Easy Fresh Tomato Soup with Smoked Gouda Recipe

Call it opposite attracts, match made in heaven or whatever you like, but the smokiness from Gouda cheese and the freshness from the fresh tomatoes make a perfect combination with tomato soup!

Course Appetizer, dinner, lunch, Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Easy Fresh Tomato Soup with Smoked Gouda

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 40

Servings

Calories 299

Author Mary Thatcher

Equipment

1 pot
1 blender

Ingredients

6-8 medium size fresh tomatoes
1/2 big onion or 1 small onion
1 head garlic
1 red bell pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
8 oz smoked Gouda cheese
4-5 leaves basil
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp dried oregano
1 1/2 tsp sea salt
3 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup heavy cream optional if you want it to be a tomato bisque

Instructions

Preheat the oven at 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Clean the vegetables. Make sure to take the seeds out of the bell pepper. Arrange them in a baking dish along with the smoked Gouda cheese. Drizzle some olive oil all over and roast the vegetables uncover for 20 minutes.
Crank the oven up to the broiling and set the timer for another 10 minutes. No need to wait for the oven to say “Broil”. The purpose is to give some chars to the vegetables without burning all the cheese or break your baking dish.
Transfer the roasted vegetables and melted Gouda cheese to a blender or a pot. If you do not have the hand blender, transfer the roasted vegetables to the regular blender. Add salt, ground black pepper, and oregano. Add 2-3 fresh basil leaves. Or you can transfer the roasted vegetables and cheese to a pot and blend it until smooth with the hand blender.
In a pot, the the roasted vegetables purée you made earlier, add chicken stock and heavy cream. Leave the heavy cream out if you do not want a bisque and only want the soup.
Simmer for another 10 minutes. Meanwhile start making some grill cheese if you’d like.
Serve the soup (bisque) hot, top with some fresh basil, Parmesan or your favorite cheese, and a little bit more of cream and enjoy!

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Notes

If your tomato soup is too thick for you, add another 1/2 cup of chicken or vegetable broth.

If you'd like to thicken the soup even more, be patient and keep simmering. Tomatoes consists of a lot of water. It will thicken up eventually.

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