weeknight tomato soup – smitten kitchen

Whereas this isn’t the Smitten Kitchen’s solely tomato soup — there’s one with roasted summer season tomatoes capped with an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich within the archives, and additional again, a traditional cream of tomato soup tailored from Prepare dinner’s Illustrated — neither are this: a seasonless tomato soup I could make on any wet day, together with the nonnegotaible grilled cheese sandwiches, in beneath an hour. Each of the archived recipes have their charms; the primary is nice when tomatoes are at their peak. The second is great however fussy, extra best for if you’ve received the time or endurance to indicate off. However this has eclipsed each within the rotation for the final couple winters, and some issues make it excellent for us:

– Sure, grocery retailer tomatoes: If you happen to, like me, purchase cherry or grape tomatoes much more typically than you employ them up, this soup is for you. No, I don’t imply wonderful, peak-season cherry tomatoes from a backyard or farm stand on a sizzling summer season day; save these for snacking or a salad. I actually imply even the extremely mediocre ones you may discover on sale at a sequence retailer within the useless of winter. This soup makes the argument that even bland, low season cherry and grape tomatoes will present extra taste and nuance than canned tomatoes and the proof might be within the bowl. And sweetness! Cream of tomato soup recipes add a bit sugar, however I discover that storebought grape tomatoes present sufficient with out it.

– A easy base: All the pieces else is about merely layering in taste — onions cooked in butter till candy and evenly browned on the edges, garlic, pepper flakes to style, a splash of sherry if that’s your factor, tomato paste, and any type of broth you wish to use, vegetable or hen. It simmers for quarter-hour (that is if you make the grilled cheese sandwiches) and blends easy.

– Cream-optional: This was meant to be a cream of tomato soup, and you’ll, if you happen to’d like, add cream on the finish to style. However the texture is so velvety and easy from the tomato and candy onions, you may discover you don’t want or need it in any respect.

– Riffable: This isn’t simply my new weeknight tomato soup, it’s a basis I’ve used for lots of tweaked leftovers. Typically, I’ll add cooked lentils (Dealer Joe’s stay my fridge staple), however even some tortellini, and a handful of spinach wilted in, plus a bit parmesan on prime work properly too. And it really works as effectively with the French onion soup-style grilled cheese on prime because the roasted tomato soup does.

Podcast! My new podcast with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, The Recipe with Kenji and Deb, launched this previous week and our first episode is all about Stovetop Mac-and-Cheese! You’ll be able to hearken to it wherever you get your podcasts and I’ve arrange a brand new podcast tab/web page the place you’ll be able to sustain on it right here, too. We can have new episodes each two Mondays and this tomato soup will characteristic prominently in Episode 4! We’ve been engaged on this behind the scenes for the final 12 months — I hope you get pleasure from listening alongside.

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