Tomato Soup with Fresh Tomatoes… in a Blender!
The tomatoes have already come and gone around these parts, but fortunately you don’t need garden fresh tomatoes to make this delicious, nutritious, and super easy blender soup! It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was up to my eyeballs in tomatoes from my garden, but those days are a fond memory now, with snow on the ground.
The good news is that my bumper crop of tomatoes inspired me to find tomato recipes, and my search led me to this incredibly easy and delicious blender recipe for fresh tomato soup. Grocery store tomatoes work just fine for this, since roasting them gives them a boost of flavor.
This soup could not be simpler to put together. Roasted tomatoes, onions, and garlic are blended with fresh basil into the most luxurious and fresh-tasting tomato soup you’ve ever tasted. Even the pickiest of eaters will fall in love! :-)
Easy Tomato Soup with Fresh Tomatoes (Blender Recipe)
Ingredients:
- 8-10 tomatoes, halved (I used a dozen or so because some of mine were pretty small)
- 2 medium onions, quartered
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2-3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/3 cup sliced fresh basil
- salt and pepper, to taste
Directions:
Place the halved tomatoes, quartered onions, and garlic cloves into a large bowl and add the oil. Season well with salt and pepper, and stir well to coat.
Pour the oiled and seasoned vegetables onto a baking tray, and roast at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, remove the tray from the oven and admire how lovely your roasted veggies look while they cool for a few minutes. ;-)
Place the veggies into your blender, along with the sliced basil.
If you have a Blendtec blender, you’ll definitely want to use the “soup” function, which is the button on the very right under the power button. Not only does the soup function create the perfect silky smooth texture, it also heats the soup as well! Since the vegetables are still warm from the oven, the soup comes out at the perfect temperature once it’s done blending!
If you don’t have a soup setting on your blender, just pour the mixture into a pot and heat it over the stove. You can also use an immersion blender and smooth the soup out right in the pot!
Once the soup is blended, add salt and pepper to taste. If your soup is too thick, you can add a little vegetable broth or water to thin it out a bit. Serve with some crusty bread or a nice grilled cheese sandwich, and enjoy! :-)
Storing Leftover Tomato Soup
You can store leftover soup in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week. You can freeze any leftovers too — it’s wonderful to have soup in the freezer for those hectic days when you get home late and tired!
To freeze the soup, let it cool completely, then freeze it in an airtight container for up to three months. To serve, thaw the soup in the fridge overnight and reheat on the stove. You can also freeze the soup in individual servings and use the microwave to thaw and reheat them.
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Easy Blender Tomato-Basil Soup
Ingredients
- 8-10 tomatoes halved
- 2 medium onions quartered
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2-3 Tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- ⅓ cup fresh basil sliced
Instructions
- Place halved tomatoes, quartered onions, and garlic cloves in a large bowl, then drizzle with oil and season liberally with salt and pepper. Stir well to coat.
- Empty the bowl onto a baking sheet and roast at 400°F for 30 minutes.
- Remove baking sheet from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Place roasted vegetables in blender along with sliced basil and blend until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Warm the soup further on your stovetop, if necessary, then serve.
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Do you have a favorite tomato recipe?
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Please log in or create a free account to comment.My current favorite is 40-glove garlic soup! You roast the garlic, saute the onions, add chicken broth and blend it up well. My poor blender wasn’t really made to do soup, though, and it tends to explode if you put too much hot liquid in it. I’ve learned to strain out the onions and garlic that needs to be blended, leaving most of the liquid in the pan. That mostly works, but it sounds like a Blendtec blender is what I need!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love soup, but my current favorite is Tomato, Roasted Red Pepper, Smoked Gouda Cheese Bisque. It is close to Chili season, and I love that too.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I would like to make a spicy squash soup for the fall time.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I would love making smoothies and soups! I’d love to have a Blentec! Thanks for doing the giveaway.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My Mother has a Blendtec and uses it all the time. I would use it to make a smoothie every morning.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love tomatoes!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is homemade chicken noodle soup. It started with my mom who, instead of rolling the noodles would give each of us five kids a dough ball and we would all gather around the pot and pinch pieces of dough off to make the noodles. I carried the tradition on with my own four children and am now looking forward to doing it with my grandchildren.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.This soup sounds delicious and so easy. I’m going to try it soon.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My all time favorite soup is super easy, delicious, and Weight Watcher friendly! The best part, though, is that I can put in whatever I have on hand and it always tastes wonderful.
The basic recipe for my Delicious vegetable Soup calls for a container of organic broth – I find beef to be best, but feel free to use veggie or chicken, a can of Italian tomatoes, 2 Tbsp tomato paste,cabbage, zucchini, peas, green beans, carrots, celery, an onion, a clove or two of garlic. Quantities may vary and if you need more liquid, you may add water or even a second can of tomatoes. You may roast the veggies as in the tomato Basil soup recipe above, or saute the veggies in extra virgin olive oil first, or even dump it all in at once. No matter how I do it, it’s always great, I always make a huge pot full, which lasts a week, plus allows me to freeze 2 or 3 quarts. Sprinkled with grated parmigiana reggiano makes a heavenly meal.
You can go heavy on zucchini in summer, or heavy on carrot Choices are endless!and parsnip in winter.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love potato soup, tomato, clam chowder and chicken escarole soup.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.This soup looks amazing and I am hungry for lunch already! My favorite soup to make is usually loaded baked potato–total comfort soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Yum! I think this will be my new favorite soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is gazpacho.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love my grandma’s creamy chicken soup with homemade noodles.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.one of my favorites is pumpkin soup
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup recipe is miso soup–quick and easy and fantastic on a cold day or a day when I have a cold.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I would love to make Tomato Basil soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.chili, red or white! then good oldfashioned chicken noodle, or creamy cheddar chowder!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Our favorite soup is homemade vegetable soup – using fresh vegetables from the garden!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favourite soup is one by the late Ken Kostick – Chilled Pineapple and Coconut Soup from his Ken’s Soup Crazy cookbook.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Potato soup for sure, close second is tomato
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My mother-in-law makes the best vegetable beef soup.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Favorite soup is chicken corn souo
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love potato soup.
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