Tomato and Basil soup is a popular classic. It is so easy to make – either in a soup maker or in a pot on the stove, blending once cooked.
Some people prefer to remove the skin from tomatoes before souping them, but I don’t find it necessary when using a soup maker. The motor is so powerful that it blends the soup until it is completely smooth, and doesn’t have any bits of skin left.
If you don’t have any shallots, 1 onion will be perfectly fine too.
Since buying my Morphy Richards Soup Maker I have used it several times a week. Some weeks, every single day. I have been experimenting with many different recipes – mainly to put in my soup maker recipe book – but it’s also the perfect excuse to have soup almost every day!
Related: Spicy Tomato Soup
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Happy souping 🙂
Tomato & Basil Soup
Ingredients
- 3 shallots, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 5 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 1 medium potato, chopped
- 1 large carrot, peeled and chopped
- 8 basil leaves, chopped
- 800 ml vegetable stock
- 2 basil leaves, chopped, for garnish
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients (except the basil) to your soup maker. Stir ingredients together. Make sure you don't go over the MAX line. If you are not above the MIN line add some more hot water to top it up.
- Put the lid on and select the smooth setting.
- Once the program has finished, take the lid off and add the chopped basil leaves. Blend on the manual setting for about 20 seconds.
- Garnish with some chopped basil.
Notes
Did you make this recipe? Let me know in the comments!
Nutrition Information:
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 90
Do you have a recipe for French onion soup made in a soup maker. If it is as good as your tomato and basil it should be excellent.
I do have a recipe for French Onion Soup – I’ll see if I can make it next week and post it for you 🙂
Excellent have made this a couple of times is easy and delicious! Thank you
Thanks Patricia, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Can this soup be frozen please?
Hi Hazel – yes it can be. Once it has cooled down pop it in an airtight container or a freezer bag. It will be fine in the freezer for 6 months or so. Enjoy!
Hi I have just made you tomato &basil soup and have got to say it went down a treat for myself and a friend that came for lunch
Thank you and please let me know when and where I can find you cook book ?
Many thanks
Maureen
Hi Maureen – I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe and thanks for taking the time to let me know, it means a lot to me! You can get my soup maker recipe book on Amazon;
http://amzn.to/2jmG1LI
I look forward to hearing about more of your soups!
Liana x
Tried this tonight, really nice and a lot better than any tin version
Hi Scott – thanks for commenting and I’m really pleased you liked it 🙂
Lianas recipes are great to kick start a healthy 2019. Beautiful fresh tasting soup. So easy to prep and make. Makes enough for 4 generous servings. Absolutely loving your recipes. Have now purchased your book and I’m thinking of upgrading to a soup maker with saute function.
Aw, thanks Karen for the kind words! I love how good I feel when I’ve been having lots of fresh tasting soup 🙂
Just made your 🍅 & basil soup which turned out to be just 🍅 as only had dried basil. It was a success. I used frozen chopped onion which still worked. Thank you.
I’m happy to hear it was a success Maggie 🙂
Trying to start eating more healthily & this tomato and basil soup is lovely, light and tasty. Will definitely make this again.
Hi Sally – I’m so glad you liked it. Soups are a great way to eat healthier foods, you can sneak so many vegetables in!
I really want to try this, I had a roasted pepper and tomato soup at a wedding recently and I’ve been craving it ever since! Do you think if I added roasted peppers it would ruin it or be too much?
Hi Jessica – Red Pepper and Tomato is a really tasty soup so I say go for it! It will be a different taste to this recipe but I reckon it’ll still be really nice. If you do it I’d love to hear how you get on!
Beautiful soup -recipe is lovey, my first homemade soup in my soup maker.
Hi Pamela – I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed your first soup in your soup maker! May there be many more delicious recipes to come 🙂
picked up some large, on the vine, tomatoes from the reduced section of the supermarket this morning, and looked up this recipe. Just had a portion for lunch (it made 3) Absolutely delicious and screamingly healthy! The carrot and potato added to the smooth consistency so well it was as good as “cream of tomato”, and the basil was the ultimate addition. Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Carole – I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it – and what a bonus to get the tomatoes reduced, I love it when that happens!
Morphy Richards soup maker must be bigger than Tefal. I chopped all veg, then when it said 800ml stock, no way! May be a good idea to specify volume. But made it anyway and it’s yum
Thanks for your comment Allyson – yes it would seem that the Tefal soup maker is 1.2L whereas the Morphy Richards is 1.6L (except the Compact model which is 1L).
I made this soup today and feel it is lacking in flavour. Could it be the vegetable stock, I only used stock cubes x3.
Hi Sue, thanks for your comment. I wouldn’t use as many as 3 stock cubes – what I would suggest is trying a stock pot rather than a cube, they have much more flavour. Also, what tomatoes are you using? This could be a huge factor in the resulting taste.
I find this too with the Tomato and Basil it seems to be lacking something and us not as flavour some as I would like it’s my favourite flavour of Soup too but the taste is odd and not very Tomatoey even used 6 Tonatoes instead of 5 but it also has a bitty taste to it I use one veggie oxo cube I tried this a,while ago and got a,similar taste so dont know where I’m going wrong
Apologies for slight spelling mistakes in above post predictive test
Hi April – you could try experimenting by adding in some extras to get it more to your liking – my suggestion would be try using a stock pot rather than a stock cube – perhaps to address the lack of tomato taste you could add in 1 tbsp. of tomato puree? Also, season up according to your own taste preferences (celery salt is also a good addition to soups). It might help to thicken it up with a little more potato. Mine has always tasted of tomato, so it’s hard to know what is different. Let me know if you try any of those suggestions!
