour the soup into a bowl, then drizzle extra-virgin olive oil on it and add a few thin sliced parmesan cheese if you like.

10. Enjoy the soup with bread or on its own.

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