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Winter Tomato Garlic Macaroni Soup
Recipe By : "Jessica Litman"
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups & Stews
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 garlic bulbs
2 large yellow onions
2 leeks -- white part only
4 tablespoons olive oil -- butter, or butter/oi
26 ounce tomatoes -- chopped, or 1 can pl
1 dried ancho peppers -- optional
1 quart Tomato Broth -- see note
1 quart chicken broth -- or vegetable broth o
6 cups water
rosemary
basil
parsley
sea salt
pepper
8 ounce macaroni
parmesan cheese -- optional
Separate the garlic bulbs into cloves and peel. Divide garlic cloves into
three piles. Mince onions with one third of the garlic cloves (I use a
food processor). Heat oil or butter in large (6 quart or more) pot and
saute onion and garlic until soft but not brown. Slice leeks thinly with
another third of the garlic cloves (I use the food processor again, with a
#2 slicing disk, but any slicing disk works fine, as does a knife), and
add to the pot. Saute until soft. Remove the stem and seeds from the
ancho peppers. Add the tomatoes, broths and water to the pot; then add
the herbs and ancho peppers. (I always have cheesecloth around, so I
usually chop up the fresh herbs and put them with the dried ancho pepper
in a piece of cheesecloth that I tie up like a bag; this makes it easy to
fish the herbs and ancho out at the end, which makes the soup prettier.)
Bring to a boil, cover the pot, lower the heat and simmer for two hours
until the onion and leek have pretty well melted into the soup. If
fishing the herbs and ancho pepper out of the soup isn't too messy, do it
now. Slice the reserved garlic very very thinly, and add to the soup pot.
Add water if it has gotten too thick. Simmer covered, for 30 minutes. If
you are going to save the soup and serve it tomorrow, stop here, cool and
refrigerate it. Otherwise, keep going. 10 minutes before serving,
uncover the pot, taste the soup, season with salt and pepper and bring to
a rolling boil. Add the macaroni, and cook for a couple minutes less than
you usually would, because you aren't going to drain it. Or, cook the
macaroni separately and add it just before you ladle the soup into bowls.
Grate a little parmesan cheese over the top, if you like. ---------------
NOTE: Tomato broth: -- I use a recipe adapted from one of Molly
O'Neill's Sunday New York Times Magazine columns: for one quart of tomato
broth, chop four pounds or more or fresh or canned plum tomatoes (or use 4
lbs of Pomi tomatoes in the box, which come already chopped), and put in a
4 quart pot with 1 teaspoon sea salt, 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh basil, 1
Tablespoon chopped fresh parsley, and 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary.
Bring just to a boil, stirring, and then strain immediately through a fine
mesh strainer (stirring the mixture from time to time with a wire whisk
will help it get through the strainer.)
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