Spicy Tomato and sweet pepper soup

I like soup, as do a lot of people, but there are things about soups which wind me up. Tomato soup with seeds and skin still in it. Leek and potato soup that tastes of water. oxtail soup that has the flavour of old slippers, I tried eating one once as a joke, so I do know.

Anyway, today I made myself some tomato soup, some spicy tomato and sweet pepper soup to be more exact. I make soups a lot, so it's something I like to play with.


Spicy tomato and sweet pepper soup


Ingredients
4 Kg plum tomatoes
2 celery stalks
2 Large salad onions
4 sweet peppers
1 red chilli pepper
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp rapeseed oil
salt and pepper to taste
Tyme
3 Tbsp tomato paste
1/2 L vegetable or chicken stock
250 ml of Creme Fresh


Directions

1. Pd de-seed all the tomatoes (score and place tomatoes in bowl of boiling water until skin starts to loosen)
2. Remove skin from peppers(blacken over flame and place in plastic bag, remove skin after a few minutes)
3. Put oil and butter in large pan and heat
4. Finely dice the celery, onion and garlic and add to hot pan
5. Add thyme and stir until the celery, onions and garlic are cooked.
6. Add chopped tomatoes, tomato paste, finely chopped chill( remove seeds if you don't want it too spicy) and chopped sweet pepper add stock, bring to simmer, for 30 minutes. tasting and adjusting with salt and pepper as along the way.
7. If too spicy, add 1 tablespoon of sugar.
8. Take off heat,
9. Blend and add creme fresh.
10. Serve with freshly baked soda bread

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