Cooking, Recipes, Wine............ and Ethical Foie Gras - At Last!

When you prepare a soup, often you really need to leave it until the next day.  Not this one - quick preparation time and delicious straight away.  It's so fresh once you throw in a few leaves of corriander at the end - almost like a thai dish.

Ingredients (Serves 4-6) :
3tbsp olive oli
1 onion
2 stalks of celery / leeks
2 tsp fresh ground cumin
1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
big pinch of sugar
1 x 400g tin chickpeas drained
600ml stock
juice of 1/2 lemon
some fresh corriander

optionally:  a clove of garlic, some chilli

Heat the olive oil, add onions celery and salt.

Cook on low heat, lid on unitl soft but not coloured - about 10mins.
Add cumin and cook for another minute.
Pour tomatoes in their juice, sugar, chickpeas and stock simmer for 5 mins.
Add lemon juice and corriander. Season to taste.

I used some fresh chopped tomatoes + tomato concentrate instead of tinned tomatoes. And brown sugar instead of white.  I'd definitely add a little chilli or chilli paste.