I’ve never really considered making tomato soup until recently. This recipe is full of roasted garlic and tomato flavor along with the savory spiciness of the Italian sausage. This tomato soup recipe is anything but boring! For the roasting I place the garlic on top of the cut side of the tomatoes. Placing it there helps the garlic roast and allows that flavor to become better infused into the tomato. Call me crazy but it really works! I pan roasted the sausage and you can either blend it into the soup after or finely mince by hand. The soup comes together easily and it has quickly become a staple dinner recipe.
Roasted Tomato Soup with Italian Sausage
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 2
Calories 250 kcal
Ingredients
- 5 to 6 lbs roma tomatoes washed and halved
- in Handful fresh thyme sprigs finely minced or ground a spice grinder, about a dozen
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- sea salt and black pepper
- 2 tsp oregano
- 3 leaves basil chopped
- 4 or 5 cloves garlic minced
- 2 cups chicken stock or more for desired consistency
- 3 spicy Italian sausages
- 1 tsp sea salt or to taste
- freshly ground black pepper
- parmesan cheese garnish
Instructions
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Place the tomatoes cut side down on several sheet pans and drizzle with olive oil and season with sea salt and pepper.
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Bake the tomatoes in a preheated 400F oven for 40 minutes.
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After 20 minutes, flip the tomatoes and place the chopped garlic equally on all of the tomato halves.
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Meanwhile, cook the sausages in a saute pan over medium high heat for about 10-15 minutes.
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Remove the tomatoes from oven, peel off the skins when cooled slightly.
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Pour into a food processor, doing so in batches if necessary. Add the herbs and blend until pureed. If blending the sausage as well, cut into small pieces and add to the food processor.
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Transfer to a sauce pot and pour in the chicken stock and season with salt and pepper (add the minced sausage at this stage if you didn't add to the food processing step.)
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Cook on the stove, covered for about 15 minutes. Garnish with parmesan cheese.
Came home to find that my wife made this soup for dinner. Very nice! We have gobs of home grown tomatoes and fresh basil so this was a good way to use them. I suspect it would even be good if you didn’t have the sausage on hand.
That’s great to hear! Yeah it’s good as is without sausage. Without it makes for a nice lunch or side dish! Glad you guys enjoyed it 🙂