Anyone here giving advice on tomato soup making

Try adding some more salt and or Cider vinegar, lots of black pepper too.
Add a small bit at a time and taste before adding more.

A little balsamic vinegar might help to balance it.

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
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I make a tomato and roasted red pepper soup - heavy on the tomatoes and a couple of ripe red peppers. Roast the peppers until soft and then blitz the peeled peppers in a food processor and added to whatever tomato soup recipe you’re following, along with a heaped tablespoon of a good sundried tomato paste. The soup recipe I follow calls for the tomatoes to be ripe, halved and roasted until soft and this gives the soup a lovely deep flavour. The recipe I use doesn’t include onions as they tend to overpower - try substituting a couple of teaspoons of onion granules instead.

A dash of Worcestershire sauce

My daughter and oh roast them in the oven first.

MerylStreep

My daughter and oh roast them in the oven first.

Not sure about roasting a daughter in the oven first but, every day is a school day!??

I tin chopped tomatoes
1 tin carrots
1 tin baked beans
1/2 pt veg. stock
1 pickled onion.
Put everything in a saucepan, blitz and heat.

Delicious

Leave out the sugar and add basalmic vinegar or Worcster sauce and a pinch of salt. Like the idea of roasting the tomatoes as well.

Urmstongran

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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I’m with you ?

Jar of sun dried tomatoes drained of oil, roast 2 red peppers, 1 onion and a clove of garlic using some of the oil from the jar.

Now blitz with the sun dried tomatoes and 400ml veg stock.
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Try a good tablespoon of tomato puree, and add a small tin of chopped tomatoes or a small carton of passata.
I find fresh tomatoes are rather insipid if that's all you use.

I agree about the roasting and the balsamic vinegar. But I would say that any tomatoes bought at this time of year would either be extremely expensive or rather insipid (and quite possibly both).
To me, tomato is an end-of-summer soup when I can get good tomatoes. i also find it need quite a bit of salt.

Tomatoes should never be refrigerated, once they are chilled the flavour is gone.

I only use a pinch of sugar but only make it when tomatoes are cheap, otherwise you can’t go wrong with Heinz. In winter I make carrot or lentil soups.

I did a trial run recently of tomato and roasted red pepper soup - Gdcs’ s school Christmas fair needs 8 litres!

I used tinned plum tomatoes, onion (sweated in a little oil), roasted red pepper paste, sun dried tomato paste, tomato purée, a little sugar, Marigold stock, and tomato purée. Plus a little soya milk (I’ll be making it vegan)
A stick blender in the pan after simmering that lot.

Dh and I ate the trial run using 2 cans of tomatoes - it was very nice. Shall need 16 cans for the fair!

I've never made a soup using only tomatoes, usually add roasted peppers, and tomatoes roasted too, then all skinned and toms de-seeded. bit of a faff but I hate those little bits of skin.
Carrots are also good with tomatoes and this year i made my first soup with my own tomatoes and cannelloni beans plus other veg. Tried butter beans with the same recipe but it wasn't as good.

I always put vodka in mine ?

My daughter and oh roast them in the oven first

That made me laugh MerylStreep! Your poor daughter!

I know so many recipes suggest a touch of sugar with tomatoes but I never ever use any sugar, not so much as a single grain

Shinamae

Urmstongran

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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I’m with you ?

Sprinkled with grated parmesan

Rosie51

I know so many recipes suggest a touch of sugar with tomatoes but I never ever use any sugar, not so much as a single grain

Heinz tomato soup has sugar 4th on the list of 9 ingredients (I just checked*) after tomatoes, water, and modified cornflour. So presumably a fair amount.

I adapted my school fair soup from a couple of different recipes (had to be easy given that they want 8 litres!) so was adding this and that until it tasted spot on. So a level dessert spoon of sugar eventually went into the two can (1 litre) trial run.
I had to be very organised for once (unlike my usual soup making!) and write down everything that went in, so I can replicate the right taste on Soup Day.

*The can’s been sitting in the cupboard for at least a year - a niece who liked it used to stay for weekends from her boarding school. Now I’ve remembered it I think I’ll have some for lunch. ?

My finest hour with tomato soup was when I removed the weight from the pressure cooker too soon. A very tall friend who was visiting wiped the soup off the ceiling for me. Delicious - not!
Seriously, my late uncle, a great soup maker, used to add a smidgen of creme fraiche when serving it. Like all his other soups, it was excellent.

multicolourswapshop I'm not sure why it should be sweet, but try adding Worcester sauce.

Otherwise do what I did when I made cucumber soup with a glut of cucumbers from the greenhouse. Despite following a recipe, using fresh ingedients, lots of hard work and tlc, it tasted bitter so I poured it down the loo.