By: Chef Laura Bonicelli
Tomato Basil Soup is one of my favorite late-summer comfort food dishes. I reserve it for those days when there’s a hint of coolness in the mornings. Buy your tomatoes and basil at your favorite Farmers Market!
About Tomato Basil Soup
I don’t peel tomatoes often. It’s an extra step that I usually try to avoid. In this case, if you want a smooth tomato basil soup without tomato skins, the tomatoes need to be peeled. It’s simple. Drop the tomatoes in boiling water. Let the skins split; this takes about 30 seconds. Remove the tomatoes to a bowl of cold water and pull off the peels.
In researching other Tomato Basil Soup recipes, I found many seeding the tomatoes. I think that a good portion of the tomato’s flavor is in the gel surrounding the seeds. So, that all stays for this soup. They are a mess to chop up, so I have a procedure for that. First, put a cutting board on top of a bowl or container, partially covering the top. Second, chop a tomato. Third, slide the tomato, and the juices, into the container.
You’ll notice that there are only a few ingredients in this soup. The hero is the tomatoes. The stock is essential, providing a background for the flavorful tomatoes once cooked and pureed. The red onion and garlic sauteed in the olive oil give it a beautiful flavor base. If you don’t have red onion, you can use yellow onion, but it will change the soup’s flavor.
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Step by Step Instructions
Fresh Tomato Basil Soup
Equipment
- immersion blends
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups chopped red onion
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 4 pounds ripe tomatoes peeled, stemmed, and chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon double-concentrated tomato paste
- 1/3 cup chopped basil leaves
- 3 cups chicken stock -- preferably homemade
- 1 tablespoon Kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
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- pesto and croutons
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pan over medium-low heat. Add the onions and carrots and saute' until soft and transparent, about 10 minutes. Do not brown. Stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute.
- Add the tomatoes, sugar, tomato paste, basil, chicken stock, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil and lower heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 40 minutes.
- Add cream to the soup.
- Blend soup with an immersion blender until smooth. Serve with a dollop of pesto and croutons.
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