Tomato soup

Easy Three-Ingredient Tomato Soup

My favourite tomato soup recipe! You wouldn’t think that 3 substances — butter, onion, and tomato — can come collectively to make such a velvety and scrumptious tomato soup, but allow me tell you. They can. Jump to the Tomato Soup Recipe or observe our fast recipe video displaying how to make it.

View How We Make Tomato Soup

How To Make The Best 3-Ingredient Tomato Soup From Scratch

This basic homemade tomato soup is rapid, straightforward, and insanely delightful.

The soup is inspired by one of the most popular recipes out there — Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce. Butter, tomatoes, and onion are simmered until slightly thickened. Out comes the onion and the sauce is ready to be spooned more than pasta.

It’s genius and completely scrumptious. We use the exact same three elements in this tomato soup, but include a minor water and mix every thing collectively just ahead of serving.

Generating The Tomato Soup

Here’s how to the ideal (and best) tomato soup :

Mix butter, onion, and tomatoes. Grab a Dutch oven or pot, area it above medium heat and melt the butter. Include half an onion that’s been reduce into massive wedges and a large can of tomatoes.

Add water or broth and simmer. Deliver every thing to a low simmer, add some salt and depart it alone for about 40 minutes. See how creamy it gets? That’s thanks to the butter.

Mix. I find an immersion blender is helpful, but a blender works, as well. Change the soup for seasoning then grab a bowl…and possibly a grilled cheese sandwich? This soup is also remarkable served subsequent to this easy buttery garlic bread.

Tomatoes (canned or fresh), onion, and butter. What the tomato soup appears like after including water (or broth) and simmering.

What Tomatoes Ought to I Use

This tomato soup is excellent with canned tomatoes. I adore utilizing entire peeled tomatoes or crushed tomatoes. By the way, we enjoy San Marzano Tomatoes and are often pleased with tomatoes from Muir Glen. Neither are watery and each taste wonderful.

You can also use fresh tomatoes. You will need to have 10 to twelve whole tomatoes (or about two pounds). It’s greatest to peel them, but we have manufactured the soup with unpeeled tomatoes.

A Rapid Recap

This is your new favorite weeknight meal. Guarantee.

• This tomato soup has three components (plus water and salt).


• Every little thing is tossed into a pan — no browning, no hovering more than a stove.


• You can use canned tomatoes — and should.


• Did I mention there are only three ingredients?

What Our Readers Are Saying

If you don’t feel that our recipe helps you attain ideal tomato soup at residence, consider a appear at what our readers are saying about the recipe! A lot more evaluations are in the feedback area under.

“WOW!! What a scrumptious and straightforward tomato soup, my 3 and one-year outdated have been as thrilled as my husband and I had been.” – Ashley

“This is the best tomato soup, hands down!! Can't say that emphatically ample. Did not change a thing from the recipe and it was excellent. Couldn’t be easier to make.” – John

“Made this specifically as written. Oh my gosh, this was amazing. ” – Dayna

More Easy Soup Recipes

• You may also want to take a peek at our chilled tomato soup recipe (Gazpacho)


• Try this Incredibly Easy and Creamy Vegetable Soup Recipe. It’s a single of our absolute favorites and something we make often.


• A great recipe for homemade vegetable broth — It’s ultra-satisfying!


• Or, for anything a minor various, our roasted tomato soup with lemon and thyme.


• This easy homemade chicken noodle soup recipe is wholesome, satisfying, and tastes extraordinary. It’s more quickly to make than the standard version, also!

Recipe updated, initially posted October 2015. Given that posting this in 2015, we have tweaked the recipe to be much more clear and additional a swift recipe video. – Adam and Joanne

Easy Three-Ingredient Tomato Soup

• PREP 5mins


• COOK 40mins


• Complete 45mins

You only want 3 primary ingredients to make this velvety, wealthy tomato soup recipe. This, pals is your new favored weeknight meal.

You Will Want

four tablespoons unsalted butter

one/two big onion, cut into massive wedges

1 (28-ounce) can tomatoes, we prefer to use complete peeled or crushed, see notes for fresh tomatoes

1 1/2 cups water, reduced sodium vegetable stock, or chicken stock

1/two teaspoon fine sea salt, or much more to taste

Instructions

Melt butter above medium heat in a Dutch oven or large saucepan.

Add onion wedges, water, can of tomatoes with their juices, and 1/two teaspoon of salt. Bring to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, for about 40 minutes. Stir occasionally and add extra salt as needed.

Mix the soup, and then season to taste. The soup doesn’t require to be ultra-smooth, some texture is a great touch. An immersion blender does make swift work of this, or you can use a blender. If you use a standard blender, it is ideal to mix in batches and not fill the blender as a lot as you typically would since the soup is so sizzling. We like to remove the center insert of the lid and cover it with a kitchen towel even though blending — this aids to release some of the steam and prevents the blender lid from popping off (which can be a huge, scorching mess).

Adam and Joanne's Suggestions

• Can I use fresh tomatoes? Yes. If you want to use fresh tomatoes, you will want ten to 12 medium tomatoes (or about two pounds). You can peel them, but we skip this stage because we will be blending the soup in the end anyway.


• Can I include basil? This soup is tasty with and with out basil. Adding a handful of fresh basil at the finish before blending the soup is a wonderful notion.


• Nutrition details: The nutrition information provided beneath are estimates. We have employed the USDA Supertracker recipe calculator to calculate approximate values. We have omitted salt because you will want to include to your tastes.

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