Roasted Tomato Confit Soup
Roasted Tomato Confit Soup + Avocado Bacon Grilled Cheese is a popular winter meal, but summer tomatoes are best. Enjoy this delicious recipe all year round.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 5 lb Assorted fresh tomatoes cut into quarters
- 30 Garlic cloves
- 20 Sprigs of fresh thyme
- .25 cups Olive oil
- 32 oz Vegetable stock
- 1 Small diced sweet onion
- 1 tbsp Salted butter
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
- Basil oil garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 275°
- Place the tomatoes skin side down on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper and evenly spread on the garlic cloves. Next, drizzle the olive oil onto the tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and place on the thyme leaves. Bake in the oven for at least 2 hours but no more than 4 hours.
- In a Le Creuset Pot on medium heat, add in the butter and caramelize the sweet onion. Add in the sugar to help brown.
- Once the tomatoes are done cooking, add them in only to the roasted sweet onion pot along with 8 cooked cloves of garlic from the pan.
- Next, add in the stock, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, salt and pepper and simmer on low for at least 1 hour. Puree the soup in a blender or with an immersion hand blender.