Happy World Book
Day everyone! Did you go to work or school dressed as a literary
character? I didn't really, but I was spending it in spirit. However
today's recipe might turn out to be suitable to the theme and what
could be more fun than good old alphabet soup? I made this tomato
based soup with alphabet pasta, and I'm sure that you would get most
kids eating this with passion and maybe even forming words on their
plates.
Ingredients
800 g tomatoes
2 shallots
3 garlic cloves
3 tbsp olive oil
Bunch of fresh
basil
100 g tomato puree
Salt and pepper to
taste
1 cup alphabet
pasta
Method
Chop the shallots
and garlic finely. Remove the skins of the tomatoes by dipping them
for a few seconds into boiling water and then to cold water. Then the
skins should almost remove themselves.
Heat olive oil in
a saucepan and cook the shallots and garlic soft. Add the skinned
tomatoes to the pan.
Let simmer under
the lid at medium to low heat for at least 30 minutes by occasionally
stirring and crushing the tomatoes with a ladle as they become
softer.
Season the soup
with fresh basil, tomato purée, salt and pepper and purée the soup
with a hand mixer.
In a separate pot,
boil the alphabet pasta until al dente and add the cute letters to
the tomato soup.
Serve warm and
enjoy! I served fluffy homemade garlic and basil rolls on the side,
for which I will be soon sharing a recipe (not my own unfortunately).
Have fun!
Your VegHog
Already a young woman, yet alphabet soup remains as one of my favorites.<3
ReplyDeleteI'll be saving this recipe to try very soon. :)
Vegetarian Courtesy
Oh good to hear! I had forgotten all about any kind of alphabet soup until I saw the cute alphabetti pasta in the store. I just had to buy some.
DeleteLooks delicious - sorry that World Book Day passed me by but at least I recognise the hattifatners (not sure that my spelling is spot on though) after reading a moomin book recently
ReplyDeleteThank you! I think they are hattifatteners in English, but we just call them hattivatit in Finnish. I went to a great exhibition in Helsinki last year showing Tove Jansson's Moomin and other art. It was really good, and of course I do own some Moomin mugs and bowls. :)
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