Easy Tomato Soup (5 Simple Ingredients)

Easy Tomato Soup recipe, aerial view garnished in pot.

Easy Tomato Soup (5 Simple Ingredients)

This Easy Tomato Soup recipe is creamy, delicious, and amazingly quick and effortless to make with just five simple ingredients: tomato purée, cream, basil, garlic salt, and pepper!

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Total Time 10

Servings to 8 servings

Calories 143kcal

Author Samantha Skaggs

Equipment

Medium Pot (3-quart)

Ingredients

2 (24-ounce) jars tomato purée
¾ cup heavy cream
2 Tablespoons dried basil
1 Tablespoon garlic salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Pour the tomato purée into a medium saucepan. Stir in the heavy cream, dried basil, garlic salt, and pepper.
Bring to a simmer and then reduce heat to low, stirring and cooking for 5 to 10 minutes.
Taste and adjust the seasonings to your liking, adding more cream, basil, salt, and/or pepper, if necessary. Serve hot.

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Notes

Tomato purée is sometimes labeled as strained tomatoes or passata. It’s typically sold in a 24-ounce glass jar, but you may only be able to find it in a 28- or 29-ounce can instead. Either will work, as the measurements are close enough that the ingredient amounts in this recipe shouldn’t have to be adjusted, although you can tweak them to taste.
Alternatively, you can make your own tomato purée starting with a can (or cans) of diced, whole, or crushed tomatoes (regular or fire-roasted). Puree directly in the pot using an immersion blender. Or pour the cans into a food processor or blender, puree until smooth, and then transfer to the pot to make the soup.
You can cut the recipe in half (using just one jar of tomato puree) to yield 4 to 6 small servings. This may be ideal if you’re dipping sandwiches into your Easy Tomato Soup rather than enjoying it as an entrée.
Or you can make a single serving of soup by pouring 1 cup tomato purée into a small saucepan and stirring in 2 tablespoons heavy cream, 1 teaspoon dried basil, ½ teaspoon garlic salt, and freshly ground black pepper, to taste. Heat on the stove as directed. Alternatively, you may combine the above ingredients in a microwave safe bowl, cover (to prevent tomato soup splatters!), and place in the microwave instead, heating for 30-increments and stirring in between until heated through.
You may swap out the heavy cream for half-and-half or whole milk if you wish to lighten things up.
Stirring in a pinch of sugar will help to curb the acidity if your tomato puree is too acidic.
Optional garnishes could include freshly grated Parmesan, a fresh basil chiffonade, or crushed red pepper flakes for some heat.

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