Recipe for Dragon’s Blood: Tomato Soup with Pesto Crostini

Serves 5.

The soup is a scary red colour hence the name, especially for Halloween.

We worked for a long time to try and make this soup reasonably foolproof. Good quality tinned tomatoes (another must for your store cupboard) give a really good result. Homemade tomato purée, although delicious can give a more variable result depending on the quality of the tomatoes.