Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Gao Jie.
Today we will make a unique
tomato and potato soup that is different from Chinese cooking.
Two Yukon potatoes.
Peeled and cut into pieces.
Bring a pot of water to boil.
At the same time boil the potatoes.
Now we prepare other ingredients.
Tomatoes.
Try to use naturally ripen tomatoes or canned ones.
Cut horizontally first.
Then vertically.
Lay it down and cut into small pieces.
A very quick way to dice tomatoes, but the knife has to be sharp.
After peeling the onion, shred it.
Garlic, coarsely cut it.
Basil leaves rolled up.
Shred.
Do you have leftover noodles at home?
Preferably thin ones.
Wrapped around chopsticks.
Then fry the noodles.
After the bottom slightly cooked, take out the chopsticks.
If there is no ready-made noodles, knead a small dough.
Add a little oil in the dough, then make thin noodles with it. It will be crispier after fried.
Take it out, when it is cooked.
Now, let's make the soup.
It tastes better with olive oil.
If you don't have it, you can use other oils too.
When the oil is hot, add onions.
Turn the heat on high.
Fry the onion until it is slightly browned, add garlic.
Continue to fry.
At this time there is more brown colour.
These browned onions and garlic will become the flavour in the soup.
Add tomatoes.
Stir-fry until the tomatoes are completely soft and about to turn into tomato sauce.
At this time, the potatoes are also boiled soft.
Put potatoes.
Then pour the hot water in.
Don’t pour it all in, save a little for adjustment.
Then use a hand blender to crush the tomatoes and potatoes.
The blender head is submerged in the soup and tilted a little bit.
Then you will find that the whole pot of soup is stirred up.
As long as the head of the blender is submerged in the soup, it will not splash.
In case you don't have a hand blender.
Before pouring in the hot water, let the tomatoes and potatoes cool a little bit first.
Then use a regular blender.
Finally bring the soup to a boil.
See how thick it is.
If it is too thick, you can add more hot water.
If it is too thin, turn on low heat and let the water in the soup evaporate.
Turn off the heat and add salt.
Black pepper, and basil leaves.
While it’s hot, let’s serve.
Some olive oil.
Scrape a bit of Parmesan cheese with a peeler.
More black pepper.
Basil leaves for garnish.
Finally put on the fried noodles.
This soup base mainly consists of four ingredients:
tomatoes, potatoes, onions and garlic.
These are the most common ingredients around the world.
Basil, olive oil and parmesan are not so common,
but not rare neither.
It is ok, if you don't have them.
The taste of the soup comes mainly from tomatoes,
and potatoes thicken the soup.
The thin noodles absorb the taste of the soup,
but still retains a bit of crispy texture,
which has an interesting flavour too.
Thank you all for watching. I’m Xiao Gao. See you in the next episode^^