🍅 Vitamix Tomato Soup

🍅 Vitamix Tomato Soup

If you love cozy soup nights, don't miss our amazing Vitamix Tomato Soup! This soup blends tomatoes and seasonings to create a velvety texture and savory flavor that will warm your belly on these cold nights!

Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine American

Total Time 28

Servings

Calories 601kcal

Author Marcie & Julie

Equipment

Vitamix or blender

Ingredients

1 Tablespoon olive oil
¼ large onion roughly chopped
1 clove garlic minced
28 ounce can whole peeled tomatoes
½ cup vegetable broth
¼ cup tomato paste
1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
½ Tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 Tablespoon fresh basil optional: plus extra for serving
8 baby carrots
1 cup whole milk
½ teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

Heat a regular-sized pan to low-medium heat and add olive oil. Once oil is heated, add onions and garlic. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove onions and garlic from pan and set aside.
Add whole peeled tomatoes (with juices), vegetable broth, tomato paste, balsamic vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, basil, cooked onion & garlic, and carrots to Vitamix (or blender).
Turn on blender and gradually increase to high-speed for 4-5 minutes or until well-blended and smooth. Continue blending in Vitamix until steam starts to escape from the lid plug and soup is hot.
Note: If using a blender, transfer soup to the stove, bring to a boil, and reduce to a simmer for 5-8 mins.
Add milk and blend for an additional minute. Turn off Vitamix and manually stir baking soda into the soup.
Sprinkle soup with any of these garnishes: fresh basil, shredded parmesan cheese, pepitas, goldfish crackers, croutons, oyster crackers. Enjoy!

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Notes

Liquid ingredients first- Add ingredients to blender in the order listed in the recipe card. Specifically, be sure to add liquid ingredients to your Vitamix first, as this helps prevent air pockets from forming around the blades and keeps the blades from stalling as contents are blended.

Blend on high- If using a Vitamix, be sure to start on low speed but quickly ramp up to high. Blending on high decreases blend time and also helps keep the motor cool. Visit the Vitamix website for more Vitamix blending tips and tricks.

Traditional blenders- While we love being able to make this soup almost entirely in our Vitamix, if you don't have a high-powered blender, simply make the soup in a regular blender, transfer to a sauce pan, and simmer it on the stove for about 5-8 minutes.

Steam carrots- If your blender isn't powerful enough to break down carrots into a purée, you can steam carrots ahead of time. If you don't have extra time to steam carrots, simply ditch the carrots and replace with an extra tablespoon of sugar. You'll lose the nutrients, but retain the sweetness of the tomato soup.

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