Roasted Olive Tomato Soup
Roasted tomatoes, garlic and olives come together to create a delicious, warming soup full of umami flavors and creaminess.
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Columnist Seiran Sinjari is back with a recipe that’s perfect for colder days: Vegan Roasted Olive Tomato Soup. Her recipe column All About the Veg! is all about highlighting the versatility of fruits and vegetables by shining a spotlight on a different one in each of her articles. Today is all about tomatoes. 

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Roasted Olive Tomato Soup

Itโ€™s officially soup season and there are so many delicious ways to enjoy it! Soup is a great way to warm you up from within and most of them are pretty easy and fuss-free. Itโ€™s also easy to get creative with new flavors and ingredients when making soup.

Whatโ€™s more comforting on a winter day than a good old tomato soup served with grilled cheese? I canโ€™t think of anything better. We do have beautiful winter tomatoes, but I feel like they need something extra to really come through. Enter: olives! Roasting olives with the tomatoes will really bring out that umami flavor and just a perfectly balanced hint of the briny, salty olives.

Iโ€™m a big fan of using olives in cooked foods. You can let them simmer in slow-cooked stews, grill them, fry them or roast them like weโ€™re doing today. Theyโ€™re perfect for the winter season when we want to bring out more flavors of the produce weโ€™re working with.

What You’ll Need

  • Tomatoes
  • Pitted big green olives
  • Fresh thyme
  • Garlic
  • Shallots
  • Olive oil
  • Tomato paste
  • Basil leaves
  • Vegan (heavy) cream
  • Vegetable stock
  • Dried oregano
  • Dried basil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Chili flakes
  • Sugar (if you have tomatoes with high acid)

Serve with:

  • Vegan grilled cheese or other bread

How to Make This Recipe

Step one: preheat the oven

Preheat the oven to 200 C / 390 F.

Step two: Prepare the tomatoes and garlic

If you are using large tomatoes, cut them in half. Cut off the top part of the garlic head.

Step three: add the ingredients to a baking tray

Place the tomatoes, garlic, shallots, thyme and olives on a baking tray. Drizzle over 2 tablespoons of olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Make sure the thyme is tucked under the tomatoes or olives so it doesn’t burn. Place the garlic with the cut side down.

Step four: roast the vegetables

Roast in the oven for 40-50 minutes until everything is tender.

Step five: bring it all together

Heat 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil in a large pot and stir-fry the tomato for 1 minute. Add all roasted vegetables (squeeze the garlic cloves out of the skin and remove tomato sprigs), basil leaves, vegan cream, vegetable stock, oregano, basil pepper and chili flakes. Blend the soup until smooth and let simmer for a couple of minutes. Adjust with more stock if you want it thinner. Finally season with salt after tasting it, as both the olives and the broth are savory.

Roasted Olive Tomato Soup

Roasted Olive Tomato Soup

5 from 1 vote
Roasted tomatoes, garlic and olives come together to create a delicious, warming soup full of umami flavors and creaminess.
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Author: Seiran Sinjari
Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 kg / 2 lbs of tomatoes
  • 100 g / 2/3 cup pitted big green olives
  • a couple sprigs of fresh thyme
  • 1 whole head of garlic
  • 3 shallots peeled
  • 2 1/2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 10 basil leaves more to garnish with
  • 200 ml / 3/4 cup + 1 tbsp vegan cream / heavy cream
  • 200- 300 ml / 3/4 - 1 1/4 cup vegetable stock
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp dried basil
  • salt pepper & chili flakes to taste
  • + pinch of sugar if you have tomatoes with high acid

Serve with:

  • Vegan grilled cheese or other bread

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200 C / 390 F.
  • If you are using large tomatoes, cut them in half. Cut off the top part of the garlic head.
  • Place the tomatoes, garlic, shallots, thyme and olives on a baking tray. Drizzle over 2 tablespoons of olive oil, season with salt and pepper.
  • Make sure the thyme is tucked under the tomatoes or olives so it doesn't burn. Place the garlic with the cut side down.
  • Roast in the oven for 40-50 minutes until everything is tender.
  • Heat 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil in a large pot and stir-fry the tomato for 1 minute. Add all roasted vegetables (squeeze the garlic cloves out of the skin and remove tomato sprigs), basil leaves, vegan cream, vegetable stock, oregano, basil pepper and chili flakes. Blend the soup until smooth and let simmer for a couple of minutes. Adjust with more stock if you want it thinner. Finally season with salt after tasting it, as both the olives and the broth are savory.
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Recipe, text, and photography by Seiran Sinjari.

Seiran Sinjari's author photo on the left. On the right, her name in bold letters, underneath, her bio: Seiran is a Stockholm-based freelance food photographer and recipe developer who left her international legal career to pursue her quest for a life with more freedom and creativity. Her recipes and photographs have been featured in Thrive Magazine, Japanese Genic Magazine and recently she appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show. Her cooking is often inspired by flavors from the Middle East / her Kurdish roots or her encounters with different cuisines around the globe. You can follow her on social media at @legallyplantbased.

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