Homemade Tomato Soup (From the Pantry)

Growing and preserving your own food is a fantastic way to build your own food security, but it's also important to know how you're going to use that food. This homemade tomato soup made from the preserved food in our pantry is one of our favorite go-to recipes.

Why I Love This Recipe

The main reason I love this recipe is that it brings a taste of fresh-picked summer tomatoes any time of year.

Planting tomatoes may be the most exciting time of year. In the dead of winter, when I'm pining for a vine-ripened tomato, still warm from the sun, this soup is a fantastic stand-in.

The fact that this recipe is so frugal and tastes delicious is a win-win, much like this traditional borcht recipe, old-fashioned ham and bean soup, and creamy delicata squash soup. I love that it uses ingredients I typically already have on hand!

Ingredients Needed

You don't need many ingredients for this recipe, and store-bought equivalents will certainly do, but if you have your own home-canned tomato sauce and home-canned bone broth, the flavors will be so much better.

• Tomato Sauce - learn how to can your own tomato sauce with this recipe, or purchase a good quality tomato sauce from the grocery store (tip: a can of diced tomatoes blended in the blender until smooth will also work!)
• Bone Broth - making your own homemade bone broth is so inexpensive and very easy to do. Learning how to can that bone broth is also simple! But again, store-bought will do in a pinch.
• Salt - my alltime favorite salt is Redmond Real Salt. It's high-qualilty, and when bought in bulk you can get a really great deal (use coupon code "Pioneering" to get 15% off at checkout).
• Nutritional Yeast - this adds a great almost cheesiness to the soup, plus some extra vitamins!
• Garlic Powder & Onion Powder - Both some of the recommended pantry staples I always have on hand.
• Heavy Cream - can be freshly skimmed cream from your raw milk, or heavy cream from the grocery store, this just adds a richness and creaminess that I love in homemade tomato soup.
• Parmesan Cheese - that bit of a salty bite is to die for!
• Dried Oregano - because tomatoes and oregano go together like peanut butter and jelly!

Woodstove or Cook Stove

Whenever I make this recipe in the wintertime, we always have our woodstove burning to heat our house (it's our only heat source) so it's super simple to toss a pot on the woodstove to heat up our soup.

But you can just as easily use your regular stovetop to heat up the soup. Visit this post for more woodstove cooking tips (including how to bake a pie on the woodstove)!

Homemade Tomato Soup Recipe

1. Empty equal parts canned tomato sauce and canned bone broth into a pot (for this recipe I'm using 1 pint each).
2. Add salt, nutritional yeast, onion and garlic powder into the pot and stir to combine.
3. Place pot on the woodstove or over medium-heat on the stovetop and heat until simmering.
4. Remove from heat and stir in heavy whipping cream.
5. Serve into bowls and garnish with shredded parmesan cheese and dried oregano.

Of course, serving with marinated mozzarella balls, some warm crusty bread or a grilled cheese sandwich is a great way to go. My favorite is this No-Knead Artisan Bread Recipe that only takes 5 minutes of hands-on time!

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📖 Recipe

Homemade Tomato Soup

Melissa Norris

Get the taste of summer with this homemade tomato soup from your preserved garden tomatoes.

4.48 from 17 votes

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Servings 2 servings

Calories 217 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 2 cups tomato sauce
• ▢ 2 cups bone broth
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
• ▢ 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon onion powder
• ▢ 1/4 cup heavy cream
• ▢ parmesan cheese to taste
• ▢ oregano to taste

Instructions

 

• Empty equal parts canned tomato sauce and canned bone broth into a pot (for this recipe I'm using 1 pint each).
• Add salt, nutritional yeast, onion, and garlic powder into the pot and stir to combine.
• Place pot on the woodstove or over medium heat on the stovetop and heat until simmering.
• Remove from heat and stir in heavy whipping cream.
• Serve into bowls and garnish with shredded parmesan cheese and dried oregano.

Notes

• Nutritional calculations do not include optional parmesan and oregano.
• Ingredients can all be store-bought if you don't have them on the pantry shelf.

Nutrition

Serving: 2cupsCalories: 217kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 15gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 1967mgPotassium: 936mgFiber: 5gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 1498IUVitamin C: 18mgCalcium: 57mgIron: 3mg

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