homemade tomato soup 🍅

If you had a garden with lots of tomatoes this summer, this is the recipe you need!

I’ve wanted to make homemade from scratch tomato soup like this for a while now, this was our last batch of tomatoes from the garden this year so I decided I would go ahead and make it!

I am so glad I did because this is my new favorite thing 🥰😋

Ingredients I used

- about 2-3 tbs butter

- 2-3 tbs flour

- 1/2 quart chicken broth

- two sheet pans of halved tomatoes

- two small yellow onions

- bulb of garlic ( i didn’t have much fresh garlic so i roasted what i had, two cloves, and used refrigerated minced garlic for the rest)

- 1/2 cup heavy cream

- 1 can tomato paste

- tsp red wine vinegar ( optional )

- fresh basil from the garden ( to taste)

- salt ( a lot )

- tsp onion powder

- tsp Italian seasoning

how I made it:

- wash and 1/2 your tomatoes, quarter your onions and half the bulb of garlic. add to a baking pan and drizzle with olive oil.

- bake at 450° until roasted and soft

- add into a blender with some fresh basil

- in the pot or dutch oven, stated by making a roux with the butter and flour then added in the broth

- add in your blended tomato mixture

- add your heavy cream and some salt

- whisk in the tomato paste and add the other seasoning and vinegar

- adjust to taste

I recommend topping with shredded mozzarella and fresh basil and eating it with a grilled cheese 😊

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