Creamy Tomato & Basil Soup
Recipe: #40058
January 25, 2023
Categories: Tomato, Onions, Italian, Birthday, Easter, Fathers Day Mothers Day, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Heart Healthy, Vegetarian, Herbs, more
"I love this Italian soup. I am posting the recipe from an old Italian cookbook I have. I use a vegetarian G/F chicken stock, but you can use whatever stock you prefer."
Original is 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (510.3 g)
- Calories 499.1
- Total Fat - 34.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 18.8 g
- Cholesterol - 414.3 mg
- Sodium - 567.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 30.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4 g
- Sugars - 5.2 g
- Protein - 18.6 g
- Calcium - 128.7 mg
- Iron - 3.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 30.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
To prepare the vegetables;
Step 2
Peel the tomato first if using fresh ~ then chop the tomatoes, finely chop the onion, finely dice the potatoes, finely dice the carrot and celery.
Step 3
Melt the butter in a large pan over a low heat, add all the vegetables at once and simmer for a few minutes. Cover with the stock and cook very gently for about an hour.
Step 4
Sieve or blend the soup and return it to the heat. Add half of the cream, a good pinch of the sugar and season to taste ~ stirring until just before boiling, then remove from the heat.
Step 5
Whip the remaining cream and stir in the chopped basil.
Step 6
Serve the soup in individual bowls topped with the basil cream.
Step 7
Sprinkle the garnish basil over the cream and serve.
Tips
No special items needed.
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