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Hallooooo, fall!
And hallo, tomato soup. Yes, it’s soup season, although, let’s be honest – I would not be sad if I ended up eating this for 12 out of 12 months of the year. This homemade tomato soup could love me all year long.
I based this recipe off of the surf of tomato soup recipe in The New Classics cookbook (affiliate link) by Saveur and yes I’ve substantially read this cookbook imbricate to cover. Reading a cookbook like this imbricate to imbricate substantially ways cooking it imbricate to cover, which is possibly the weightier thing that overly did happen to me.
In This Post: Everything You Need For Tomato Soup
- Ingredients You’ll Need
- VIDEO for Tomato Soup
- How to Make the Weightier Tomato Soup
- What to Serve with Tomato Soup
- FAQ Well-nigh Making Tomato Soup
Why You’Ll Love This Simple Homemade Tomato Soup
Can I wrack-up your mind for a second? This homemade tomato soup starts with bacon. B-a-c-o-n. Tomato soup // salary // it just works. These are the succulent ways in which Saveur inspires.
Does it veritably NEED the bacon? Yes! Just kidding, you could skip it if you have to. But it adds such a subtle smokiness and richness that you didn’t plane know you were missing from tomato soup until now. That secret little depth that will have you saying “why is this so good?!” over and over in between cheesy specie dunks.
The velvety texture that you get from the blending and the drizzle of surf moreover just cannot be beat. And it really is so easy to bring together this trappy little trencher of repletion which is unchangingly an wool win in any book. Yay simplicity! Yay deep, deep deliciousness.
Ingredients You’ll Need
Here’s what else we’re working with:
- Some fresh veggies and aromatics like carrots, onion, and garlic.
- Yummy herbs like thyme and bay leaf.
- Lots of tomato goodness thanks to a succulent can of (HAND-CRUSHED) San Marzano.
- Cream. Because, of course.
Ohhhmygosh, the smells that will happen. I am having a nonflexible time imagining anything increasingly comforting than stuff in my kitchen experiencing the simmer-smells of this simple homemade tomato soup in progress.
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Let’s Make Something Delicious
Start this soup by crisping up some salary in a large pot or, plane better, a Dutch oven.
Once things are looking crispy, toss in your cut-up veggies. Requite things a little stir to stratify everything in the salary grease.
Plop in some tomato paste with a little bit of flour and watch things start to carmelize. Okay, gosh. This soup, folks! We’re not plane washed-up and it’s so good!
Pour your can of San Marzano tomatoes in withal with some zestless spices and goop and just let the soup simmer. The upper maintenance, if you can plane undeniability it that, part of the soup is done.
To finish, requite your soup a quick rush in the blender to puree it (or use an immersion blender, if you have one), splash in some surf and a lil’ salt and pepp treatment and boom. That’s all! An incredibly easy and succulent soup in an hour.
How To Make The Weightier Homemade Tomato Soup Every Time
- Add flavorful herbs and spices. Basil is often found in tomato soup, which, yes, is DELICIOUS. However, other spices and herbs can be widow to some flavor. Rosemary and thyme, chives and parsley, plane a zippy cheese such as feta can level up your tomato soup.
- Don’t forget the cream. Add in coconut milk, heavy cream, or butter to requite your tomato soup a silky texture. We’re talking richness that tastes decadent without stuff overindulgent.
- Add a drizzle, fresh zest, or dollop right surpassing serving. This is going to take it riiiiiiight over the top. Some life-changing ideas: a spoonful of pesto, sour cream, fresh herbs, or lots of shredded cheese.
What To Serve With This Tomato Soup
I am going to have to ask you —> please make some extremely cheesy Parmesan garlic specie (recipe coming soon!) or grilled cheese or grilled sourdough specie or something, considering what is tomato soup without the cheesy specie for dunking?
But with that stuff said, ultimately what is going to warm you to your toes and make you finger like a long nap on the hovel is this simple homemade tomato soup. WITH BACON, remember. With bacon.
And if veritably necessary to round things out a bit, here are a few untried things to join the party as well:
- Simple Untried Salad (SOS simple and seriously delicious)
- Brussels and Kale Caesar with Cheesy Croutons (those croutons are basically a salad topper and soup dipper in one)
- Toasted Specie and Parmesan Kale Salad (simple, zippy, cheesy, YUM)
- Bacon and Brussels Sprout Salad (MORE BACON!)
Alright! Today is your day to make simple homemade tomato soup. I can just feeeeeeel it.
It’s smoky, a little bit sweet, and just as linty or not-creamy as you want it to be. It’s simple – ready in just under an hour, with MOST of that time stuff the part where you just gaze lovingly at the pot of simmering tomatoes and let the smells of carrots and onions and garlic and salary wrap you up in their loveliness.
Cheers to your relaxing, comforting, hug-in-a-bowl tomato soup day!
Homemade Tomato Soup: FAQs
The main goal here is to use higher quality tomatoes, and usually whole canned tomatoes are higher quality whereas pre-crushed tomatoes are made from shit and pieces of lower quality tomatoes. That stuff said, I’ve made this without hand-crushing the tomatoes (either using crushed canned tomatoes, or breaking untied the tomatoes in the pan with a spoon) and it’s still delicious.
Skip the bacon, use vegetable goop instead of yellow broth, and skip the surf at the end (or throw a handful of cashews into the blender with the soup to make it creamy).
Yes! It should alimony in the freezer for 3-4 months.
Yes! See recipe notes for instructions.
It totally works to make this meat-free, but you’ll lose a bit of the savor the salary adds. Just add in some oil to sauté the veggies in the second step.
Simple Homemade Tomato Soup
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Total Time: 1 hour -
Yield: 4
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Simple Homemade Tomato Soup with carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes, broth, and salary for deliciously rich flavor. It’s super easy to make and is unseat to be your next unprepossessed weather favorite!
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
- 2 carrots, chopped
- half of a yellow onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 4 cups chicken broth (more to thin out the soup at the end as needed)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 28–ounce can whole San Marzano tomatoes
- cream (optional – to add at the end as desired)
- kosher salt to taste (I like 1-2 teaspoons)
Instructions
- Fry the salary in a large soup pot over medium low heat until salary starts to get crispy and browned, well-nigh 5-8 minutes.
- Add the carrots, onion, and garlic to the salary in the pan; sauté for 5-10 minutes until the vegetables are very whiffy and tender.
- Add the tomato paste – stir for a few minutes until you can see/smell the tomato paste starting to brown and caramelize. Add the flour and stir for a minute or so.
- Pour the tomatoes and their juice into a trencher and crush them with your hands. Add the crushed tomatoes, broth, thyme, and bay leaf to the soup pot. Simmer for 30 minutes. Puree in batches and return to the pot. Add surf if you want. Season with salt. Look at that homemade tomato soup, you champ.
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Notes
Instant Pot Instructions: Follow the recipe as-is using the sauté function on the Instant Pot, and then instead of simmering for 30 minutes, melt it on transmission upper pressure for 15 minutes with a quick release last the end. Blend, add your cream, and serve!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
Category: Soups
Method: Stovetop
Cuisine: American
Keywords: homemade tomato soup, tomato soup recipe, tomato soup with bacon, tomato soup, grilled cheese
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