Easy Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
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If you’re in search of a quick and delicious supper, this easy tomato basil soup recipe ticks all the boxes. Using just four ingredients, it’s on the table in 30 minutes.
This easy tomato basil soup recipe couldn’t be simpler. I got the recipe from the cooks at St. Mary’s in Sewanee, Tennessee many, many years ago. I love to serve it with toasty grilled cheese sandwiches for a perfectly soothing meal at the end of a long day.
All you need is four ingredients to make this creamy tomato basil soup: a can of tomato soup, a can of diced tomatoes, basil pesto, and milk. Simply add the ingredients to a saucepot and let them simmer. In 30 minutes it’s ready to serve to your hungry family as the main dish. Or perhaps it will become your new favorite weekday lunch?
This soup is delicious with lots of tomato flavor. It’s also light, healthy, and vegetarian. It’s no tomato basil bisque, which uses cream to make it thicker, but it ticks all of my boxes! Plus, there’s no need for an immersion blender or roasted tomatoes like other tomato soup recipes out there. It’s the definition of easy, which is just how I like it.
Recipe Ingredients
- Can of petite diced tomatoes
- Pesto sauce
- Tomato soup
- Milk (I’m using whole milk but you can use whatever is in your fridge).
How To Make My Easy Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
Pour the tomato soup into a saucepot. Fill up the soup can with milk and add that.
Pour in the can of diced tomatoes, juice and all.
Add a tablespoon of pesto sauce.
Stir that up and heat over medium until heated through.
Serve warm.
Oh my goodness, you’ll never believe something this simple can be this good.
Hope this tomato basil soup warms you right up!
Storage
Store soup leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also freeze leftovers for up to three months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating quickly on the stovetop.
Recipe Notes
- Garnish your bowl of hot soup with cracked fresh basil leaves, garlic croutons, or fresh parmesan cheese.
- If you want to use instead of the can, you’re going to need to roast a handful of or plum tomatoes in and then blend them to make a homemade version of . Then you’ve got yourselves .
- Instead of whole milk, I’ve heard this works well with .
- For added flavor, add a teaspoon of or chopped fresh basil to the .
Recipe FAQs
What can I pair with a bowl of tomato basil soup?
This soup goes great with its best friend, i.e. a grilled cheese sandwich or some homemade cheesy garlic bread, but you can pair it with a whole bunch of other food. Try it with an Italian salad. Cook up some ravioli and add it to the bowl. Tuna salad sandwich lover? Dunk it in this beautiful bowl. Or simply dip in a slice of crusty bread. The possibilities are endless. Feel free to dunk.
You make like some of these soup recipes:
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Ingredients
- 1 can tomato soup
- 1 an petite diced tomatoes undrained, 15-ounce
- 1 tablespoon pesto sauce
- 1 1/4 cup milk
Instructions
- In a saucepot, place the tomato soup, tomatoes, and pesto sauce.1 can tomato soup, 1 an petite diced tomatoes, 1 tablespoon pesto sauce
- Fill the tomato soup can with milk and pour that in as well.1 1/4 cup milk
- Stir and heat over medium until heated through. Enjoy!
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This looks great – and I don’t like pesto! Thanks for the recipe and the “trip” to Sewanee!
Thanks for the recipe I love tomato soup with hot cornbread and butter thanks for the nice pictures for my minds eye of Tennessee. I always enjoy Gatlinburg.
I just came across your blog and loved your account of your visit to Sewanee. I have the pleasure to live here, just four years now.
We left California without regrets.
Sewanee is a special place for so many reasons.
I invite everyone to visit and if you would like to
see more pictures of the area, visit my blog
http://redoakhollow.blogspot.com
I plan to make the soup. I just need to go to the Piggly Wiggly for the pesto.
The food at St. Mary’s is very good. The Sewanee women’s club
meets there once a month and the lunch is always excellent.
Good blog. I will visit often.
The soup really does look great. I’d love to visit the south sometime. I’m from northern Ca,its beautiful here, but something about the south makes me want to pack up and move even tho I’ve never been farther east than wyoming!But, I will definatly have to give the soup a try! Thanks!
I just googled Sewanee and yes, it is a pretty place. I’m hoping that in the near future I can do some more extensive travel of the South. I’d like to get a car and drive around. I actually feel pretty comfortable driving over there. It wasn’t at all bad, but my confidence is not so great that I would attempt it in say, LA or NYC. 😉 I am still telling people how beautiful I found the South to be; both in it’s landscape and the people. In fact, I was speaking to the doctor at the hospital today during my appointment and telling her about my holiday, and I said exactly that to her.
Tomato soup – I love it. 🙂
I love adding the extra milk to make it super creamy. Your twist looks delicious.
Oh I had some great soups while I was over there Christy. Especially the she-crab soup in Charleston. I know you aren’t fond of little sea critters, but oh that soup was so divine.
Christy,
Thanks for sharing your memories with us. This story makes me want to travel south, not necessarily to Tennessee, but anywhere away from all the snow we’re getting here in Ohio!! The soup looks great! I’m going to try that tonight with a grilled cheese sandwich. Any other soup recipes hiding up you sleeve? My hubby works outside all day, so I keep stews or chili in the fridge ay all times during the winter months.
Veronica
I think I could eat some of that soup! Slurp! LOL
I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing! 😀