Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, creamy tomato basil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cooked tomatoes and tomato juice are pureed with fresh basil leaves in this soup thickened with heavy cream. Reviews for: Photos of Rich and Creamy Tomato Basil Soup. This creamy Tomato Basil Soup is restaurant-quality DELICIOUS and it's loaded with hidden vegetables.
Creamy Tomato Basil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Creamy Tomato Basil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook creamy tomato basil soup using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Tomato Basil Soup:
- Get 2 tbs butter
- Take 1 tsp olive oil
- Get 1 medium onion - chopped
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic - crushed
- Make ready 2 (14.5 oz) cans whole tomatoes - drained
- Get 6 cups tomato juice
- Prepare 4-6 tbs granulated sugar
- Make ready 2 tsp chicken soup base (or 2 cubes bullion)
- Take 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Take to taste sea salt
- Make ready 1 cup evaporated milk
- Get 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
- Prepare Optional garnishes (per bowl)
- Make ready 1 tsp chiffonade of fresh basil
- Take 1 tsp chopped fresh parsley
- Make ready 3-4 seasoned croutons
- Take 2 tsp shredded mozzarella or parmesan
- Make ready couple dashes Tabasco sauce
- Prepare drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare pinch cayenne powder or smoked paprika
I have been blogging at Modern Honey for almost two years. In some ways, it feels like it flew by and in other ways, it feels like a lifetime. It depends on the day. 🙂 For the past two. He made this delicious creamy tomato basil soup with parmesan that I would eat by the bowl full.
Instructions to make Creamy Tomato Basil Soup:
- Melt butter with olive oil in a 3 to 4 quart stock pot over medium heat. Add onions and garlic. Sautee until onions are translucent. About 5 - 7 minutes.
- Transfer onion and garlic to blender. Add drained cans of whole tomatoes. Cover and pulse until you have a coarse puree. Note: You may want to vent the lid slightly so steam doesn't pop the lid off.
- Transfer puree back to stockpot over medium high heat. Add tomato juice, soup base and 3 tbs of the sugar. Taste and add up to 1 more tbs sugar at this time. Note: The sugar is used to help cut the acidity of the tomatoes. The acidity of tomatoes can vary from batch to batch so always start low when adding the sugar.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer uncovered for 20 - 25 minutes to reduce slightly (about the consistency of a thin gravy). Taste soup after it has reduced. Add pepper, salt to taste, and up to 2 tbs more sugar as needed/desired (I normally use the full 6 tbs).
- Reduce heat to low. Once soup has stopped bubbling stir in evaporated milk until well incorporated. Then stir in chopped basil. Cover and let sit about 5 minutes for flavors to blend.
- Dish up and garnish with any combination of suggested garnishes above.
- Alternate version: For a smoother consistency, before adding evaporated milk carefully run soup through a fine mesh sieve to remove all the solids. Return to pot, then add evaporated milk and basil as in step 5.
To keep costs low he didn't put parmesan cheese in the soup, but when he served it to me, he would sprinkle a generous serving of parmesan cheese on top, then wink and tell me not to tell the owners. What you'll need to make Chilled Creamy Tomato Basil Soup. You could definitely make this soup with fresh tomatoes since they're in season but I cheat and use Pomi boxed tomatoes. They're all natural and don't contain citric acid or additives like the canned variety; they also don't need to cook. Ok, so I know today is Valentines Day and all, so I feel like I need to say HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!
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