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Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup

Updated 16 January 2024 Published 21 October 2021 16 Comments

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Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup Pinterest image.
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Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with basil is perfect for using up a glut of overripe tomatoes. It’s quick and easy to prepare with just 5 ingredients. 2 whole bulbs of roasted garlic give this soup a beautiful buttery and mellow garlic flavour.

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil in a bowl with pizzetta toast.

How did Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup come about?

This was my first year growing Marmande tomatoes which are a French heritage variety similar to a beef steak tomato and rich in flavour.

However, with the volatile weather we had this year my crop suffered. Many of the tomatoes suffered from blight and splitting due to too much rain.

There were a few good tomatoes but many seemed to be overripe (or just pale and fibrous inside).

So, with a windowsill full of mainly overripe tomatoes, I knew that making chutney was out of the question so I decided a roasted tomato soup would be the best option.

Then spying 2 bulbs of garlic I decided to add those but no onion.

Gino D’Aampo has often said that he was taught by an Italian chef to never mix garlic and onion in the same dish otherwise they’re too overpowering. He’s right as the garlic really is enough here!

Finally the pot of basil on my patio stared up at me so I used a handful of basil leaves to finish off the soup.

Marmande tomatoes in a colander.

What tomatoes should you use to make Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup?

Home grown or vine ripened tomatoes are best for flavour. If they’re split, battered, bruised or overripe it doesn’t matter, this soup is perfect for them.

Full flavoured tomatoes are best whether like plum or Marmande and cherry or cherry plum tomatoes would be equally good. Just no pale salad tomatoes please!

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup in a bowl with pizzetta toast.

What’s so good about this Roasted Tomato Soup?

  • Suitable for vegetarians.
  • Suitable for vegans.
  • It’s rich in lycopene which can potentially help prevent many chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.
  • Great for those following a healthy Mediterranean diet as it contains tomatoes, garlic and olive oil.
  • Perfect for people who can’t eat onion but can eat garlic.
  • A great way to use up a glut of tomatoes that are no good for eating or preserving.
  • It tastes incredible!

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil in a bowl with pizzetta toast.

How do you make Roasted Tomato Garlic Soup? (full recipe at end of post)

This soup is so quick and easy to prepare it will become your go to tomato soup recipe for fresh tomatoes!

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup Steps 5 - 8 of recipe.

  • Gather your ingredients: vine ripened tomatoes, garlic bulbs, quality vegetable stock cubes, fresh basil leaves and seasoning.
  • Place the garlic and tomato segments on a roasting tray and drizzle over the olive oil and seasoning and give the tomatoes a little toss with a spatula to coat.
  • Put roasting tray in a preheated oven at 180°C for 1 hour, turning the tomatoes halfway through.
  • Once roasted, allow to cool slightly before squeezing out the garlic from their skins.

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup Steps 1 - 4 of recipe.

  • Place tomatoes and garlic in a saucepan.
  • Blitz to desired consistency (it’s easier to gauge before you add the stock).
  • Stir in the vegetable stock and freshly chopped basil.
  • Gently heat to serving temperature and serve with cheesy bread!

What should you serve with this soup?

Crusty bread is the usual choice for soup but I think tomato soup cries out for cheese too so here are my suggestions!

Easy Cheesy Jalapeno Soda Bread, delicious and perfect with soup! Fab Food 4 All

Easy Cheesy Jalapeno Soda Bread

  • Pizzetta Toast (shown in all the soup photos)
  • Quick Ciabatta Pizzas
  • Easy Cheesy Chilli Cob
  • Olive & Parmesan Cob Loaf 
  • Easy Cheesy Jalapeno Soda Bread (in photo above)
  • Emmental Soda Bread
  • Wholemeal Cheddar & Apple Chutney Soda Bread with Cider 
  • Cheesy Pull Apart Garlic Bread

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil in a bowl with pizzetta toast.

What else could you add to roasted tomato soup?

You could add any of the following to the tomatoes and garlic before roasting:

  • Halved red or green chillies with the seeds scooped out.
  • ½ teaspoon dried crushed chillies.
  • Strips of red bell pepper.
  • Red onion segments (ignore Gino if you must)!
  • 1 – 2 teaspoons Smoked paprika.
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
  • Cubed chorizo sausage.
  • Fresh rosemary (instead of basil).
  • A can of cannellini, butter beans or red lentils after blitzing (may require more stock).
  • Lemon juice and sugar to taste after blitzing for a bit of zing.
  • Crispy bacon to garnish.

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil in a bowl with pizzetta toast.

How long will homemade tomato soup keep?

This soup will keep for 3 days if kept covered in the fridge.

Can you freeze this soup?

