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Ingredients
- olive oil flavored cooking spray
- 750 g cherry tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 celery rib
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 12 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- 500 ml vegetable stock
- 30 g basil, finely chopped
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Heat the oven to 170c.
- Spray a baking tray with a little oil and add the tomatoes and spray lightly with more oil on top.
- Place the baking tray in the oven for 30 minutes, or until the tomato skins are splitting and they are soft.
- Shake the tray every ten minutes so that they cook evenly.
- Meanwhile, chop the onion, carrot and celery rib into small evenly sized pieces, so that they cook at the same time.
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the onions, carrot and celery.
- Saute for 10 minutes, or until soft.
- Add the garlic, tomato paste and black pepper to the vegetables, and cook stirring for a further minute.
- Add the stock.
- When the tomatoes are ready, blend and seive them to remove the skins and seeds.
- Add them to the saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Reduce the heat and cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Use a stick blender to blend until smooth.
- Stir in the fresh basil and add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve with warm crusty bread.
