Thursday 13 February 2014

Comfortable Bell Pepper Soup

Wikipedia describes comfort food like this: "traditionally eaten food which often provides a nostalgic or sentimental feeling to the person eating it, or simply provides the consumer a familiar meal, soft in consistency, and rich in calories, nutrients, or both"

For me the ultimate comfort food is soup.
I don't really like raw bell peppers, however the cooking somehow changes and softens the flavour and makes this soup a total winner.

To serve four you'll need:

8 big bell peppers (4 red, 4 orange or yellow)
1 onion, chopped
600ml vegetable stock (2 tablespoons when instant)
200ml water
150ml olive oil
100g cream 
salt n pepper

Pre heat your oven to 200 C
You want to put your peppers into it on an oiled plate and wait until the skin has popped open.

When they have cooled down a little peel off the skin and cut into pieces.

You also need to chop your onion

Put your peppers, the onion, the oil, the water and the vegetable stock into your blender and blend until smooth. You can always use a hand blender and do it directly in the pot if you have one.

Pour the soup into a pot and heat gently.
Put in your cream grab your salt n pepper and spice your soup the way you like it.




When you're done put your soup into a big bowl, sit yourself in front of the TV, tuck yourself into a soft blanket and watch your favourite season of Entourage or recently Brooklyn Nine-Nine [anyone else obsessed with Andy Samberg?].
That is an order.



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