Gordon Ramsay's Roasted Creamy Tomato Soup with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Welsh Rarebit Toast

5m
Serves 3
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Directions

  1. 1Select ripe vine tomatoes, core them and quarter them.
  2. 2Finely slice red onion and garlic.
  3. 3Season the tomatoes with salt, pepper, sugar, cayenne, and balsamic vinegar.
  4. 4Roast the tomatoes, onion, and garlic for 20-25 minutes at 180°C.
  5. 5Make sun-dried tomato pesto by toasting pine nuts and then combining them with sun-dried tomatoes, Parmesan, and olive oil in a pestle and mortar.
  6. 6Add vegetable or chicken stock to the roasted tomatoes and simmer.
  7. 7Blend or mash the tomato mixture to your desired consistency.
  8. 8Stir in cream.
  9. 9Make a roux with butter and flour.
  10. 10Add stout, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce to the roux.
  11. 11Stir in Montgomery cheddar.
  12. 12Toast bread slices and spread the cheese mixture over them.
  13. 13Grill cheese on toast until blistered and bubbly.
  14. 14Serve the creamy tomato soup with the sun-dried tomato pesto and the cheese on toast.

Ingredients

  • 12 ripe vine tomatoes
  • 1 red onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 1 pinch sugar
  • 1 pinch cayenne
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 4 sun-dried tomatoes
  • 1 handful pine nuts
  • 50 g Parmesan cheese
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 200 ml vegetable or chicken stock
  • 100 ml cream
  • 50 g butter
  • 50 g flour
  • 100 ml stout
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
  • 200 g Montgomery cheddar
  • 3 slices country loaf

Equipment

ovenknifepestle and mortargraterfrying panimmersion blender