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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Great color on that soup. I’m a big fan of roasted peppers in general, so this is looking super tasty to me. I think I would add some golden croutons on top, but that would certainly take it out of the gluten free genre!
Love the color! I love roasted pepper soup, I have not tried myself yet but I order it if it is on the menu. Will definitely put in the recipe list for 2012 :)
Hope you are doing well.
Red peppers must not be $3 a piece in your neck of the woods…
pro tip: if you go to any indian grocery store, such as Patel Brothers, red bell peppers (along with lots of other produce!) are MUCH cheaper. :)
i love roasting bell peppers, most of the time during summer since they are not so pricy.
Lovely soup Sommer!
What a stunning soup…the color is fantastic, and no doubt just as delicious as it is beautiful!
Oh my goodness it’s roasted pepper love this morning! I’ll skip breakfast and have a bowl of this please :D
Love this recipe! I make all my roasted peppers just like you show and have to make a soup with them! Thank your. I am sharing this on my Naked Moxie fb wall… great share! :)
Love the photos
The smell of roasted red peppers is one of my favorites! Just delicious!
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Beautious. I think I just made up a word ;)
I’ve bookmarked this for sure…it sounds and looks fantastic! Also, the photography is amazing…thanks for sharing!
Looks absolutely gorgeous, Sommer!
What a perfectly lovely soup! I just might have to make this for today’s lunch.
Love the colour of this soup! Sounds so delish :)
Oh wow! Can I swim in this ;-)
Looks so divine! Roasted pepper is my fave!
xx
Katie {Epicurean Mom}
I love a good roasted red pepper soup. I will definitely add this to my “to-make” list.
I LOVE your photographs – and that recipe is going on my new To Do List!