Hearty Tomato Soup

INGREDIENTS

• 5medium size tomatoes
• 1medium size red onion
• 1 ¹⁄₂cups vegetable broth
• 1teaspoon flour
• 2tablespoons margarine
• ¹⁄₄cup cheddar cheese
• ¹⁄₄cup parsley
• 2cloves or 2 garlic
• ¹⁄₂teaspoon salt and pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. If you wish, place 3 to 4 parsley leaves to the top of the soup for decoration.
2. Pour the soup again to your sauce pan and add the cheese.
3. Add half of the parsley leaves to the soup and pour it to your food processor, and liquefy it.
4. Let it boiled and reduce the heat to simmer for 15 minutes.
5. Now, slowly add the vegetable broth to the mixture and whisk to avoid lumps on the soup.
6. When the onions are cooked, add the 1 small teaspoon of flour and mix well, cook it for 2 more minutes.
7. Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.
8. After that, add the onion and the tomatoes to the saucepan and cook for about 5 min.
9. Add margarine to a medium size saucepan and let it melt at medium heat.
10. Slice the onion thinly.
11. Cut each tomato into four pieces.

    source food.com