Place the tomatoes cut side up in a baking tray, add the whole garlic cloves and season well, sprinkle with the sugar and drizzle over the olive oil.
Roast for about 45 minutes, until the tomatoes are lightly browned and beginning to ooze juice and then remove the tray from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
Pick out the roasted garlic cloves and squeeze the soft flesh out of the husks onto a saucer.
Place all the tomatoes and the squeezed out garlic pulp in a blender with all the juices from the roasting tray.
Blend very well until the tomatoes are velvety smooth, add a little vegetable stock if the soup feels to thick and then check and correct the seasoning but remember the flavour will alter once it’s chilled so you’ll have to check again.
Pour into a bowl and chill for about 5 hours, at least.
Make the pesto in a pestle and mortar by combining the the basil, the garlic and the pine nuts, until you have a fine grained pulp and stir this into the olive oil – it has to be quite runny. Follow the instrucitons on how to make pesto here.
Leave it to stand for a few hours will remove the sharpness of the garlic.
Serve the soup with a quarter of lightly roasted tomato and some pesto drizzled over each serving.