Puerta del Soup
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TypeStarter
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 27, 2026
A row of pepper tents on clear soup: a sober protest on your plate.
Clear Spanish vegetable soup served in deep plates, topped with a row of halved mini bell peppers as tents on the square. The sparse presentation refers to the camping protesters against the housing crisis: a few tents, much empty space.
Ingredients
- 1 liter vegetable broth
- 2 carrots
- 1 leek
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 mini bell peppers (red/yellow)
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper to taste
- handful parsley
Method
- Cut the onion, carrots, leek and potatoes into large pieces.
- Heat olive oil in a soup pot and sauté onion and garlic until translucent.
- Add carrot, leek and potato, fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the broth and bay leaf, bring to a boil.
- Simmer for 20 minutes until vegetables are tender.
- Season with salt and pepper, remove bay leaf.
- Cut the mini bell peppers in half lengthwise, remove seeds.
- Ladle the soup into deep plates.
- Place a row of pepper halves, cut side down, on each plate to look like tents.
- Garnish with parsley near the tents, not underneath.
Serving notes
- Serve with some bread, but keep it separate from the plate.
- Leave part of the plate empty so the row of tents stands out.