Cream of Tomato Soup

According the Campbell's soup company, the top selling soups are chicken-noodle, cream of tomato, and cream of mushroom. These three soups consistently stay in the top ten grocery items purchased every week.

Cream of tomato soup is delicious with grilled cheese sandwiches. Cream of tomato soup can also be used as a sauce component for casseroles. With a little effort, you can quickly make this soup to use in recipes or serve simply as soup.

This particular recipe is sized especially for use in other recipes. If you plan to serve as soup, you will want to adjust the proportions. The yield is about 2 cups of soup.

Ingredients

• 2T olive oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1t salt
• 1t sugar
• 2T flour
• 5-6 Roma tomatoes, peeled or 1 14-oz can whole tomatoes
• 1/4C tomato paste
• 1/2C homemade almond milk

Directions

1. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil.
2. Stir in salt and sugar.
3. While onion mixture is cooking, blend tomatoes until a juice consistency. Set aside.
4. Stir flour into saute mixture and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes.
5. Pour tomato juice into saute mixture and add tomato paste. Stir to combine well.
6. Reduce heat to medium low and cooking for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Pour mixture into blender and add milk.
8. Blend until creamy and smooth (a couple of minutes in a Vitamix).