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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I love minestrone with tortellinis!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My ultra favorite soup is broccoli soup.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love Chinese wonton soup – if you don’t know what it is, it has dumplings filled with seasoned ground pork and shrimp in a flavorful broth. It’s so delicious!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Chicken Rice Soup
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Boil chicken (cooked or raw) in water. Add chopped onions. Cook until meat falls apart. Add a few handfulls of uncooked rice and some dried parlsey. (You may need to add water as the rice absorbs some of it.) Cook until the rice has come apart on the ends and looks kind of like a star. Add salt/pepper as desired during cooking, can also add poultry seasoning.
Eat and drool! Use napkins for the drool!
One of my very favorites is a split pea soup that cooks in the crockpot – dried peas with leaks and broth and some other yumminess that evades me right now….need to look it up!!!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Love these posts…I enjoy green pea soup with chopped ham added at the end of cooking. Great comfort soup
Please log in or create a free account to comment.That is also a favorite.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My all time favorite soup is French Onion. Yum !! A very special way to serve it is to flambé it at the dinner table. Your guests will feel like they are dining in a gourmet restaurant and it is so easy to do !!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is potato soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.One of my favorite soups is Curried Butternut Squash soup. It’s AMAZING and you blend it like this tomato soup of yours. A Blendtec would make it all so much easier!! I would love to win.
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Please log in or create a free account to comment.Definitely going to try this soup, thank you for sharing this recipe.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.We have Broccoli Cheese Soup pretty often. I love nutritious soups in the wintertime.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Easy Lentil Soup
1 C Lentils washed and stones removed
4 C Water
1 Chicken Bouillon Cube
1 C Diced Ham
1 Sm Onion Diced
Place all in crockpot and cook 8 hrs on high
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Soup is the best, especially this time of year. My favorite was mentioned by others…spicy sausage/potato/kale (Olive Garden knockoff). But I love most home made soup. An old favorite my mom made when I was a kid is yummy and super easy! Thinly cut up some pork chops, and cook them in the bottom of a stew pot w a little oil. Season with salt and pepper and add some soy sauce and sugar, then add sliced up napa cabbage to the pot and cover. The cabbage cooks down and makes a yummy soup. We used to eat the soup with rice. Even my kids love it!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is vegetarian vegetable soup. I love soup! I don’t think there is one I don’t really love.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I absolutely love French Onion and the other is Tomato Basil! I never made it before, so I can’t wait to try it!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.The only soup i love more than Tomato Basil is Tomato Bisque! Love, Love, Love!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Potato leek soup is wonderful!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite soup is Peertrainer Cleanse Soup. I use all frozen veggies to make it cheap and easy and I add the optional spinach for even better nutrition. To make it even heartier, I add 1/2 cup of quinoa. It’s so yummy it’s hard to believe it’s so healthy! ;0) http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=2237891
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My favorite easy soup is tortellini with spinach. My favorite blended soup is a butternut squash soup with a touch of brown sugar and a hint of curry. My Vitamix died. I need a Blendtec!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.We love loaded baked potato soup!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love a modified cream of mushroom soup…add to a can of condensed c.o.m. soup fresh mushrooms and heavy cream…yum!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Our favorite is potato and leek soup — my onion-loving husband likes the milder taste from the leeks in this soup
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love just about anything soup, especially in the fall. I guess my ultimate favorite is potato soup with sausage and lots of pepper. It reminds me of my childhood.
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2 ONIONS
Please log in or create a free account to comment.2 CUBES MARGARINE
2 CUPS OF COOKED EITHER – POTATOES, BROCALLI, CLAMS
SAUTE THE POTATOES OR CLAMS ECT WITH THE ONIONS IN THE MARGARINE
HEAT IN PAN
1/2 LB VELVEETA CHEESE
2 CANS CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP
2 CUPS MILK
ADD IN THE ONIONS AND POTATOES
ADD CORN OR OTHER COMBO OF THINGS YOU LIKE