Creamy Tomato & Basil Soup
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Recipe: #40058
January 25, 2023
Categories: Soups and Stews, Fruit, Tomato, Vegetables, Onions, Italian, Budget-Friendly, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Birthday, Easter, Entertaining, Father's Day, Ladies Luncheon, Mother's Day, Romantic Dinner, Summer, Sunday Dinner, Winter, Weeknight Meals, Stove Top, Heart Healthy, Vegetarian, Herbs, Spring 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."
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 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 & Variations
No special items needed.