Tomato Basil Soup

"Serve with crusty French bread or a grilled cheese sandwich. YUM!"
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Melt the butter in a large stockpot over medium heat. Add the onion, celery and sugar and saute until caramelized.
  • Add the thyme, bay leaves, salt, pepper, garlic and cayenne and stir.
  • Add the stock and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Add the cream and brandy. Simmer 5 minutes.
  • Remove the bay leaves and puree about half of the soup in a blender until smooth.
  • Return the puree to the soup pot.
  • Add the basil pesto and heat through.
  • Serve. Can garnish with a little parmesan or mozzarella, fresh chives, croutons -- .

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Reviews

  1. Wonderful recipe! I made it as written except for the brandy. I had it with a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. Thanks for sharing. Made for PAC 2013.
     
  2. We have a local restraunt that has the BEST Tomatoe Basil soup and I have been trying and trying to find and equivalent recipe. This one did it. We LOVE it!!! Yummy!!! Thank you! It is really good the second day.
     
  3. This is a GREAT recipe!! Lots of ingredients so it sooks like it might be hard but it's super easy to put together. I made this for a group of family that came over on Saturday and asked them all to rate it for me. We got all 4.5 and 5 stars!! I will make this again! The only variation is that I didn't add the brandy because I didn't have any on hand and I used the chicken stock option. It was still wonderful! Thanks Desperada! Made for Spring PAC 2009
     
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