Name: Homemade Tomato Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
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)

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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.

Up close shot of a bowl of tomato soup with a loaf of bread in the background.

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!

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)!

Pouring a jar of bone broth into a pot with tomato sauce.

A dish with seasonings to flavor tomato soup.

Homemade Tomato Soup Recipe

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.

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!

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