These are the ingredients -- plus a tablespoon of flour.
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil (or butter)
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 small carrot chopped -- put the oil, onion and carrot in your cooking pot on medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes
- 1 Tablespoon flour -- add to the pot, cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring frequently, then --
- ADD:
- 1 14 ounce can of crushed tomatoes (I used diced) or 1 pound of fresh tomatoes
- 1 cup chicken broth (or vegetable broth)
- 1/4 teaspoon basil
- 1/4 teaspoon thyme
- 1 small bay leaf and
- salt and pepper - bring this all to a boil, reduce heat, cover, simmer for 15 minutes, stirring frequently
- Remove Bay Leaf!!!!
Turn off the heat, remove from heat, and blend the mixture. Add 1/2 to 1 cup of half and half or milk, salt and pepper. Do not return to a boil after this point. The milk will curdle if you do. I left the soup a little bit chunky because I like chunks of stuff in my soup.
I made a couple of toasted cheese sandwiches, following the directions in the earlier post, while the soup was simmering. Sorry, I didn't have any white bread. Fresh tomatoes instead of canned and milk instead of half and half would make it an even better entry for National Start! Eating Healthy day, but any day with an exclamation point in the middle is not deserving of being taken too seriously. The soup was good. The recipe made about 3 bowlsful of soup of the size in the photo.
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I had a very similar lunch at work today although, sadly, my tomato soup was not home made. It was the Cambell's/V8 variety which is at least way better than that canned stuff.
http://www.campbellsv8soup.com/
Emily,
I checked out the link, and the tomato herb soup looked very good. I'll have to try it.
The butternut squash and sweet red pepper varieties are also quite good. They've become a lunch staple since the weather got all cold and grey.
I bet you could use stewed tomatoes instead of the diced and still have a hearty bowl of goodness. I often have tomato soup for lunch, but always from a can, along with egg salad sammiches (with sweet relish). I'm going to try this soon. TT
I would think it would be good with stewed tomatoes as well. I had a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes with garlic and olive oil that I thought about using -- probably also good.
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