Tómatsúpa

Quick Tomato Soup

Ingredients

40 g margarine
1 Tbsp flour
500 ml hot vegetable broth
2 Tbsp tomato paste
500 g chopped tomatoes
1 tsp salt
1 tsp thyme
1 pinch of pepper


Preparation

Heat the butter in a large saucepan, add the flour and beat with a whisk.

Add the hot vegetable broth in portions and always stir with a whisk until smooth.

Then add the tomato paste, then the chopped tomatoes to the hot pot and stir together.

Finally season with salt, thyme and pepper.

Personally, I thought it was very noticeable in this recipe that it dates back to the 1940s and that in Iceland they had meat or vegetable stock, but no fresh tomatoes. I then “spiced it up” with a can of corn and some Tabasco; it tasted very “post-war.” But spiced up it was good!

We then ate the soup in homemade Brauðskálar - a very nice experience!

Thanks for the tip! ;-)

[Translated from here.]