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Two bowls of tomato soup with a loaf of bread and a jar of tomato sauce beside it.

Homemade Tomato Soup (From the Pantry)

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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.

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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.

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.

Ingredients for homemade tomato soup. Canned tomato sauce, bone broth and seasonings.

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!
Tomato soup heating on a woodstove.

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)!

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Seasonings in a pot with tomato soup ingredients.

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.
A woman's hands measuring cream into tomato soup.
A woman's hands whisking cream into a pot of tomato soup.

Of course, serving 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!

Did you make this recipe? I'd love for you to let me know how it went for you by leaving a comment below, then leave a star rating on the recipe card! Snap a photo of your tomato soup and tag me on social media so I can see @melissaknorris. I love seeing what all you Pioneers are up to!

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Homemade Tomato Soup

Melissa Norris
Get the taste of summer with this homemade tomato soup from your preserved garden tomatoes.
4.39 from 13 votes
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Servings 2 servings
Calories 217 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 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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Melissa Norris

Melissa K. Norris inspires people's faith and pioneer roots with her books, podcast, and blog. Melissa lives with her husband and two children in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. When she's not wrangling chickens and cattle, you can find her stuffing Mason jars with homegrown food and playing with flour and sugar in the kitchen.

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Comments:

  1. Golda

    12 months ago

    That is a lot of sodium. Where does it all come from?

    Reply
    • Melissa

      12 months ago

      The software adds what store bought broth and sauce would have in it to the calculations, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt for 4 cups isn’t that much. My homemade broth and soup don’t contain the same salt as store bought because homemade is more flavorful on its own

      Reply
  2. Laura

    12 months ago

    5 stars
    If I left out the cream, could I can this? If so for how long. Would love to have in the pantry for the grandkids.

    Reply
    • Heidi Gendron

      12 months ago

      5 stars
      Yes, you could definitely can this without the cream. However, because of the bone broth, water bath canning it would be a bad idea. I would pressure can it for broth times for safety.

      Reply
  3. Kim

    12 months ago

    I would love to know if this could be canned as well.

    Reply
  4. Sharon

    12 months ago

    5 stars
    I saw this and was interested. Much to my surprise, the next morning my 94 yr old mom ask me if I knew of a recipe for homemade tomato soup. Well yes I did. We made it and we both enjoyed it. Mom said no need to by that canned soup any more. Win, Win. Thank you for sharing

    Reply
    • Melissa Norris

      12 months ago

      Love the timing of this! So glad you guys enjoyed it

      Reply
    • Jill Pirhalla

      11 months ago

      Thank you!!
      I love tomato soup. However with a recent diagnosis of several food allergies I had to stop buying tomato soup in the store.
      Your recipe is fantastic and easy to make!
      I am back to enjoying my favorite soup!
      Thank you again!

      Reply
  5. Silke

    12 months ago

    Could I leave the nutritional yeast out or could you substitute it for something else?

    Reply
    • Melissa Norris

      12 months ago

      Absolutely, just omit it and add extra cheese 🙂

      Reply
  6. Sam

    10 months ago

    Hi Melissa, what alternate flavourings could you use? I can’t use garlic or onion powder (sensitivities) and worried the soup might be a bit bland without a substitute. Thanks

    Reply
    • Melissa Norris

      10 months ago

      You could use more herbs (basil, rosemary, oregano, etc.)

      Reply

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