Tomato Soup
Posted on: January 24, 2021. Updated on: July 12, 2023.
by Carolina Gelen
An easy, quick and absolutely delicious tomato soup recipe, perfect for the cold winter days. You can serve this for lunch or dinner, with a buttered toast or a grilled cheese sandwich.
Tomato Soup
Ingredients
- 500-700 grams cherry tomatoes
- 1 head of garlic (, cut into 2)
- 1 yellow onion (, roughly chopped)
- 1 red chile (, optional)
- olive oil
- fresh thyme and basil
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup full fat canned coconut milk or heavy cream
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup vegetable stock (, depending on the consistency you want)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 250°C or 480°F.
- Drizzle some oil onto a baking pan, add in the yellow onion, head of garlic (cut side down), fresh basil and thyme, red chile, cherry tomatoes, more olive oil on top, a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Bake everything until the tomatoes are slightly charred for 25 to 35 minutes.
- Add the coconut milk, vegetable stock and all the baked ingredients, besides the thyme, in a blender and blend everything until smooth, for 3-5 minutes. Serve with a piece of toast or a grilled cheese sandwich.
The best tomato soup ever.
Just saw this on GMA and I have a question! After roasting the head of garlic (I’m assuming unpeeled?) Do you put those “skins” right into the blender with everything else? I guess you cut the root bottom off beforehand?
No, you squeeze the garlic out and blend without the skins
I’m a roasted garlic fanatic. I will just eat roasted garlic. They need to stay inside their skins when they’re being roasted because it’s little mini cooking vessels this way. They stay nice and moist
For the tomato soup do you puree everything, including the garlic in its skin?
This soup sounds delicious, what do you do with the garlic, remove the cloves from the half bulbs or what?
Gorgeously simple! I’ve never cooked with split garlic. Great idea!
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Beautiful recipe!!! What did you use for the topping of the tomato soup in the picture? Looks beautiful and delicious!!!
What do you have on top. The recipe ends with blending everything together. It looks so good the way its presented.
Do we put in the garlic skin too?
Haven’t tried yet…. what’s one to do if she doesn’t have fresh basil or thyme, alas- there is only a jar of Herbes de Provence…
Best tomato soup ever! The whole fam loves it! Delicious and so easy to make!
This looks amazing! And that dish is so cute. Would you mind sharing where you got that?
It’s a thrifted one 🙂
I tried to give this 5 stars, but I think it messed up and only gave 4. This soup is literally the best ever.
How/what did you do/use for the green and white to garnish your soup? Is it blended basil? Spinach? For the white is it the coconut milk? Mahalo! 🤗
The green is pesto and a little extra olive oil, and the white stuff is coconut milk (heavy cream will work too) 🙂
How many servings is this for?
About two generous ones 🙂
How many servings does this make?
It makes about two generous servings
Just made this for dinner after seeing your post on Instagram & it was delicious! Adding the pesto on top was a solid choice, too.
So happy to hear that 🙂
My house smelled amazing! What a great dish!!!
This is a remarkable recipe. I used all my last of season small tomatoes from the garden with fresh basil and thyme. The tomatoes steamed more than charred, probably a bit crowded but still! I didn’t even add the cream! It’s so good and flavorful without anything else added. Ate it with my last tomato/bacon sandwich of summer. Thank you!
I am so happy you liked it 🙂
How did you make the pesto and cream look fancy in the end? Love the aesthetics!
I drizzled them in a circle on top, then went in with a skewer and swirled them around. Definitely easier than it looks 🙂
AMAZING & SIMPLE! Easy preparation & very little cleanup.
Love this soup! Really smooth and jummy and not to acidic, amazing.
Carolina,
Unsure if you’ll see this, but I want you to know this is my favorite recipe of yours! I’m eating it as I type. This soup is my go-to “easy” meal when I need something quick, comforting, and nourishing. Thank you for sharing your talents with us <3
Awwwww that makes me so happy to hear that!