TOMATO SOUP RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

I love it when delicious cooking is dead easy. Take this tomato soup recipe for example.

* 1 tablespoon olive oil

* 1 cup chopped onion

* 2 cloves garlic, chopped

* 2 chopped carrots

* 1/4 cup chopped celery

* 10 chopped fresh tomatoes (or 2 cans)

* 3 1/2 cups vege or meat* broth * 1 teaspoon salt

* 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

* 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

* 1 chilli (or 4 drops hot pepper sauce)

Tip: Keep your chicken bones in the freezer, boil up a pile of them for an hour. Makes a delicious nutritious stock.

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat the oil in a large heavy pot over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic until onion is tender.

2. Add carrot and celery; cook 7 to 9 minutes until tender, stirring frequently. Stir in tomatoes, broth, Worcestershire sauce, salt, thyme, pepper and chilli or hot pepper sauce. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 20 minutes, stirring frequently.

What could be easier!??? Half an hour, start to finish. If your cholesterol is in good shape (less than 5.1), then add a little double thick cream. Yum!

Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and sweet basil.

Why is it particularly healthy? Well, the tomatoes as you know are excellent for preventing prostate (and presumably other) cancer. Celery is good for arthritis and an excellent source of fibre for the colon. Onions and garlic lower cholesterol, parsley ... convinced? Delicious, healthy, quick.

Tip: If you have a sensitive tum, then only eat this for lunch. If you like it with bread, at dinner tomato soup may give you heartburn.

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