Vampire Blood Tomato Soup with Muenster Sammies

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Total Time:
1 hr 20 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
1 hr 0 min
Yield:
8 servings
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 fennel bulb, chopped, about 2 1/2 cups
  • 1/2 large onion, chopped, about 1 cup
  • 4 cloves garlic, smashed
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seed
  • 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional
  • 1 (28-ounce) can plum tomatoes, preferably San Marzano
  • 2 cups homemade vegetable broth or low-sodium canned
  • 2 cups tomato juice
  • 6 basil leaves, torn
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
  • Muenster Sammies, recipe follows

Directions

Heat olive oil in a medium sauce pot over medium-high heat. Add fennel, onion, garlic, salt, fennel seed and crushed pepper, if using, and cook until vegetables soften and brown slightly, about 5 minutes. Drain and reserve juice from the tomatoes, then crush tomatoes gently with your hands. Add the tomatoes, increase heat to high, and cook until they begin to brown slightly, about 5 minutes.

Add the reserved tomato juice, vegetable broth, tomato juice, and basil leaves. Bring to a boil, stir, reduce heat to medium low, cover and cook until vegetables are cooked through and soup reduces and thickens, about 30 minutes.

Remove pot from stove and puree the soup in batches, with an immersion, regular blender, or food processor. Stir in lemon juice and season with pepper to taste. Serve.

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Muenster Sammies with Apple Jelly:

Optional garnishes:

  • Dill pickle rounds
  • Fennel fronds
  • Spanish olives with pimentos

Special equipment: Cookie cutters (pumpkins, ghosts, black cat, bats and witches), optional

Toast bread in toaster or toaster oven until slightly crisp, about 5 minutes (or less if using a toaster.) Spread one side of each slice of bread with apple jelly. Layer the cheese over the apple jelly, top with remaining slice of bread. Cut out as desired. Garnish as desired.

Yield: 8 sandwiches

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  • on October 31, 2012

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    Made the soup and sammies tonight for my family. Was highly impressed with the flavors of both. The only deviation was that I used two star anise instead of fennel seed because I didn't have it on hand. It makes a lot of soup. This would be great for grown up Halloween party.

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  • on November 02, 2010

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    Very easy to make! Tasty! I used pumpernickle swirl bread with ghost, pumpkin and cat cookie-cutters. They were very cute and went very fast!

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  • on October 27, 2010

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    Although I gave it 5 stars, I have not made the recipe but the ingredients sound great. I have googled the test tubes with stoppers and stand but can anyone tell me what size tubes you have used to serve the soup. I prefer to get the right size before I make the soup in the proper presentation. When I get them and make the recipe I will post my review. Appreciate any info. Emily

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