Roasted Red Pepper Soup
This cold-weather meal is easy on the love handles! Roasted Red Pepper Soup offers big flavor without busting your newly-made resolution.
Let me guess… You are going to be nicer to your neighbor, spend more time with your kids, take a class at your local community college, and lose 10 pounds this year. Did I get it right???
We all tend to add a healthy objective to our list of new year’s resolutions. After two months of gorging ourselves on oven-baked dishes smothered in gravy, boxes of Christmas cookies, and hefty cheese platters, it’s time for a clean sweep.
A good veggie soup is a great thing to add to your new healthy routine.
Soup can fill you up, while making your meals substantially lighter in calories, fat and carbohydrates.
This roasted red pepper soup is gluten free, dairy free, low carb, low calorie and oh so delightful.
The vibrant sweet and tangy flavor of freshly roasted red peppers, combined with roasted garlic, herbs and a kick of spice make it extremely satisfying. Plus, it’s a great leftover to take to work for lunch. You’ll have jealous co-workers eagerly peeping over your cubical when they smell your creamy roasted red pepper soup.
You may need to make a double batch!
This particular Roasted Red Pepper Soup is one of my hubby’s favorite dishes. He has asked me to make it time and time again.
It always amazes me that a steak-sandwich-kind-of-guy could crave gluten free, meat free soup the way he does.
Yet after one taste, you’ll understand the appeal of this marvelous soup!
More Healthy Gluten Free Recipes:
Light and Creamy Asparagus Soup
Acorn Squash Stuffed with Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf ~ Jeanette’s Healthy Living
Polynesian Kebabs ~ Simply Gluten Free
Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Ingredients
- 3 pounds red bell peppers (8-10) halved and cleaned
- 5 cloves garlic in peel
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 cups chicken stock or vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1-2 tablespoons rice vinegar
Instructions
- Cut the peppers in half and remove all seeds and membranes. Press the red peppers flat with your hand and lay them on a foil lined, rimmed baking sheet. Place the garlic cloves on the baking sheet.
- Set the oven on broil and raise the rack to the upper position. Broil the red peppers and garlic for 15 minutes.
- Once the pepper skin has blackened, remove from the oven and place in a large zip bag to steam, about 10 minutes.
- Preheat a large heavy pot to medium heat. Add the oil, thyme, bay leaves, and onions. Cook for 10 minutes, until onions are soft.
- Add the broth, hot sauce, salt and pepper. Squeeze the garlic cloves out of the peels into the pot.
- Then peel the charred skin off each pepper half and place it in the pot.
- Reduce the heat, cover, and cook another 20 minutes. Remove the bay leaves and thyme sprigs. Then, using a hand-held immersion blender or standard blender, blend until smooth. *If using a blender, be sure to remove the plug on the lid and cover with a kitchen towel—this with allow the heat to vent without a big mess!
- Add the vinegar and salt again if needed.
- Serve with extra thyme leaves. In the photos I thinned out a little plain Greek yogurt with milk to make a fancy swirl on top. Pretty, but not necessary.
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What a healthy yet delicious bowl of soup! I will definitely make this one. Thanks!
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oh, how did you know I just love roasted red peppers, Spicy? thanks for this!
This looks amazing, beautiful photos! I just got a new immersion blender too, I’ll be trying this soon!
Love how gorgeous this healthy soup is! The roasted garlic, hot sauce and vinegar make this extra special.
Gorgeous soup and I’m sure the flavors are amazing!
I make roasted red pepper soup often. Love the depth of flavour – similar to yours, but not exactly the same. I like adding roasted peppers to a variety of soups for the smokey deep pepper flavour they add to the soup.
Pretty pics!
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Gorgeous color and a nice way to eat light but enjoy the warming comfort of soup during the cold months.
holy vibrant color goodness, wow – seriously looks so delish.
This looks great and what fabulous pictures!
Can’t go wrong with such a great recipe!
Roasted peppers sound wonderful and the soup looks amazing.
Love this soup! Gorgeous photos too!
It is amazing how much more flavor roasting adds to recipes like this! Great soup :)
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I need to wear my glasses when trying to read online. I thought at first you wrote that this was easy on the hands. Love handles make a lot of sense! I am in total soup mode! This looks terrific. What a fantastic color. Happy New Year!
Mmmm….I think I can taste this soup! Looks deeeeelish Sommer! Gorgeous pics and I love the Soup Plates..those rock!
This is gorgeous, Sommer. I can see why your husband begs you to make it. The color is so pretty and I’m sure it has a light, fresh taste.
Awesome soup – craving it right now. I am a huge soup lover and never really make roasted vegetable soup. Going to try this one. Too funny about the resolutions – i don’t make any :)