Easy Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
If you’re in search of a quick and delicious supper, this easy tomato basil soup recipe ticks all the boxes. Using just four ingredients, it’s on the table in 30 minutes.
This easy tomato basil soup recipe couldn’t be simpler. I got the recipe from the cooks at St. Mary’s in Sewanee, Tennessee many, many years ago. I love to serve it with toasty grilled cheese sandwiches for a perfectly soothing meal at the end of a long day.
All you need is four ingredients to make this creamy tomato basil soup: a can of tomato soup, a can of diced tomatoes, basil pesto, and milk. Simply add the ingredients to a saucepot and let them simmer. In 30 minutes it’s ready to serve to your hungry family as the main dish. Or perhaps it will become your new favorite weekday lunch?
This soup is delicious with lots of tomato flavor. It’s also light, healthy, and vegetarian. It’s no tomato basil bisque, which uses cream to make it thicker, but it ticks all of my boxes! Plus, there’s no need for an immersion blender or roasted tomatoes like other tomato soup recipes out there. It’s the definition of easy, which is just how I like it.
Recipe Ingredients
- Can of petite diced tomatoes
- Pesto sauce
- Tomato soup
- Milk (I’m using whole milk but you can use whatever is in your fridge).
How To Make My Easy Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
Pour the tomato soup into a saucepot. Fill up the soup can with milk and add that.
Pour in the can of diced tomatoes, juice and all.
Add a tablespoon of pesto sauce.
Stir that up and heat over medium until heated through.
Serve warm.
Oh my goodness, you’ll never believe something this simple can be this good.
Hope this tomato basil soup warms you right up!
Storage
Store soup leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also freeze leftovers for up to three months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating quickly on the stovetop.
Recipe Notes
- Garnish your bowl of hot soup with cracked fresh basil leaves, garlic croutons, or fresh parmesan cheese.
- If you want to use instead of the can, you’re going to need to roast a handful of or plum tomatoes in and then blend them to make a homemade version of . Then you’ve got yourselves .
- Instead of whole milk, I’ve heard this works well with .
- For added flavor, add a teaspoon of or chopped fresh basil to the .
Recipe FAQs
What can I pair with a bowl of tomato basil soup?
This soup goes great with its best friend, i.e. a grilled cheese sandwich or some homemade cheesy garlic bread, but you can pair it with a whole bunch of other food. Try it with an Italian salad. Cook up some ravioli and add it to the bowl. Tuna salad sandwich lover? Dunk it in this beautiful bowl. Or simply dip in a slice of crusty bread. The possibilities are endless. Feel free to dunk.
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Ingredients
- 1 can tomato soup
- 1 an petite diced tomatoes undrained, 15-ounce
- 1 tablespoon pesto sauce
- 1 1/4 cup milk
Instructions
- In a saucepot, place the tomato soup, tomatoes, and pesto sauce.1 can tomato soup, 1 an petite diced tomatoes, 1 tablespoon pesto sauce
- Fill the tomato soup can with milk and pour that in as well.1 1/4 cup milk
- Stir and heat over medium until heated through. Enjoy!
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Loved your pictures so much. Might just try to get up there.
I am sure your tomato soup is delicious but my very favorite is homemade tomato soup made with homemade tomato juice. I don’t use a recipe, just TRY to make it like my mother did. She made the best. I canned about 11 or 12 quarts of tomato juice and already I am getting requests for tomato soup like grandmama made. Half goes to my son with no salt at all and half goes to everyone else (mostly to make virgin bloody mary’s). But I have learned to make pretty good tomato soup using juice in plastic (no cans) containers from the grocery store. I love your site. It is new to me.
This sound really good, we love just the regular condensed tomato soup. What could you do with the rest of the pesto sauce? Does it freeze well?
I just found out what to do with the extra pesto…….make more of this soup! It was soooo good. Very close to the tomato bisque at mellow mushroom. We really enjoyed this one. 🙂
Looks like a place I would love to go! How far is that from here, not very is it? Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup goes together about like PB&J!
That looks delish and I Suwannee, Sewanee, TN looks beautiful!!! Sincerely, Cindy
Made this soup tonight—DELISH!! I can’t imagine it without grilled cheese sandwiches though. They just go together like PB&J. Thanks for the recipe!
I made this last night after reading your post yesterday. I went straight to the store to get pesto. It was hard waiting all day to make dinner. I could hardly wait! IT WAS AWESOME! Next time I am going to double the recipe for left overs for lunch the next day.