How to Prepare Appetizing Tomato soup - simple and savory

Tomato soup - simple and savory.

You can have Tomato soup - simple and savory using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tomato soup - simple and savory

1. It's 8 of nice plump tomatoes.
2. Prepare 3/4 cup of small diced celery with some of the leaves.
3. Prepare 3/4 cup of small diced onion.
4. It's 3 clove of s of fresh garlic minced.
5. You need 1 tsp of olive oil.
6. You need 1/2 cup of marsala/red cooking wine.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of white pepper/pepper.
9. It's 1 of Sugar to taste if desired.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
11. You need 1/2 cup of cream, optional.
12. You need 2 of or 3 fresh basil leaves julienned.

Tomato soup - simple and savory step by step

1. Clean tomatoes and cut into quarters and puree in blender, leave in blender.
2. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in saucepan on low-med heat, saute celary and onions then add the garlic..
3. If you want your soup chunky add tomato puree to saucepan. If you want smooth soup add saute mixture to blender and puree all together to desired texture.
4. Pour puree into saucepan, rinse blender with a bit of water and add to saucepan. Add red wine and simmer for 10 min or so.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. If you desire it creamy, remove from heat, stir in the baking soda (it will foam a bit) then slowly add the cream and stir..
7. Garnish with basil and ENJOY!.