Tomato Soup Recipe

Tomato soup is one of the easiest recipes to make. It’s prepared by cooking these ingredients: butter, onions, carrots, flour, tomato puree, stock, bouquet garni, salt, bread, and pepper. Here is the step-by-step tomato soup recipe.

Tomato Soup Recipe
bowl of tomato soup
Prep Time 15 min
Cook Time 60 min
Serving 8
Difficulty Easy

How to make tomato soup

Ingredients

  • 300g- Tomato purée
  • 50g- Bacon trimmings
  • 100g- Flour
  • 100g- Butter
  • 2- Bouquet garni
  • 2.5ltrs- Stock
  • 200g- Carrot (mirepoix)
  • 200g- Onion
  • Salt, pepper to taste
  • 100g- butter
  • 2 slices- bread

Directions

1. Heat the butter in a heavy-bottomed pan.
2. Add the bacon, onion and carrot and brown lightly.
3. Mix in the flour and cook to a sandy texture.
4. Remove from the heat, mix in the tomato purée.
5. Return to the heat and gradually add the hot stock.
6. Stir to the boil. Add the bouquet garni, season lightly. Simmer for approximately 45minutes.
7. Remove the bouquet garni and mirepoix then pass firmly through a sieve, and a conical strainer.
8. Return to a clean pan, correct the seasoning and consistency. Bring to the boil.
9. Serve hot with toasted croutons separately