Help.... i have so many tomato's and red peppers

[jo25]

has anybody got a good simple recipe for tomato and pepper soup?

TIA

I would probably roast them all in the oven to remove skins (remove tomato seeds), then soften an onion, add the roasted tomato and pepper, some veg stock, simmer for a while then blend. Serve with a swirl of creme fraiche or yog. It's a bit of a faff tom and red pepper soup, I think. Would use peppers from a jar if I was going to make it! (am lazy!)

or how about ratatouille?

or this one from the bbc.

I haven't, but I would think the main problem you would have here would be coping with the tomato and pepper skins, so you might have to skin them first, which can be a bit of a faff!

Because I'm a lazy cow, I wouldn't bother. This is what I would do:

Slice and onion, peel and chop a couple of large cloves of garlic, chop the tomatoes and peppers and fry all this gently in olive oil till soft.

Then add chicken stock or water, season with salt, black pepper and oregano/mixed herbs/herbes de provence (whatever you have to hand) and simmer for about 20 minutes.

After this, blitz it in a blender or with a hand blender, and then seive it into a clean pan - this will get rid of any bits of skin.

Taste and season again. You might need to add a bit of sugar as it could be a touch bitter. Would also be lovely to add some fresh, chopped basil and cream/yoghurt before serving.

Sorry - pedant alert - sieve!