Mmmm Soup!

Leather boots, chunky knit jerseys, slow cooked meat stews, warm baked puddings and of course soup are some of the things I love about the colder months.

Winter has barley started and already I've gotten out all my soup recipes and made 2.

Last winter a friend e-mailed me a ton of soup recipes which I never got round to making due to my obsession with Woolworths slow roast tomato and marscapone soup. This winter i see they haven't brought it out which is a blessing because I made my own tomato soup.

This variation of tomato soup is not only extremely delicious and super easy but also almost fat free!

What you need:

A glug of olive oil
onion roughly chopped
1kg tomatoes roughly chopped
1 liter good veg stock - its always good to make your own and freeze them
2 Tbsp sugar
125g ready made sun dried tomato pesto - Robertsons has brought out a fantastic pesto range or Woolies always has
a few basil leaves finely chopped
salt and pepper to taste

• Fry onions in olive oil until almost translucent
• Add the tomatoes and stock and bring to the boil. Simmer for 40min.
• Remove from heat, use a stick blender or food processor to blend the mixture.
• Add the sugar and pesto and bring to the boil again, simmer for about 10 min.
• Add the basil leaves, salt and pepper,

If you want to serve this as a more substantial meal serve the soup with a grilled cheese sandwich.

Its that simple to have a delicious hot soup on those cold lazy winter days.

Whats your favorite winter warmer recipe?