Creamy Tomato & Basil Soup
Created by Tisme on January 25, 2023
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 1.15m
- Recipe #40058
Ingredients
- 1,2 kilograms plum tomatoes (2 and 3/4 lb )
- 1 onion
- 2 potato, medium size
- 1 carrot
- 1 celery stalk
- 50 grams butter (2oz or 1/4 cup)
- 1 liter stock (1 and 3/4 pints or 1 quart)
- 300 milliliters cream, whipping (1/2 pint or 1 and 1/4 cups)
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 12 basil leaves, fresh, chopped
- Extra basil, chopped for garnish
How to Make
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Step 1: To prepare the vegetables;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Step 5: Whip the remaining cream and stir in the chopped basil.
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Step 6: Serve the soup in individual bowls topped with the basil cream.
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Step 7: Sprinkle the garnish basil over the cream and serve.
Nutritional Facts
- 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