Hot tomato sambuca soup with coffee-salt focaccia

AUTHOR
Kate Willis
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 1
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 1 heaped Tbsp coffee beans
  • 3 Branches of rosemary
  • 1 TABLESPOON coarse sea salt (e.g. fleur de sel)
  • 1 (400 g) Roll of pizza dough (refrigerated shelf)
  • 5-6 Tbsp good olive oil
  • 1 Onion
  • 1–2 Garlic cloves
  • 1 red chilli pepper
  • 1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste
  • 1 can(s) (850 ml) Tomatoes
  • 1 TABLESPOON Vegetable broth
  • 3-4 Stem(s) Parsley
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper, sugar
  • 3-4 Tbsp Sambuca (aniseed liqueur)

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 225 °C/circulating air: 200 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Crush coffee beans in a mortar. Wash the rosemary, dab dry and remove the needles. Mix the coffee beans, rosemary and coarse salt.

  2. 2

    Unroll the pizza dough together with the baking paper on the baking tray. Spread the coffee mixture over it. Sprinkle with 3-4 tablespoons of oil. Bake in a hot oven for 8-10 minutes.

  3. 3

    In the meantime peel and finely dice the onion and garlic. Clean the chilli, cut lengthwise, remove seeds, wash and chop. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large pot. Sauté onion, garlic and chilli in it.

  4. 4

    Stir in the tomato paste, sweat briefly. Add the tomatoes, juice and 3⁄4 l water, bring to the boil and stir in the stock. Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.

  5. 5

    Remove the pizza dough from the oven and immediately cut into rectangles. Wash parsley, shake dry and cut into fine strips. Remove soup from the stove and puree finely with a hand blender. Season to taste with salt, pepper, sugar and sambuca.

  6. 6

    Arrange the soup and sprinkle with parsley. Add the coffee-salt crackers.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
290 kcal
CARBS
36 g
FATS
11 g
PROTEINS
7 g