Weekend Cooking: Chinese Tomato Soup

In the Netherlands the Chinese restaurants always serve a typical tasting sweet tomato soup and I love the taste of it! So when I saw this recipe for the soup, I knew I must try it. Zeronic made it during the weekend of the read-a-thon as an easy dinner and we had the leftovers for lunch next day. It was a really nice soup, thogh not totally the same. This might be due to the fact that I replaced the chicken broth for vegetable broth because I don't eat meat. (and this makes me worry that I ate a soup based on chicken broth in these restaurants all those years without me knowing...) I got the recipe from a Dutch site that is called Yummy in my Tummy and I will translate my adjusted version below for you :)

Chinese Tomato Soup (serves 6)
- 2l vegetable broth
- 1 leek
- 200 gr tomato frito
- 0.5 tsp gingerpowder
- 1 tbsp sweet ketjap (Sweet Indonesian soy sauce)
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp apple sauce
- 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp ve-tsin (available in toko)
- salt and pepper to taste

Halve the leek and cut into rings, wash the leek. While bringing your stock to a boil, mix in a bowl the tomato frito with applesauce, ketjap, sugar tomato ketchup, ginger, salt and pepper. Add this to the broth while stirring. Mix the cornstarch with 3 tbsp of water and then add it to the pan. Bring the soup to a boil once more, add the leek and set the fire on low. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes with a lid on the pan. Add the ve-tsin and taste the soup. You can add some more salt, pepper, ketjap, applesauce or ketchup to taste.

This post is part of Weekend Cooking. Please check it out! There are always a lot of yummy recipes shared during the weekend :)

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