Cold Tomato Orange Soup

Ingredients

• 250 g celery stalks
• 1 onion
• 1 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
• 500 ml tomato juice
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 untreated orange
• 2 oranges
• Salt
• Pepper (freshly ground)
• 4 drops Tabasco
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 4 orange slices
• 0.5 bunch Chives

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash celery stalks and cut into pieces. Remove skins from tomatoes, discard seeds, and chop finely.

2. 2.

   Peel and finely dice the onion; sauté in oil until translucent. Add celery, tomato pieces, and tomato juice; simmer for 10 minutes over medium heat to reduce slightly. Set aside and allow to cool.

3. 3.

   From the untreated orange, tear fine zest for garnish, grate the remaining peel very finely, and squeeze out the juice. Peel, halve, seed, and dice the other oranges.

4. 4.

   Add the diced oranges to the cooled soup, pour in orange juice, blend everything until smooth, and season with salt, pepper, Tabasco, and Worcestershire sauce.

5. 5.

   Wash chives, shake dry, and cut into ribbons. Whip cream until stiff peaks form; fill a pastry bag fitted with a round tip.

6. 6.

   Spoon the whipped cream over the cold soup and garnish with chives, orange zest, and orange slices before serving.