Awesome Easy Tomato Soup
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It’s almost that time of year again… The time when we can warm up at lunch with a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup!
I LOVE this recipe that was given to me by my friend Anne…who got it from her friend Anne. (Yeah, like that’s not ever confusing.) Along with canning lots of tomato sauce and tomato juice and salsa, I love canning several jars of Anne’s tomato soup for the winter! (Wait, which Anne is that?)
Most of the tomato soup you’ll find at the store will have high fructose corn syrup or sugar in it…
This recipe has no sugar…which is amazing because it tastes so yummy and sweet! Once when Matt was eating some, he asked at least three times, “This really doesn’t have any sugar in it?” :)
Homemade Tomato Soup
5 pounds chopped tomatoes
1 cup chopped onion
3 T. butter
1 1/2 t. sea salt
Put everything in a big pot and cook it for about 3 hours. Then, put it into your blender and blend until smooth. Freeze it, or can it following these canning methods.
I love having recipes like this that are so simple to make and healthy for my family!
Mmmmm…this one may be totally worthy of buying some canning jars! I am due with my first baby in 6 weeks and have been looking for easy meals to make. We LOVE homemade tomato soup. Comically, I never tried it until I was MARRIED (4 years ago) because I don’t like tomatoes. Never mind that I knew I liked tomato sauce, ketchup, etc. Now it is one of my favorites. With grilled cheese. Yummmm.
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The soup sounds delicious.
I definitely agree with you about your bangs in that first picture. They are FABULOUS! :)
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This sounds great! Thanks for sharing it. I’ve printed it off to make it this week.
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Oh, yum! We love tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches! I’ve never made homemade though.
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Does it matter if you use regular salt?
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Sounds good!
I just canned 26 quarts of tomato soup Sunday night. It was a TON of soup, & I’m STILL tired from that adventure, LOL, but I’m glad to have it & will be very thankful the first chilly evening that I pull one out of the cabinet to fix for supper!
Nice blog you have. :) I don’t get online much, but when I do, I’ll try to come back. :)
JustJane
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Hello Laura…thank you for sharing. About how many tomatoes equal 5 lbs? I have this huge box of tomatoes and have no idea what that might equal.
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This soup was excellent!
I had never made homemade tomato soup before. The same day I read your blog post about this soup I was given some tomatoes from a friend’s garden; now I was fully prepared to make your soup. It was delicious! I will definitely make it again…and again.
Lindsay– I had two large tomatoes(slightly bigger than my fist) and four small tomatoes(Roma sized)and weighed them on my kitchen scale and that only equaled 3 lbs. Maybe you can “guesstimate” with that information. I just made a half batch.
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Thank you for the nice, simple recipe! I made a quad batch, didn’t have enough onions, so threw in three banana peppers…flavor was good! I poured the soup through a metal strainer after blending it, too, because I didn’t want the seeds in it. I’m excited to try some soon in some goulash!!
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I am so glad I found your site…and this recipe. My daughter’s and I absolutely love tomato soup, especially with grilled cheese sandwiches. I can’t wait to make a batch and be able to save it for the winter months. My girls will be happy to be able to help me make some soup since they like helping me can veggies. Thank you so much!!!
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Made some of this wonderful soup a few months ago and canned it. We have already used half of them (didn’t have too many tomatoes to fix.) Some we have at as a soup. Others I used them as a base for my homemade spaghetti sauce. Absolutely love this easy recipe. I will most definitely make more next year!! Thank you Laura!!
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Hi! Thanks for so many of your awesome recipes! I actually just started menu planning and used several of your recipes in my week one…so far all have been EXCELLENT and very easy for a busy family…my kids have loved them too! I made this tomato soup recipe today too…and it made enough for 3 hearty family size servings…I froz the extra 2 servings for a future date…
I did try making it with 1 cup skim milk to every 2.5 c. of tomato mixture. I always used to eat the Campbell’s version with a little milk mixed in…and it worked great with this recipe too…except HUGE BONUS that this soup is natural and has no sugar/high fructose corn syrup, etc…and still tastes GREAT! You can check out my post with lots of links back to your great recipes here…http://makingoverme.blogspot.com/2010/02/menu-plan-feb-15-21.html
Thanks again!
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Hi Laura,
This recipe looks great and I cannot wait to add it to my canning repertoire this fall… assuming baby #2 due 9/15 doesn’t interfere with my grand canning plans this year :) Do you use a water bath canner for this recipe? How long do you process it for, and do you add any lemon juice to make sure it has enough acid? Thanks in advance!
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Laura Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
You water bath it for about thirty minutes. I don’t add lemon juice, but you can if you want.
Congrats on the new baby!
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How do you cook it- as in medium heat or high heat? or just bring to boil, then simmer for 3 hours?
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Laura Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I bring it to a boil, then simmer.
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I really love to eat lots of different kinds of soup specially vegetable based soups.,~;
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I wonder if you could cook this in a crockpot all day and get decent results?
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Laura Reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
No, I don’t think so because you have to leave the lid off to let some of the liquid steam off. I’m not very comfortable with the idea of leaving the lid off of my crock pot all day, although maybe it would be okay?
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I too have a few questions that weren’t answered yet. Like how many tomatoes equal 5 lbs or how many tomatoes did you use? I would also like to know does it matter what “kind” of salt you use? I agree I’m loving this ideal being diabetic high fructose corn syrup or sugar is a no no for me. Thanks for making this SOOO easy that ANY one can do it!
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Laura Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
There are approximately 15 tomatoes in 5 pounds. It really doesn’t matter what kind of salt you use, but real sea salt is much better health wise.
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Hi Laura,
When you put the tomatoes in the pot, do they still have the skin on?
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Hi Laura!
Great website! I’ve been into organic, all natural cooking myself for many, many years now and it’s great to see your passion for it as well! I too would like to know if you left the skins on your tomatoes when you put them in the pot. Keep up the great work, and thanks for some great recipes!
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