Red chickpea soup

Ingredients (x 2-3):
1 onion
1-2 cloves of garlic
1 carrot
100-150 g frozen soup vegetables
3/4 tablespoon soy sauce
½ tablespoon red curry paste
½ (vegetarian) bouillon cube
3 tomatoes
1 abundant tablespoon of tomato puree
around 200 g of chickpeas
7 dl water
olive oil
salt
pepper
a pinch of paprika powder and/or chili powder, rosemary, basil and oregano

Preparation:
Chop the garlic and onion. Cut the carrot into small cubes. Put these vegetables along with the soep vegetables into a pan with olive oil. Sauté them for a few minutes on mild heat. Then add salt, paprika and chili powders, as well as the soy sauce and the curry paste. Sauté the vegetables for a couple of more minutes.


Cut the tomatoes into small pieces and remove the green part. Remove the conservation water from the chickpeas. Add into the pan the tomatoes, the tomato puree, ½ bouillon cube, water and the chickpeas. Heat until the soup starts evaporating and then cook the soup on mild heat under cover for 20 minutes, mixing once in a while. Add the remaining spices during the cooking time.
It's a good idea to serve the soup with bread or grated cheese.

Cherry tomato pasta cooked au gratin

This dish is extremely easy to make (provided that you've got a grill function in your oven.) and has very simple ingredients. And it is very tasty because of the few but well-chosen ingredients that really get into their element first in the gratin oven and then in regular oven!

Ingredients (x4):
400 g short pasta
300-400 g cherry tomatoes
3-4 cloves garlic
bread crumbs
basil (fresh or dry)
grated parmesan
salt
olive oil

Preparation:
Heat up the oven to 200 c using the grill function. Wash the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half. Put olive oil on the bottom and sides of a baking pan and put the cherry tomatoes in it, so that they cover the surface of the baking pan. Dust on the tomatoes some salt, grinded garlic, basil in pieces, a somewhat abundant amount of parmesan and bread crumbs. At the end add olive oil on the pan the way that the food gets to gratinate properly. Start the oven and cook the pasta meanwhile. In 15 minutes the cherry tomatoes should be gratinated and the pasta ready. Once you have removed the water from the ready pasta, pour the pasta into the baking pan and mix it with the sauce. Put it still in the oven for 5-10 minutes.