Homemade Tomato Soup

Tired of canning tomatoes, running out of jars, but still have plenty in the garden?? Here’s a great recipe – just like those expensive cartons of tomato soup, but you control the ingredients and use up those sun-warmed garden tomatoes.  I grow a flower box of basil just to use in tomato recipes like this.
Freezer Tomato Soup
1 pound onions -- thinly sliced
1/4 cup olive oil
6 pounds tomatoes -- peeled and quartered
Homemade chicken broth or water, Add to Tomatoes to Make 13 Cups total
2 (6 oz) cans tomato paste
1/4 cup fresh basil -- snipped
1 teaspoon thyme -- crushed leaf type
1 teaspoon Sugar -- or Splenda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce**
Cook onion in hot oil until tender. Stir in all ingredients. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 40 minutes, stir occasionally. Puree mixture with blender stick. until the consistancy you like, or run through your blender in batches after cooling some. I leave ours a little chunky.  Cool, pour into freezer containers, ( I use quart freezer bags) and freeze.
To serve, thaw, cover and cook until heated through. If still frozen, cook as directed over medium-low heat for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
"Yield: "6 Pint Jars" or 12 cups
COST in Summer 2010: Cost with garden tomatoes and basil is $ 6.05 or 68 cents per pint with purchased onions.
Per 1 cup Serving: 122 Calories; 6g Fat (37.4% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 18g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 634mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 3 Vegetable; 1 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.
**Louisiana Hot Sauce (800 299-9082) www.brucefoods.com is Gluten Free

1 comment:

  1. We live in the city and don't have a lot of space for growing anything but on occasion we get a bumper crop of tomatoes. My husband can't eat fresh tomatoes so for us I find it best to make pasta sauce. On year we had a boat load of tomatoes and I was away for a month. I hate peeling tomatoes and stumbled on this simple solution to both problems. Hubby rinsed the tomatoes and threw them into zip top bags. When I got home and was ready to make and can sauce, I simply dropped the frozen tomatoes into really hot water, after about 15 second the skins slipped right off and I could just let them thaw in a strainer. Once thawed I just made my sauce as usual. Frequently we add sautéed mushrooms to our sauce. I have even been known to add grated carrots to my sauce for a little sweetness and a little more veggie in the jar.

    ReplyDelete

Hi...we'd love to hear from you.
Comments are moderated before appearing...Thanks.