Tomato Soup
Fresh and Savory!!! Great as a stand alone or use it as a base for all your favorite recipes
Ingredients
- 10 pounds Tomatoes
- 4 whole cloves
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 medium Onion
- salt
- 2 tblsp butter
- 2 Tablsp Flour
Instructions
Step One
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You will need to blanch the Tomatoes and remove skin. ( boiling water add tomatoes for 60 seconds remove from water and place in cold water, then remove skin)
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Placed the skinned Tomatoes in a large sauce pot, add the cloves, chicken broth and onion bring to a boil and let cook for 45 minutes on medium high heat.
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Take cooked tomatoes and blend either in a food mill (throw away any of the left over tomatoes, or use a blender.
Second step preparing Soup
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Place butter in a a soup pot melt and add flour, create a roux, cook for 1 minute. Whisk cooked and blended tomatoes slowly into the butter, flour roux to eliminate lumps, add all Tomatoes to the mixture.
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Season with Salt and serve.
Recipe Notes
Some recipes tell you to add Sugar to the soup. This was to eliminate the acid taste that tomatoes sometimes have. I haven’t had this problem, but if you feel the soup is to acidly then add a little sugar to give you the desired taste.