Cream of tomato soup is a favorite in our house… we can’t eat grilled cheese sandwiches without it! Even my eighteen month old enjoys dipping his sandwich quarters in his soup, and my almost six year old acts very disappointed if we have his favorite sandwiches without the soup. And lately, there’s been a lot of disappointment, because I read the ingredients on the cans of tomato soup at the store and found that they contain HFCS, which is something we’d try to avoid even if I weren’t allergic to corn.
A couple weeks ago, I decided to try to make my own tomato soup. I didn’t have any fresh milk, but I did have sweetened condensed milk in the pantry. Since I knew I’d need to sweeten the soup somehow, I thought this might work. It did!
I’ve made this soup twice now, and we enjoyed it both times! The recipe is so so simple and takes just a couple of minutes to make.
Cream of Tomato Soup
In a blender, combine:
1 8 oz can of diced tomatoes
2 T sweetened condensed milk
2 T water
1/2 t salt
1/2 t dried basil
Blend on high for about 30-45 seconds. You just want to get it good and creamy. Heat in a saucepan, then serve!
It must truly be winter. We’re all about the soups today!
Yes, this cold wet weather has me in the mood for warming things like soup! Now, if only we could find some fancy name for it… My husband won’t eat anything with the word Soup in it. hehe
Creamy, juicy, deliciousness?
I’m crazy about basil, so I love that you have that as a featured flavor in your deeeeeelicious soup!
Me too! I grow it every year and I just have to put it in anything with tomatoes.
Have you tried Angela’s recipe for maple glazed carrots with basil? So so so good!
Even my kids like it and they don’t always approve of strong flavors. Those are the best carrots in the world.
Hi Erica,
I love tomato soup, and plan to can some homemade this coming season, but I have a question. WHY should tomato soup be sweet? Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t want my soup sweet. In fact, everything is too sweet now.
I swear to you when I was a kid the first ingredient on a cake mix was flour – not sugar – and muffins and cornbread were BREAD not CAKE. There is too much sweet in everything now and not nearly enough herbs and minerals.
I don’t buy that nonsense about salt being bad for us because the first thing we do for horses and livestock of any kind is make sure they have free choice salt. I bought some really delicious pink sea salt from Swansons and herbal teas and I am enjoying every sip!