Recipe

The Worlds Best Tomato Basil Soup Recipe

	Onegypsy / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago This soup goes together in minutes, delicious! Good luck having leftovers with this. Prep:510m Cook:10m Servings:4	Onegypsy
	tomato cream sherry basil

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Ingredients

8 tablespoons melted butter

1 medium onion, diced

1 46-ounce bottle or can tomato juice

2 14 ounce cans diced tomatoes

1 to 3 tablespoons vegetable or chicken soup base (sold in jars)

3 to 6 tablespoons sugar

Pinch of salt

Black Pepper

1 cup cooking sherry

1 1/2 cups heavy cream

chopped fresh parsley (or dried if that is all you have)

chopped fresh basil (I use some dried while it cooks as well)

Directions

Melt the butter in a large saucepan or dutch oven.

Add the onions and saute until translucent.

Dump in two 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes.

Now, get out your potato masher, and squish those babies even more. We like the soup chunky, if you don't feel free to get out your hand blender and puree.

Pour in a 46 oz. bottle of tomato juice, the best you can lay your hands on. Add the sugar to taste, very important, if you don't, your soup will be acidy. Add the soup base, salt, pepper and dried parsley and basil, if you are using them.

Heat on medium JUST until it starts to bubble.

Add in the cooking sherry and heavy cream. Stir til smooth, add the fresh basil, and enjoy!

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Comments

suestonebender 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Ooo! One of my favourite comfort foods. I cannot wait to try this.

Add this to the group, bella! My mouth is watering ...

baron_grayson 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I'm looking forward to trying this...and I like that option of sending this recipe to my phone. Makes for much easier shopping. I always forget wha to buy when I'm out....~furrows brow~

onegypsy 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Fair warning, I have screwed myself forever out of the simplicity of canned tomato soup... my kids love this. In all fairness though, this is almost as quick as that canned stuff, and the ingredients easy enough to have on hand. I am fighting with my cat over a basil plant, in the hopes of having fresh basil all the time, she however, seems to think it is her snack.

cookinggood 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Hi onegypsy, I've been looking for a great Tomato Basil soup recipe. This one looks great.
Thanks for the post.
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baron_grayson 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Now I need to learn how to make this from fresh tomatoes. If I don't kill my plant I should be rolling in them this summer...

onegypsy 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I would think... dip the tomatoes in hot water then cold, peel, dice.... and saute with the onions..then use more tomato juice if need be? I am so envisioning a deep purple tomato soup... can't you just see it?
I love posting comments, I always get a lil extra thrill hitting the 'submit' button.

pascale 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Onegypsy, your soup sounds fantastic. I've been concocting a bunch of soups lately and will have to try this one soon.

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