20 min Tomato Basil Soup Recipe [+VIDEO] 🍅 MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Published: Feb 3, 2020 · Modified: Sep 21, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

Homemade Tomato Basil Soup makes for a lovely comforting dinner and I can never get enough of this recipe.

This soup is for you if you are looking for an easy dinner meal prepared with fresh tomatoes within 20 minutes.

Originally, back in 2012, I called it a soup a la provencale.

The soup is inspired by the south french, Provence region, which means it's a Mediterranean soup.

💡 Time-saving and Dietary plus points

This tomato basil soup has many advantages. Here are some of them:

• homemade from scratch preparation with whole ingredients making it a healthy soup
• quick, easy and simple to prepare within 20 minutes in just one pot
• vegan and dairy-free
• gluten-free which is an advantage if you have celiac disease
• low sodium if you use a homemade vegetable broth or a low sodium canned broth
• low calorie which is great for weight loss

🔪 How to make it?

This is roughly how I have been making this delicious tomato basil soup.

This will help you to decide at a glance if you want to make this tonight.

The complete recipe with ingredients and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.

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Step 1

Sautee onion and garlic and add the tomato.

Pour in broth and season.

Step 2

Cook ingredients soft covered.

Step 3

Blend soup to a smooth consistency or leave it chunky.

Serve hot.

📜 Flavor variations

I usually like to stick to the basic tomato basil soup recipe but you can pep up or make the following changes to your soup:

• spice up the soup with a pinch of cayenne pepper, cumin powder, and coriander powder. Use them together or alone.
• add pasta such as small pastina noodles to the soup
• use peeled Tomatoes or without seeds (see in FAQs below why)
• roast your tomatoes first to bring out the sweet intense flavors of your fruits (yep the tomato is actually a fruit)
• serve it cold like gazpacho or my orange tomato soup

The suggestions are all optional but a great way to upgrade your tomato soup!

🥣 Serving

At home, we serve up this soup with a green salad and toasted bread.

It's a light dinner meal but feel free to enjoy your tomato soup with a "heavier" protein-rich salad such as a shrimp louie, caesar salad and similar.

Another favorite addition to this soup is garlic bread or a nutritious whole grain bread such as this spelt bread.

Craving more comfort flavors? Then I recommend a cheesy grilled cheese sandwich with this soup or a Croque monsieur or madame.

💭 FAQs

📖 Recipe