This is an appetizer or a starter, I made it so many times this summer. It’s easy to make and the best thing is, you can prepare it ahead. If you have some soup left, you can easily freeze it!!!

ingredients:

– 3 red paprika (bell pepper, capsicum)
– water
– 1 vegetable stock cube (groentebouillon blokje)
– pernod (pastis, ricard,…)
– pinch of ground cayenne pepper (ground chili pepper)
– 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
– olive oil

directions:

– wash the paprika, remove the seeds and cut into pieces
– put some olive oil in a large pot together with the paprika and stew it for a couple of minutes
– cover the paprika completely with water
– add the stock cube and ground white pepper
– bring it to boil and leave it boiling for at least 30 minutes
– mix very well with immersion blender (staafmixer)
– pour it through a fine sieve

Now you can serve it as a nice warm soup topped with a pinch of cayenne pepper and some drops of extra virgin olive oil. But if you like something special:

– put it in the fridge to cool down
– just before serving add some pernod, a pinch of cayenne pepper and top with some olive oil.

serve it in a nice glass with a small straw. Yummie!!!