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RECIPE: Homemade Tomato Soup With Goat Cheese Crostini

January 12, 2016 at 8:21 pm · Filed under Food Holidays, Recipes, Soups

We love tomato soup, but have run out of patience with the added sweeteners—typically corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. We don’t like the excessive sweet taste of the soup, we don’t like the added calories, and we certainly don’t like HFCS.

For National Soup Month, here’s an easy recipe from Davio’s Boston, one of several locations in the excellent Davio’s Northern Italian Steak Houses in Atlanta, Manhattan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and later this year in Los Angeles.

A side of goat cheese crostini turns the soup into a first course or a sophisticated “soup and sandwich” lunch.

RECIPE: HOMEMADE TOMATO SOUP

Ingredients For 6 To 8 Portions

3 ounces unsalted butter, cubed

1 large white onion, sliced*

2 cans (28 ounces each) crushed San Marzano tomatoes†

1 quart chicken stock

1 loaf Italian bread, cubed

Salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoons fresh basil, julienned

2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped

Optional garnish: swirl of plain Greek yogurt

Optional side: goat cheese and chive crostini (recipe below)

Make tomato soup for National Soup Month. Photo courtesy Bella Sun Luci.

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*While butter adds a nice flavor note, you can substitute oil if you’re avoiding cholesterol, want a vegan option, etc.

†You can buy the tomatoes crushed or whole. Steve buys them whole and hand crushes them.

Preparation

1. MELT the butter in a stock pot; add the onions and cook until translucent. Add the tomatoes and chicken stock. Simmer for 1 hour.

2. ADD the cubed bread and simmer for 45 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside until cool. Purée until smooth with an immersion blender or in a regular blender or food processor. Taste and season with salt and pepper.

3. SERVE: Bring the soup to a simmer. Plate and garnish with the optional yogurt, then with the basil and parsley. Serve with the crostini.

Goat cheese crostini are delicious with soup
or a glass of wine. Photo courtesy Wines Of
Sicily.

RECIPE: GOAT CHEESE CROSTINI

Ingredients For 4 Servings

4 ounces spreadable goat cheese (a softened log is fine)

1 tablespoon chives, minced

1 garlic clove, minced

8 slices sliced baguette (1/2-inch-thick slices) toasted French bread baguette

Optional garnish: extra virgin olive oil, fresh-ground pepper and lemon zest

Preparation

1. TOAST the baguette slices.

2. BLEND together the goat cheese, dill and minced garlic. Spread evenly over the toasted baguette slices.

3. GARNISH with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and some lemon zest and fresh-ground black pepper.

DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRUSCHETTA
AND CROSTINI?

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