📋Homemade Roasted Tomato Basil Soup

roasted tomato basil soup in 2 blue ceramic bowls with garlic bread on top

5 from 7 votes

📋Homemade Roasted Tomato Basil Soup

Homemade roasted tomato basil soup is healthy, full of flavors and very easy to make. It's packed with fresh herb flavors from basil. Put fresh garden tomatoes and herbs to best use with this soup.

Prep Time10

Cook Time45

Total Time55

Course: Appetizer, Side Dish, Soup

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 154kcal

Author: Jyothi Rajesh

Ingredients

3 pounds ripe roma tomatoes sliced lengthwise or halved
2 onions (yellow onion or white onion)
5 garlic pods
½ cup celery stalk chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
½ cups lightly packed fresh basil leaves roughly torn

To serve

Parmesan shavings
Homemade croutons or crusty bread or grilled cheese sandwich

Instructions

Preheat oven at 400 F (200 C). Grease baking tray with olive oil. Arrange sliced tomatoes, roughly chopped white onions, garlic, celery stick on baking tray.
Drizzle olive oil. Sprinkle salt and fresh ground pepper.
Bake in preheated oven for 40-45 minutes.
Once roasted, remove from oven and allow them to cool for 10 minutes.
Add them to high power blender and blend. You can also use hand blender.
Blend at low speed first then slowly increase the speed. Be careful, blending hot ingredients may result in splattering.
Blend soup according to the consistency you like.
Transfer soup into large saucepan. Simmer it for 10-15 minutes. If soup is too thick, thin it by adding vegetable stock.
Taste test and adjust seasoning accordingly.
Allow tomato basil soup to simmer for 7 to 10 minutes before serving. You can add a dash of dried oregano for added flavor.
Pour soup into serving bowls.
Garnish with little more chopped basil leaves. Shave few Parmesan cheese on top.
Serve hot with Parmesan shaving, or croutons on top of the soup.

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Notes

I roasted all the ingredients together at a time in the oven. Alternatively, you can roast just tomatoes, and garlic in the oven and roast onions separately on the stovetop or if you have left-over caramelized onions stored. This method will give you perfectly caramelized onions to make rich soup.
To make the soup creamier, you can add cream or milk.

Nutritional Info – Please remember that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

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