Tomato soup - simple and savory

Name: Tomato soup - simple and savory
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 nice plump tomatoes; 3/4 cup small diced celery with some of the leaves; 3/4 cup small diced onion; 3 clove s of fresh garlic minced; 1 tsp olive oil; 1/2 cup marsala/red cooking wine; 1/2 tsp salt or to taste; 1/2 tsp white pepper/pepper; 1 Sugar to taste if desired; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 cup cream, optional; 2 or 3 fresh basil leaves julienned

Meagan Starr @cook_2902628

Make it how you like, creamy or traditional :)

Meagan Starr @cook_2902628

Make it how you like, creamy or traditional :)

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Ingredients

10 mins

4 servings

8nice plump tomatoes
3/4 cupsmall diced celery with some of the leaves
3/4 cupsmall diced onion
3 cloves of fresh garlic minced
1 tspolive oil
1/2 cupmarsala/red cooking wine
1/2 tspsalt or to taste
1/2 tspwhite pepper/pepper
1Sugar to taste if desired
1/2 tspbaking soda
1/2 cupcream, optional
2or 3 fresh basil leaves julienned

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Steps

10 mins

1

Clean tomatoes and cut into quarters and puree in blender, leave in blender
2

Meanwhile, heat olive oil in saucepan on low-med heat, saute celary and onions then add the garlic.
3

If you want your soup chunky add tomato puree to saucepan. If you want smooth soup add saute mixture to blender and puree all together to desired texture
4

Pour puree into saucepan, rinse blender with a bit of water and add to saucepan. Add red wine and simmer for 10 min or so
5

Add salt and pepper to taste
6

If you desire it creamy, remove from heat, stir in the baking soda (it will foam a bit) then slowly add the cream and stir.
7

Garnish with basil and ENJOY!

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Meagan Starr @cook_2902628

on September 19, 2013 08:37

I'm a proud, thankful Wife and Mom of our little Abigail & baby boy Zedekiah. I love to cook for my family and be creative! I can't just follow a recipe exactly, I have to put my own spin on it.