Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
From dmajor 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 8
A wonderfully easy creamy soup! It is so delicious and a favorite of all my friends and family! The crisp bacon adds such a great flavor to this soup. It is wonderful for those cold winters nights that will satisfy that cold to the bone chill that winter can bring! Read more OOOOhhh so good! See less
Ingredients
- 6 to 8 large tomatoes, cubed and cooked shopping list
- 1 onion, chopped shopping list
- 5 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 cup chopped celery with leaves shopping list
- 4 cups chicken broth shopping list
- 1 stick butter shopping list
- 1 to 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream shopping list
- cracked black pepper shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
- 1 teaspoon creole spice shopping list
- 4 slices of crisp cooked bacon, crumbled shopping list
- shredded parmesan cheese shopping list
- croutons shopping list
How to make it
- Saute onions, celery, and garlic in butter until tender.
- Place cooked tomatoes in blender, add onion mixture and process in blender until smooth,
- In medium saucepan, bring broth to a boil.
- Add tomatoes, onion mixture and bacon,
- Lower heat to med/low and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Season with creole spice, salt and pepper.
- Stir in heavy cream and continue to cook on low heat for 2 to 3 minutes
- Ladle over croutons and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
This sounds delicious - tomatoes are always in abundance in my garden-great recipe! 5!
lincolntoot
in Freehold loved it
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Hey, Lincoltoot! Send over some of those tomatoes so I can make this...my tomatoes aren't producing this year! Sounds wonderful, Dmajor...worth going out to the farm market!
crabhappychick
in Pittsburgh loved it
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Mmmmmmmmmm, delicious!
elgab89
in Toronto loved it
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