creamy tomato soup recipe
Recipes for Creamy Tomato Soup
Soups - the ultimate appetizers invoke only a single reaction and that is 'YUM'. Creamy tomato soup recipe is not at all a tough task, when it comes to delicious soups. You just need a bit of interest and a taste for taste, to prepare that perfect cream of tomato soup.
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 celery ribs, finely chopped
- 4 large fresh Florida tomatoes, peeled, cored, seeded, and chopped
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 cups chicken broth
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh dill weed or 1 teaspoon dried
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- Take a medium-sized saucepan and melt the butter in it.
- Add celery and onion and make a saute over medium heat, for around 5 minutes.
- Keep on stirring so that it does not get brown. Rather do not let it get too brown.
- Stir the tomatoes, add sugar and simmer it after covering it and cook for around 6 - 8 minutes. Cook till they become soft.
- Make a smooth puree out of the vegetables in a food processor.
- Put the puree back again on the saucepan and stir it.
- Heat the soup thoroughly and add seasoning for taste. There you are - you have made creamy tomato soup recipe with fresh tomatoes.
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 2 celery sticks, chopped
- 200 gm carrots, chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 large sprig of fresh thyme
- 750 gm ripe plums or vine-ripened tomatoes, roughly chopped
- ½ tsp sugar
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 200 ml passata
- 500 ml vegetable stock
- 100 ml single cream
- Dry sherry
- Crusty bread and butter, to serve.
- Heat olive oil in a large sauce pan and cook the onion over gentle heat, till it softens but do not allow it to get brown.
- Now add the celery, carrots, garlic, bay leaf and thyme to the onion.
- Cook for around 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, to avoid vegetables from sticking to the base.
- Add the chopped tomatoes and sugar. Follow this by seasoning them properly with salt and pepper.
- Stir in the passata and vegetable stock and cook for a few minutes.
- Reduce the flame, cover the mixture and let it cook for around 30 minutes, till the vegetables become tender.
- Removing the bay leaf and thyme, blend the soup in a food processor.
- In case you want the soup to be really smooth, pass it through a sieve and then comes the cream, splash of sherry and seasoning, as per requirement.
- Pour into bowls and then serve with the bread.
- 2 (29 oz.) cans of diced tomatoes
- 2 stalks of chopped celery
- 2 cloves of minced garlic
- ½ lb. of chopped mushrooms
- 1 finely diced onion
- 1 chopped red bell pepper,
- 1 tbsp. of margarine
- 2 tbsp. of all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. of white sugar
- Beef stock
- ½ tsp. of dried basil
- ½ tsp. of dried rosemary
- ½ tsp. of dried thyme
- 1 (3 oz.) package of cream cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 baked potatoes (depending on the quantity of soup)
- Take a buttered baking dish and put tomatoes in it.
- Add celery, garlic and red pepper and cook for around 25 minutes after covering this mixture.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter on a medium flame and cook mushrooms and onion over medium flame for around 8 minutes.
- To this after it gets cooked, add sugar, beef stock, flour, basil, thyme and rosemary.
- Keep this mixture stirring constantly till it boils and then add baked potatoes, letting it boil again.
- Cover this and let it cook for around 30 minutes and while it cooks, blend the cream cheese in a bender.
- Once it becomes all creamy and yummy, add it to the soup. Before you serve this lip smacking soup piping hot, add salt and pepper.