Tomato Soup

I was looking for a side dish to go with leftover ribs, and I had a couple of elderly tomatoes. I made a simple tomato soup that focused on the tomato flavor.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
•  1/2 of a Vidalia onion, diced
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 2 fourteen ounces cans tomato sauce
• 2 medium tomatoes, diced
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes
• 12 - 16 ounces of water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions:

1. Saute the onion and peppers in the olive oil in a pressure cooker pot at medium for 5 minutes or so to soften onion, stirring now and then.
   (no lid yet!)
2. Add the tomato sauce, the tomato paste, sun-dried tomatoes, water and salt. 
3. Seal the pot with the lid, and bring up to high pressure.
4. Lower the heat, and cook 10 minutes at HIGH pressure.
5. Remove from heat, and let pan release pressure normally.
6.  Using an immersion blender, blend together all ingredients into a smooth soup.
   (Add water if needed to get a thinner consistency.)

Carole's Notes:

We liked this! Tomato is the essence of this soup - so very limited spices are added.
This makes 4 good sized servings.

The recipe is adapted from https://www.hippressurecooking.com/t3-tomato-tomato-tomato-soup/