Yes, once cooled you can freeze by pouring the soup into a bag/s held up in a jug and seal. Remove the jug once the soup has frozen. Or you can fill ice cube trays and then transfer the cubes to a freezer bag and thaw what you need and heat.

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil in a bowl with pizzetta toast. - overhead shot

More recipes to help use up a glut of tomatoes!

If you grown your own tomatoes then you’ll find the following recipes very useful:

  • Roasted Tomato, Red Pepper & Chorizo Soup 
  • Mixed Tomato Chutney
  • Spicy Baby Tomato & Sweet Pepper Chutney 
  • Broccoli & Tomato Quiche
  • Easy Tomato & Bacon Tarte
  • Puff Pastry Tomato Tarte with Pesto 
  • Fresh Tomato Sauce (Italian Style with fresh or frozen tomatoes) 

I’m sure you’ll love this Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup so be sure to leave a comment below or you can share your soup by tagging @FabFood4All on social media!

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Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with Basil is incredibly quick and easy to prepare, healthy and utterly delicious!
Course dinner, entree, Lunch, Starter
Cuisine Italian, Mediterranean
Prep Time 4 minutes minutes
Cook Time 1 hour hour 3 minutes minutes
Author Camilla Hawkins

Equipment

  • Roasting tray
  • spatula
  • Large saucepan
  • Measuring jug
  • Hand blender
  • Wooden spoon

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg vine ripened tomatoes cut into 6 segments (leave whole for cherry tomatoes)
  • 2 bulbs garlic cut in half
  • 6 tablespoon olive oil
  • 900 ml vegetable stock good quality
  • 1 handful fresh basil leaves (or to taste)
  • Freshly ground salt & pepper

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180°C.
  • Place tomato segments and garlic on a baking tray and drizzle with the olive oil and season.
  • Turn the tomatoes over with a spatula to coat in the oil.
  • Roast the tomatoes and garlic for 1 hour, turning with a spatula half way through.
  • Once roasted allow the tomatoes and garlic to cool enough so that you can squeeze out the garlic cloves from their skins.
  • Place the tomatoes and garlic into a large saucepan.
  • Blitz with a handheld blender to desired consistency, chunky or smooth, you decide (or use a blender).
  • Stir in 900 ml of hot vegetable stock and freshly chop the basil and add.
  • Gently heat to serving temperature (do not boil) and adjust seasoning if necessary.
  • Serve with cheesy bread.

Video

Notes

Use the best quality ingredients you can for the best flavour!

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Comments

  1. Mette

    24/09/2024 at 7:18 pm

    Just made your tomato soup from home grown tomatoes – so easy and absolutely delicious! Very recommendable!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      25/09/2024 at 9:16 pm

      So happy to hear that Mette. Wish I had a crop of tomatoes but just have one self seeded plant with a few tomatoes this year.

      Reply
  2. Tea

    20/12/2022 at 11:34 pm

    How long do we roast the tomatoes the second time?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      21/12/2022 at 1:38 am

      Hi Tea, sorry, for some reason it was in the body of the text in the post and in the video to roast for 1 hour but not in the recipe card. All fixed now. Thank you for pointing out.

      Reply
  3. Mardell

    24/09/2022 at 3:54 am

    What do you use to reduce the acidy taste of the tomatoes?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      24/09/2022 at 9:39 pm

      Hi Mardell, have you made this soup? It’s never tasted acidy to me due to the roasting and the mellow sweetness of the roasted garlic.

      Reply
  4. Susan

    13/08/2022 at 6:12 pm

    This sounds wonderful…..
    Question: the roasted garlic skins are removed. Are the tomato skins left on and mixed in with the soup?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      14/08/2022 at 4:16 pm

      Hi Susan, yes the tomato skins are left on and blended.

      Reply
      • Susan

        19/08/2022 at 2:07 am

        thank you!

        Reply
        • Camilla

          19/08/2022 at 2:47 pm

          A pleasure Susan:-)

          Reply
  5. Hanna Long

    29/11/2021 at 12:16 pm

    I am going to try this today 🙂

    Reply
    • Camilla

      29/11/2021 at 4:08 pm

      Awesome, do let me know what you think of it:-)

      Reply
  6. Chloe

    25/10/2021 at 7:57 pm

    There is no better combination of flavours than tomato, garlic and basil – this sounds delicious!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      25/10/2021 at 10:33 pm

      You’re not wrong Chloe:-)

      Reply
  7. Cat

    22/10/2021 at 10:47 am

    I only eat homemade soup, so much nicer than anything you can buy. Love the tomato and garlic together, this will be a favourite in my house.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/10/2021 at 8:52 pm

      Thanks Cat, I’m sure you’ll love it and in your new oven!

      Reply

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