Deconstructed Tomato Soup – Experiment Two

As I suspected, this one was a lot more fun. I basically whipped up a normal batch of tomato soup (though I left out the cheese I’d normally add in).. and let that simmer for a bit. I used a can of san marzano tomatoes, a little tomato paste, some veggie stock, basil, garlic, salt, pepper. The basics.

Once that had simmered thoroughly, I pureed it with my stick blender. I should have used a bigger pot, I think because I splashed myself in the face with flecks of hot soup. That was no fun at all!

Anyway, enough belly aching. So I let the soup cool down a bit after blending and straining the remaining chunks out, then tasted and corrected seasoning. Once this was done, I added 2 grams of agar agar and put it back on to boil. Once it boiled, I poured it into a measuring cup.  I got my trusty flavor injector looking syringe thingy and piped the soup into the plastic tubes again.. then straight to the icebath for a few moments to cool off..

This time the soup didn’t want to leave the tubes as much so I had to get a little aggressive with it.

 

Now, this plated beautifully.. and tasted FREAKING AMAZING!!@!  I liked the textural contrasts. Tomato has a natural gelling agent (pectin) and I feel like this wasn’t too far off from what could be one of it’s natural states.. I am rambling.

I had some left over, so I poured it into some small bowls for jellosoup.

 

Next, dessert!

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About The Confluent Kitchen

I am food obsessed. I love trying new recipes, putzing in the kitchen, making my own cheese and other random kitchen tom-foolery. Follow my exploits.. the good, the bad, and the burnt.
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1 Response to Deconstructed Tomato Soup – Experiment Two

  1. Tomato Jello soup! Andy Warhol’s got nothing on you!

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