Traditional Seafood Soup

This is a great meal, tasty and healthy and a little different to the usual run-of-the-mill meals. It's a very simple tomato-based soup, but the seafood gives it great flavour and the addition of fresh basil makes it extra-special.

The ingredients I use are as follows although, as always, you should vary the recipe to suit your taste and style.

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 clove garlic sliced
250g Marinara mix
1 glass rose wine
1 stock cube
1 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tins tomatoes
½ cup tomato paste
½ lemon
½ bunch fresh basil shredded

Heat olive oil in large frying pan or wok then briefly fry the sliced garlic. Add the butter and marinara mix and fry gently until cooked, about 5 minutes. Add wine and reduce for 5 minutes, then add the mustard and stock cube and stir in. Finally add the tomato paste and tinned tomatoes and simmer gently for about 40 min.

When cooked, remove from heat and add the freshly squeezed lemon juice and half of the basil, torn or chopped. Stir in then garnish with the remaining basil and serve with some lovely crusty bread or rolls. Enjoy!