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Spicy tomato soup

Ingredients

for the soup:

  • 3 big ripe tomatoes
  • 1 medium-sized red onion
  • 1 red chili
  • 3 springs of fresh thyme
  • 15 ml olive oil
  • Maldon salt
  • freshly cracked black pepper
  • juice of half lemon

for serving:

  • 4 thin slices of sourdough
  • 2 cherry tomatoes
  • some fresh lime zest
  • freshly cracked black pepper
  • fresh thyme

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven at 150 C
  • Roughly chop the tomatoes and the onion, then cut the red chilli in half and remove the seeds. Put them all in a roasting pan, add the thyme springs, sprinkle with salt and pepper then drizzle the olive oil on top.
  • Cover the pan with foil an place it in the oven for 45 minutes, until the tomatoes and the onion become soft.
  • After 45 minutes, take the pan out of the oven, remove the foil and leave it to cool for a few minutes.
  • Transfer everything, including all the juices from the pan (remove the thyme springs) into a food processor and whizz it until it becomes creamy.
  • At the end, add the lemon juice.
  • To serve, pour the soup into two bowls, add the cubed cherry tomatoes, the sourdough, sprinkle some lime zest, freshly cracked black pepper and some fresh thyme.