Romesco is a classic Spanish sauce made of ground tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, olive oil, and almonds. We turned it into soup. The powdered milk and the silky texture of cooked onions and roasted peppers help make it creamy, and the lentils add thickness.
I was a bit unsettled by a negative review, but I made this recipe and found it delicious. It seems the right combination of peppers to lentils.
My family loved this soup, a combination of all the good things we are trying to eat these days, would be included on South Beach Diet.(I think) One could roast their own red pepper to reduce cost. I naturally increase the spices in anything I cook. For a family meal, it could be the main course.
Indeed, this isn't an inexpensive soup to make! But I love it for lunch. I've frozen individual portions with great success. Nice flavor (and even better with a sprinkling of feta or goat cheese!.
I was quite disappointed with this recipe. This soup has a strong flavor of the roasted red peppers (btw, the cost for the amount of organic red peppers required to make this soup was $18!), including a distinct bitter note. The flavor combination sounds good, but didn't work for me at all. It's just too much, a simpler combination might have worked better. Less peppers, less powdered milk, more tomatoes, maybe some lightly sauteed kale as an additon...
