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Tomato & Fennel Soup with Grilled Cheese Crostini
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Tomato & Fennel Soup with Grilled Cheese Crostini
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Skill Level
Easy
Preparation Time
10 minutes
Total Time
40 minutes
Servings
6
Cost Per Serving
$2.55
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Ingredients
Recipe Ingredients
Roasted Tomato & Fennel Soup
8 (about 2 lbs)
Medium Tomatoes (any variety), halved, or two 14 oz cans of Whole Plum Tomatoes
2tbsp
Olive Oil
6
Cipollini Onions, halved (or 1 Medium Onion, quartered)
1
Fennel Bulb, core removed and sliced into small chunks
1
Small Garlic Head, halved
2 tsp
Dried Oregano
2 tsp
Fennel Seed
1/2 cup
Greek Yogurt
1 L
Vegetable Stock
To taste
Salt and Black Pepper
Grilled Cheese Crostini
12
Slices of a Crusty Whole Grain French Bread
1/2 cup
Pecorino Cheese (or your favourite hard cheese), grated
1 clove
Garlic
Directions
Cooking Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Remove as many seeds as you can from the halved tomatoes.
Place your halved tomatoes, cipollini onions, garlic heads and fennel pieces onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Drizzle with olive oil and oregano. Sprinkle fennel seeds and about a 1/2 tsp of salt and black pepper on top.
Flip the tomatoes so that they are cut side down. Roast in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until tomatoes are shriveled and lightly brown.
Once removed and cool enough to touch, pull the skins off the tomatoes and onions, and squeeze the cloves of garlic from their skins.
Add all roasted ingredients to a blender with the vegetable stock and Greek yogurt. Blend until smooth.
In a medium sized sauté pan over medium heat, press the slices of bread firmly into the pan. Grill for about 2 minutes.
Remove bread from pan and carefully rub with a clove of garlic Press one side of bread slices firmly into the grated cheese and then put back into the pan, cheese side up, until melted (about another minute). Serve with the soup.
Nutrition
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PDF link to nutrition facts table for tomato and fennel soup with grilled cheese crostini
Nutrition Facts
Why are tomatoes red? The colour comes from a plant chemical called lycopene. There is evidence that foods containing lycopene probably protect against prostate cancer. When you cook tomatoes to make soup or sauce, even more lycopene is available to be absorbed than is in raw tomatoes.
Fennel contains a plant nutrient called anethole. In animal studies, anethole has been shown to lower inflammation and to help prevent cancer.
Pecorino cheese made from sheep’s milk, contains 3-5 times as much conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) as pecorino cheese made from cow’s milk. CLA is an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid. Research suggests that CLA helps preserve muscle and prevent fat gain. In a study of overweight dieters, when the people stopped dieting and gained back weight, those taking CLA were more likely to gain muscle and not fat.