Anyone here giving advice on tomato soup making

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. ?

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

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

My daughter and oh roast them in the oven first

That made me laugh MerylStreep! Your poor daughter!

I always put vodka in mine ?

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.
Season.

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 ?

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.

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

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!??

My daughter and oh roast them in the oven first.

A dash of Worcestershire sauce

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.

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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A little balsamic vinegar might help to balance it.

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.