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?
Tomato soup and smoothies. My kids adore both so this blender would get lots of use! I have been wanting one so so bad!!!!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.This is such a great recipe. I must try it!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love Taco Soup and Tomato Bisque. YUM.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite is broccoli soup.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My two favorite soups are: creamy chicken tortilla soup and Christmas soup (kielbasa, kale, potatoes and kidney beans). Hard to pick just one. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Love to make Zuppa Toscona! A bootleg recipe for soup from Olive Garden!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite is Moroccan lamb with lentils soup and roasted tomato and basil is second on MY list but top of the grandchildren’s list
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Tortilla soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I looove Broccoli soup, it’s the one soup that made my son love broccoli in the first place
Also Tomato soup and I’ll love to try this recipe
question: does people outside of US can participate?? I would love to win but I don’t live there
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love cream of broccoli soup, but tortilla soup and vegetable beef is right up there as well.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soups are Split Pea and Potato!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.That tomato soup looks gorgeous! A favourite of mine is one from the amazing catering team at a former work place of mine: Barry’s Sweet Potato Korma Soup. Thick, slightly sweet, subtly spiced and totally satisfying. Would love to be able to recreate it with this blender! *fingers crossed!!*
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Vegetable turkey. Mmm. With fresh bread or biscuits.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is Shrimp Vegetable Bisque that I found in an old Better Homes And Gardens magazine over 30 years ago. I have made many changes to the recipe through the years and adapted it somewhat for more contemporary palates. It is only improved with the changes and remains my family’s most requested soup, especially during the holidays. I would love a Blendtec Blender.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Kathleen O of Centennial, Colorado
My favorite soups to make are chicken vegetable and red lentil with dried apricots. The latter is one I depend on when I’m feeding vegetarian friends.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My ‘go to’ soup for cold weather is Chicken Tortilla Soup.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.It is yummy. And only takes about an hour start to finish.
Lots of chicken, beans, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice added at the very end and then serve over tortilla chips and sharp cheddar cheese. Never get tired of soup.
I’d love to make the potato soup recipe from the newest Moosewood cookbook. It’s fantastic!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup to make is tortilla soup with chicken
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup to make is ham and white bean soup. I buy the diced ham at the store and add two pounds of white beans to my crockpot with some chicken boullion flavoring and some red pepper spice and some salt and pepper along with sliced carrots and enough water to fill my crockpot, let it cook on high until the beans are soft (usually 5 hours). Then I switch it over to warm until it’s dinnertime.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I do make tomato basil soup in a regular blender, but it doesn’t turn out creamy. I have to strain it to remove the seeds. If I were to have a Blendtec, I would definitely like to use it to make tomato basil soup. Winning it would be a dream come true.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Sausage lentil stew from Best Bytes
http://www.budgetbytes.com/2010/10/lentil-sausage-stew/
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I would love to make a tomato/zucchini soup – had some in England and it was fabulous!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is broccoli and cheddar.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.We love homemade chicken noodle and clam chowder around here. If I make the soup, my husband automatically makes the corn bread. Win, win!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favourite has to be my grandmother’s chicken noodle soup. I’m going to make some tomorrow in fact. :)
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