Hi Liana, I used tomatoes from the vine. Thank you though I will try the stock pots.
Hello, is it ok to freeze homemade soups, peter.
Hi Peter – yes absolutely fine to freeze homemade soups. Just leave it to cool down, put it in a suitable container and pop it in the freezer – they should be ok for around 2 to 3 months in there. Hope that helps!
Many thanks Liana.
I’ve just getting a soup maker today and tried your tomato soup, it’s amazing, thank you.
Just made this with my two year old (whilst we hide in the house from the virus), my fussy little girl had so much fun making it with me, and is miraculously scoffing it down as I type! I added about a tbsp of tom purée and a little Parmesan at the end (she needs the calories 😂). Deeeeelicious x
Hi Ciara – ah, that’s so lovely to hear – such a great way to get extra nutrients in and brilliant your little girl had fun making it, bonus! I hope you all stay well xx
Hi Liana
My wife passed away a little while ago and I am having to learn a lot of new skills. I have now bought your book and just made leek and potato soup in a new soup maker. I can’t believe how good it has turned out. I am now going to try the french onion & parmesan soup. Many thanks
Sydney
Hi Sydney,
Thanks very much for your message. I’m sorry to hear about your wife passing away. I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed the leek and potato soup and I wish you all the best for your future soup making. If you have any questions please do feel free to ask.
Warm wishes,
Liana
Liana
I have made tomato soup in soup kettle (not using your recipe but a Slimming recipe ) spraying low fat spray on the base of kettle. The soup has stuck a little on base and the base has to be scrubbed afterwards. Any tips to avoid thid
Hi Sheila – I’ve heard that from a few people, was it the recipe with the baked beans in? The problem is when you add too much tomato based ingredients and not enough stock or water – it burns on the bottom of the soup maker. If you let me know what recipe you used I’ll take a look for you 🙂
Liana
It is a recipe from Slimming World “little book of soups” adapting it for soup kettle. The tomatoes are roasted beforehand. Onions and garlic are placed at the bottom of kettle topped with roasted tomato with liquid to mark.
Thanks for replying
Hi Sheila – it could be that the tomatoes are placed on the bottom of the soup maker – what I would do is give everything a good stir, once the liquid is in too, making sure that no tomatoes are resting on the bottom of the soup maker. Also, make sure there is enough stock/water so that the tomatoes don’t burn on the bottom. I’m not familiar with that particular recipe, but if it has passata, or tinned tomatoes in it, be sure to add enough water or stock or it will burn. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the tip. As we grow our own tomatoes, I will be trying out your tip when surplus crop comes in.
Again thanks.
What is your definition of a medium tomato, either by weight or diameter
Hi. I’ve just made your tomato and basil soup in the soup maker my son bought me for Christmas, I’m sorry to say it lacks something, the tomato taste isn’t as good as say a tin of hienz, I used all the ingredients in your recipe, then after the disappointment I added a couple of spoons of tomato paste and blended it again, still not up to my expectations, I even used the best tomatoes (expensive) ones in Tesco, perhaps you could suggest something.
Regards Richard.
PS. I have a glut of courgettes in my garden, any suggestions.
Hi Richard – sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy this soup. Do you mean it doesn’t taste of tomato enough? If so, perhaps try adding more tomatoes, use on the vine tomatoes (if you’re not already), or even try it with tinned tomatoes. You could also try using a different stock (I find stock pots are better than stock cubes for taste). It won’t ever taste exactly like ‘Heinz’ as you are using fresh ingredients. Some people like to add a little sugar to get it more like Heinz – maybe you can try that? Hope that helps 🙂
Hey, could be my soup maker, but mine just isn’t going smooth, I’ve got it on now on a second smooth setting. Fingers crossed
Hi Gemma – what soup maker do you have?
I have a Morphy Richards Compact Soupmaker – which I love. But my Tomato Soup was a disaster. Followed the recipe but my soup was full of bits of tomato skin – which makes me shudder! Had to strain it through a sieve before I could eat it. Where am I going wrong here? I didn’t think from the photos that you had skinned the tomatoes, don’t really want to be bothered with doing that to be honest. Bought some passata and then discovered MR dont recommend the use of that in the soupmaker (why not?) so back to trying to sort this recipe out. Any help much appreciated.
Hi Maggie – you shouldn’t need to sieve it – I don’t have the Compact model but I regularly use fresh tomatoes in the other Morphy Richards Soup Maker models and there isn’t a trace of skin once it’s finished. I’ve never peeled the skins (I agree – I can’t be bothered with that either!) Is the soup maker blending ok with other recipes? No bits left?
As for MR not recommending the use of passata – it can burn on the bottom of the soup maker when there isn’t enough stock/non tomato based liquid in with it. I’ve never had this problem before but I know other people have.
Are you part of my soup maker FB group? There are quite a few members with the compact model that might be able to help. You can join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/365504170871750
I hope that helps Maggie, let me know if not!