Grammy's Kitchen · Tomato Soup · Simple Homemade Tomato Soup
One of 78 tomato soup recipes we measured
from pinchofyum.com
152 cooks on pinchofyum.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 108% | 53% |
| dairy | 3% | 4% |
| fat | 0% | 3% |
| aromatics | 4% | 13% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 4 slices bacon, cut into small pieces | |
| 122 g | 2 carrots, chopped |
| half of a yellow onion, chopped | |
| 12 g | 4 cloves garlic, minced |
| 25 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon flour |
| 960 g | 4 cups chicken broth (more to thin out the soup at the end as needed) |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme |
| 1 g | 1 bay leaf |
| 794 g | 1 28-ounce can whole San Marzano tomatoes |
| 30 g | 2 tablespoons cream (optional – to add at the end as desired) |
| kosher salt to taste (I like 1-2 teaspoons) |
Method: 5 steps, published by pinchofyum.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Anytime I need to thicken soup I just whisk 2teaspoons of cornstarch into 1-2 Tablespoons of cold water or broth. Pour that into your soup as you heat it on a very low simmer. Keep the lid off and stir it in. The cornstarch will thicken it and the longer it si” — a cook, 5.0★
“Unfortunately have to agree with the negative reviews! I followed the recipe to the T and it came out incredibly bland and totally lacking in rich tomato flavor, which I thought would be opposite given the bacon fat! Trying to doctor it up so I can serve it at” — a cook, 2.0★