Tomato Kokosnoot Soup

September 3, 2012

Berlin proved to endure rich dinners in addition to varied breakfasts that I paid an inordinate amount of postage stamp to guide keep Kopps chef Björn Moschinski's cookbook delivered to me. H5N1 cookbook that is written alone inwards German.

Thankfully Vegan Kochen Für Alle (Vegan Cooking For All) has lots of glossy coloring photos to steer me towards the recipes I want. Google translate guided us good through our vacation in addition to does a overnice initiatory of all draft of a recipe (although I give thank yous Sarah in addition to Sandra for tweeting extra expertise my way). I'm non certain I'll bother transcribing in addition to translating Moschinski's 8-page foreword, though.

I started from the beginning; this love apple tree soup is the initiatory of all recipe inwards the book! I know that tomatoes in addition to basil are summertime foods but we've had a weird waft of boundary this calendar week in addition to I actually couldn't wait. My soup was non quite every bit ruddy in addition to shine every bit the ane photographed inwards the book. Nevertheless, I actually similar the subtle sweetness creaminess that the kokosnoot milk provides; I too similar that the High German give-and-take for stick blender is Stabmixer!

Tomato kokosnoot soup
(adapted slightly from Vegan Kochen Für Alle
past times Björn Moschinski)

1kg tomatoes
ii onions
five tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sugar
30g love apple tree paste
500 mL vegetable stock
400 mL tin kokosnoot milk
1 bunch basil
salt
pepper

Bring a large pot of H2O to the boil, in addition to fill upward a large bowl amongst H2O ice water. Remove the amount from the transcend of each tomato, leaving the love apple tree whole, in addition to cutting a pocket-size cross inwards the base. Drop the tomatoes into the boiling H2O for close xxx seconds, thence plunge them into the H2O ice water.

Dice the onions finely. Drain all the H2O from the large pot in addition to oestrus the crude inwards it; add together the onions in addition to saute them over medium oestrus until they commence to brown, close 10 minutes. While the onions are cooking, peel the skins from the tomatoes in addition to die the tomatoes finely. Add the love apple tree glue to the onions in addition to youngster the mixture for 2-3 minutes. Add the diced tomatoes in addition to cook, stirring, for a farther five minutes. Pour inwards the stock in addition to kokosnoot milk; simmer it all for fifteen minutes on depression heat.

While the soup is simmering, launder in addition to some chop the basil. When the soup is finished simmering guide keep it off the heat, add together the basil in addition to blend the soup (preferably amongst a stick blender) until smooth. Season to gustation in addition to serve.