When it comes to comfort food, it’s hard to beat a bowl of tomato soup. This simple recipe features canned tomatoes, fresh vegetables and simple seasonings.
Play around with the seasonings and toppings—fresh herbs, homemade croutons and crumbled bacon are all delicious places to start. Learn how to make tomato soup from scratch and you’ll never go back to the store-bought stuff!
Tomato Soup Ingredients
- Olive oil and butter: Butter adds a ton of flavor. The oil helps increase the smoke point for sauteing vegetables. Use regular olive oil in this recipe; save the more delicate extra virgin olive oil for flavor-forward non-cooked recipes. For a vegan soup, sub more olive oil for the butter.
- Red pepper flakes: Crushed red pepper adds heat to the soup.
- Vegetables: Carrots and onions add complex savory flavors.
- Tomatoes: This recipe calls for canned whole peeled tomatoes.
- Chicken stock: Use low-sodium chicken broth to control the amount of salt in the finished soup. For a vegetarian soup, simply substitute vegetable broth.
- Tomato paste: Tomato paste helps deepen the tomato flavor in the soup.
- Sugar: A touch of sugar adds a little sweetness to counterbalance the acidity in the tomatoes.
- Seasonings: Enhance the soup’s flavor with garlic, basil, salt and pepper.
- Heavy whipping cream: For an ultra-creamy tomato soup, don’t skip the heavy cream. To make vegan tomato soup, substitute full-fat unsweetened coconut milk. (Don’t worry, you won’t taste the coconut.)
- Toppings: Add thinly sliced fresh basil leaves and grated Parmesan cheese to each bowl.
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