Roasted Vine Tomato and Gin Soup
I am using 2 great food producers from my local county Wexford. Wexfordtomatoes.ie and jackfordspirits.com both part of the Wexford food family. it is great to have so many local producers with great produce!
Ingredients
- 1 kg tomatoes
- 3-5 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp brown sugar - optional
- 40 ml Jackford Gin
- 250 ml vegetable stock
- 50 ml Irish cream
- 1 tbsp. crème fraiche
- Cheese / Bread Sticks to serve
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400F/Gas Mark 6. Place the tomatoes on the vine and garlic in a large roasting pan, drizzle with 2 tablespoon olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and roast in the oven for 25-35 minutes or until the tomatoes are coloured and the skin breaks. Remove from the oven and leave to cool slightly.
- Squeeze the roasted garlic from its skin and remove the vine from the tomatoes.
- Place the garlic flesh and roasted tomatoes into a large pan, add the gin, stock, sugar. Blend with a handheld blender until smooth, then add enough of cream to enrich the flavours. Check the seasoning and serve immediately with a dollop of crème fraîche in each serving plates.