She has a heap of killer recipes and reviews of resteraunts here in Korea, and all the recipes contain ingredients that you can find (eventually) in South Korea.
I will add that this lucky lady has some sort of oven, so I can't try out all the recipes but I was craving tomato soup and thought I would give this one a go.
Home made tomato soup
Ingredients
x2 cans of Hunts Tomato Paste
400ml chicken stock - I only had cubes so I dissolved 2 cubes in the 400ml. Worked out fine.
600ml of milk
1 onion
4 cloves of garlic - this for me was a garlic overload. Next time I make it I will only add 2 cloves. I think Korea does something weird to your taste buds after a while... You start needing more garlic with everything.
200ml of cream (optional) - I opted for 100ml. After all, I am on a diet
A knob of butter
1 tbs mixed herbs
2 tbs garlic powder - I forgot to add the garlic powder till the end, and probably only added 2 tsps. Next time I make it I will add the full amount and see how it effects the flavour.
fresh basil leaves - totally didn't add this
Salt and pepper to taste - I use sea salt and cracked pepper. I ended up adding a shit load of salt.
Directions
Finely chop the onion and garlic and heat it up in a pan with a bit of oil and your butter. I used olive oil. Add the tomato paste and chicken stock and bring to the boil. I think this is where you add the garlic powder too. Bring it all to boil then add your milk, and then cream if you have it. Add salt and pepper as you like it and the herbs. Then there you go! Tomato soup.
Now, things to note - this makes a HEAP of soup, so if you are cooking for one (like me) then I would halve everything. Because this will keep me going for weeks. I am actually gonna freeze it, or even see if the girls want to try some on Monday night.
The garlic was a little strong for me. I mean, I love garlic as much as the next person but I regret eating the soup before I have to go out. No kissing boys for me tonight (unless they are Korean, then I guess they won't notice). So when I make it next I will halve the garlic. So for 1 person soup I will only add 1 clove and a half onion. I really think that will be enough.
I'm not sure if it was because I forgot the garlic powder but I needed to add a heap of salt. I am happy with how it tastes but I don't usually add that much salt to anything.
All of this stuff you can get at Homeplus btw.
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| Looks good huh? |
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| Just a small bowl will do - I have enough to feed the whole of Osan AB |
Anyway it would have been fab with some bread, but I am trying to say no to carbs.
If you make it let me know what you think!
And try and check out the other blog, there are some really good things to try.
Time to go freeze my soup^^
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Looks yum!
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