I love shopping in a proper market, seeing all the fresh veg and snapping up bargains. It was when I saw peppers and tomatos on offer for £1 for a big bowl of each that I remembered a reading a recipe for this soup :-
- 3 Red peppers
- 1 1/2lb tomatos
- 1 chorizo cut into lardons (I buy a pack of two from Sainsbury but it depends how you buy it and how much you like it but it gives the soup a lovely smokey taste)
- 1 tin chickpeas (drained)
- 1 pint water
Put the peppers (deseeded or not, whatever takes your fancy) and tomatos in the oven and cook for about 20 minutes until soft. Put these in a blender along with the water and whiz up until you have a nice smooth soup. Fry (I don’t use any oil as loads comes out of the chorizo) the lardons of chorizo for a couple of minutes and then add the chickpeas to the pan so they absorb all the oil and gently heat through for another couple of minutes until the peas soften slightly. Put the blended soup, chorizo and chickpeas in a saucepan and heat through gently so all the flavours infuse.
Serve with hot pitta bread or chunks of fresh bread.
I have now made myself hungry and so am off to make some of the above for myself.
ADF
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Ok: enough! Water’s coming to my mouth…
Sounds great – and especially easy to make. That is, after all, one of the turn-offs in quite a lot of cooking books: too many ingredients and way too much time needed to cook them. This recipe, on the other hand, seems easy enough for even a complete kitchen nitwit as myself to make. Thanks! The sweet potato soup, btw, was excellent!
Comment by Serge November 19, 2006 @ 5:19 pm