Soups Recipes - Glistening Tomato Soup with Fragrant Rice

Ingredients

• 550 g/20 oz/1large can tomato juice

• 30 ml/2 tbsp tomato puree (paste)

• 3 whole cloves

• 1 lemon slice

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups chicken stock

• 1 bay leaf

• 1 onion

• 6 whole black peppercorns

• Salt

• 75 g/3 oz/3/4 cup cooked Thai fragrant rice

• 1 tomato, thinly sliced

• A few snipped chives

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Method:

1. Put the tomato juice in a saucepan and stir in the tomato puree.

2. Add the cloves, lemon slice, stock, bay leaf, onion, peppercorns and a good pinch of salt.

3. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Strain and return to the pan.

4. Stir in the rice and heat through. Ladle into warm bowls and float a slice of tomato on each. Top with a few chives.