Tomato Soup Goodness

On By mrsjschonIn Food
Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness

A few years ago I discovered homemade tomato soup. Let’s just say that we have never bought another can of Campbell’s since. This soup is so good and so simple. It’s so simple that even my nine-year-old daughter can make it with a little supervision and help. It really doesn’t take much longer than opening a can, emptying it, and adding milk or water to it, but the taste is about one hundred times better. Plus as an added bonus, I know what’s in this soup – every ingredient is pronouncable and no MSG. So here is how we do it.

 
First, you open a large can of tomatoe pieces. For us that is one of the jars we canned last summer. You dump it in your soup pot and mash the tomatoes up. We use a stick blender, but anything that mashes them will work. Sometimes there is still some little chunks, but that’s okay.

 

Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness
My lovely assistant
Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness
Blended tomatoes
Then we add chicken stock. Mine is usually frozen because I forget to  take it out in time, but it melts.  Next  we add water, a small can of tomato paste, honey, parsley and dill weed.
 
Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness
Frozen chicken stock
Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness
Adding honey
Now you can add milk with flour mixed in to thicken the soup or as we did today just cream. I left out the flour because I was keeping this THM diet-friendly. Next comes butter and salt. As soon as it’s all heated through you’re ready. Like I said simple, simple, simple. When you taste it though, it is so delicious you will never want to buy canned tomato soup again.

Update: I have since made this using almond flour and cream to make it an “S” for the THM diet. I think it actually tasted and had better texture than when I make it with regular flour.

 
Healthy Simplicity: tomato soup goodness
Lovely, delicious goodness
 
 
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5 thoughts on “Tomato Soup Goodness”

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  2. Delicious! Summer will be ending soon and I’ll be serving more soups. Hoping to get several jars of tomatoes canned before then, making it easy to fix this up for my family when the days get cool. Thank you for the recipe!

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  3. I’m so glad I found this recipe! My husband LOVES tomato soup {not me!} & this is easy, so even I can make it. I plan on surprising him on evening when he comes home from work with homemade tomato soup! Yipee! Thanks! What an adorable assistant by the way =-)

    Have a fabulous week!
    -Krista

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