hi guys I am gonna show you how to make a ridiculously good roast tomato and roast garlic soup it is ideal for summer particularly when you can get your hands on some really good quality Tomatoes now even if you don't have some good quality Tomatoes you can still make this soup and the process I'm about to do is going to create the most beautiful sweet and caramelized tomatoes I'm also gonna roast off alongside the tomatoes some garlic now I've got two whole heads of garlic going in here which does seem like quite a lot but believe me once you roast off the garlic it takes away that astringent garlic flavor and instead it kind of makes it intensely sweet and really rich tomatoes go in roast garlic goes in and then I need to drizzle it with some olive oil some balsamic vinegar salt and pepper and we're good to go you may have noticed I'm using the whole head of garlic I've just taken off the tops of these to expose the cloves so that they get some of that flavor into them and alongside this I'm gonna add a few little sprigs of thyme just in here to give a little touch of flavor I have the oven set to about 200 degrees Celsius that's about 400 degrees Fahrenheit they're gonna roast off for about 35 minutes to 40 minutes but the way that you know that they're done is those tomatoes will have reduced down become intensely sweet and the garlic should be nice and mushy it's a technical term [Music] so once these have come out of the oven we have beautiful tender tomatoes and perfectly cooked mushy garlic now these are gonna sit aside and like I said if you had cooked these off right now you can just pop them into a jar and stick over a whole load of olive oil and it is absolutely gorgeous you can keep them in the fridge for a few weeks so they're handy to have now we're gonna crack on with the rest of this soup so a little glug of olive oil going into our pan to start off this soup we're going to add to that some onions straight into the pan and we're gonna soften them down alongside some carrots