Recipe - Roasted Vegetable Soup With Garlic

1 lg Eggplant, halved lengthwise
2 lg Yellow onions; quartered
Olive oil
1 lg Sweet red pepper; cored, see
; quartered
3 Plum tomatoes; halved
3 Cl Garlic
One half teaspoon Dried thyme; crumbled
One half teaspoon Dried basil; crumbled
One fourth teaspoon Salt or to taste
1/8 teaspoon Black pepper
6 cup Beef stock

: Perheat oven to 400 f. Arrange the eggplant and onions in a large
shallow baking pan, brush the cut sides with 1 One half teaspoons of the oil,
and bake for 20 minutes. Add the red pepper, tomatoes and garlic to the
pan; brush the cut sides with the remaining 1 One half teaspoons of oil.
Sprinkle the thyme, basil, salt and black pepper over the vegetables and
bake 20 minutes more or until tender.

: Set aside the red pepper and 1 eggplant half. Chop the remaining
half eggplant, onions, tomatoes, and garlic and transfer them to a large
saucepan. Add the stock, bring it to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer
the mixture, stirring occasionally, for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, peel the red
pepper and dice the pulp. Dice the reserved eggplant.

: In a food processor or blender, working in batches if necessary,
whirl the cooked mixture until pureed. Return the puree to the saucepan and
stir in the minced eggplant and red pepper. Simmer the soup for 5 minutes or
until heated through. Makes 6 1 One half cup servings. Per serving: cal 107, fat
3g, sodium 232mg, chol 0mg, cal from fat 25.4% from: Reader's Digest Live
Longer Cookbook :

D/L from Prodigy 121494. Recipe collection of Sue Smith. 1.80=E1
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #256 by roy@indy.net (Roy) on Sep 25, 1997