Creamy Tomato Soup

This week I am making creamy tomato soup. There are a lot of options with soup. Soup can be thick, creamy, chunky, and liquid with solids. Today there are many terms you hear often with soup for example bisque, chowder, stock or broth, bouillon, and consommé. You have a choice of different meats seafood, chicken, pork or beef bone to add more flavor. Choices of liquids to add for thickness or smoothness with dairy, non-dairy, cream, and cheese to give the creamy element.

Certain spices can remind people of a different culture. If by adding chili powder, they can give it a kick. Fantastic for cold weather. Soups are wonderful to keep you hydrated during cold winter weather. In the olden days, pots are not as strong they cannot handle the heat. With the past, soups were cooked by adding hot stones to cook the soup. The importance of soup is the cooking process to take out all the nutrients from the protein and vegetables.

Creamy Tomato Soup

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. vegan butter

1 onion(diced)

2 clove of garlic

4 cup of tomato

1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp parsley

1 large bay leaf

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbsp. basil

2 tsp honey

salt and pepper

Instructions:

1. In a medium pot, turn on the stove to allow vegan butter to melt.
2. Chop and peel onions. Dice onions. Mince the garlic.
3. Add garlic in the pan, saute the garlic and add in the onions. Cook and stir to combine.
4. Place tomatoes, broth, baking soda, parsley, and bay leaves. Let it cool. Once boiled. Lower the heat.
5. Remove the large herb such as bay leaves. Allow it to cool and puree the soup.
6. Can add gluten-free crouton on the top of the soup. I like to stir in a little of the non-dairy milk to make it creamy.
7. Enjoy!

What to Add to Soup

• fresh diced tomato on top
• pesto on top
• saute bacon and onion on top
• chunks of chicken with spinach
• fresh basil on top

The benefit of Tomato Soup

Creamy tomato soup is a wonderful simple nutritional soup to have weekly. Tomato has a large amount of lycopene, which is good for inflammations. You can make a quick lunch grill cheese with creamy tomato soup. What can you have with tomato soup? You can have soup with mozzarella stick, avocado salad or with BLT. Tomato soup can be stored in the freezer. If you want to freeze the soup, do not add dairy products in it until you want to have the soup. It can be stored for 6 months.

If you are always looking at a screen, do have soup to help with your eyes nice and strong. What I should try are Asian gluten-free meal ideas.