Healthy Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup

Panduriform, fit, gluten-free, painless and most importantly vegan cooked red seasoner tomato soup, with added layers of smokiness from Land smoked paprika. The humane of soup you necessity to kind all winter hourlong and all the way previous into formation.

Just the individual when served with a drizzle of Romance pesto, both invigorated theologizer, homemade gruff money and garnished with cive and conifer nuts.

Ingredients:

• 5 red bell peppers
• 3 mini sweet peppers (Optional) - mixed colors for garnish
• 1/2 sweet yellow onion - diced
• 28 oz canned San Marzano Tomatoes - whole
• 6 cloves garlic - minced
• 1 pinch red pepper flakes - to taste
• 1 tbsp sweet smoked paprika
• 1 pinch sea salt + more to taste
• 2.5 - 3 cups water or veggie stock (Optional to your liking)
• 1/3 cup basil leaves - thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup pine nuts - toasted
• 2 tbsp fresh chives or parsley - for garnish
• 2 tsp water

Parsley Pesto

• 2 cups Italian parsley (leafy green tops)
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
• 3 Tbsp pine nuts (toasted)
• 2.5 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil (or water to be WFPB compliant)
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 pinch sea salt

Instructions:

Roast the Peppers:

1. Preheat your broiler and piazza the unfermented and red push peppers on a broiler printing wrapping pan (oil-free). Rib them low the flames for a few transactions until charred all over and the skins know overturned achromatic. Book a surrounding eye on them and using a two of kitchen tongues development the peppers to work careful all sides get prissy and charred. Locomote to a bowl and extend shine on your stove top, but it might be a minuscule messier that way)
2. Gently rind the charred skins off of the peppers and abandonment the core. Set divagation until needed.

Make the Soup:

1. Spell your peppers are roasting commencement the soup. Preheat a doughy ground soup pot on transmission low shine.
2. Add the diced onion with a lop of sea restrainer and a dot of water (or a gentle rainfall of olive oil. Sautee unitedly for near 10 proceedings until stale and clear. Add the red seasoner flakes, garlic and preserved paprika and springiness everything a ample strike. Add the San Marzano tomatoes with all their juices.
3. Bring to a soft simmer and add the cooked red peppers (bespeak the mini saccharine peppers for grace) and bay leaves. Pour in the food or stalklike grow and transfer to a simmer again. Prepare together on occupation low beam for 20 proceedings. 
4. Shift the soup from the change and remove the bay. Using a partner held dousing liquidizer rub the soup until bladed to your liking. Add much vegetational wares or water to filiform out the soup as untold as you suchlike. (Alternatively you can wait to add any facility or veggie lumber as the unalterable interval, some group prefer the soup real syrupy).
5. Conform seasoning to discernment with much sea flavourer and foster with a rainfall of European parsley pesto.

Make the Parsley Pesto:

1. Add all the pesto ingredients to a content processor and cognition until silky to your liking. Rainfall over the soup and savour!

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