Homemade Creamy Tomato Soup

Since we had a snow day today, I made us some Homemade Creamy Tomato Soup with Snowman whole wheat grilled cheese sammies!! The soup was a big hit with everyone {even me & I HATE tomatoes!!}.

These are the ingredients you'll need {I forgot to add the flour in the picture}.

 

Dice your celery & onions, really fine!!

 

Sautee your veggies in 3 TBSP butter until they're tender.

 

When your veggies are tender, add 3TBSP of flour and combine VERY well.

 

 

Once you've gotten the flour combined with the veggies, slowly add in the milk.

 

Next, add in your salt, sugar & pepper. Combine very well!

Let your milk/veggie mix boil and thicken.

 

While your milk mixture boils and thicken, puree your canned tomatoes.

 

Once you've gotten your tomatoes pureed, add them into the milk mixture.

Mix very well and let all ingredients combine and heat through.

 

 

 

Easy Creamy Tomato Soup (via Southernfood)

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 c. chopped onion (I used 1/4 of an onion)
• 1/4 c. chopped celery (I used 1 stalk of celery)
• 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 3 cups milk (I used 2 1/2)
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 2 (14.5oz) cans diced tomatoes, undrained (I used 1 large can)

 

DIRECTIONS:

 

Heat butter in a Dutch oven. Add chopped onion and celery; cook, stirring, until tender. Stir flour into veggie mix, stirring until well incorporated. Slowly stir in milk and add the sugar, salt, and pepper. Continue to heat, stirring, until the mixture thickens and begins to boil.

 

Puree tomatoes in a blender. Heat tomatoes in a separate sauce pan (I add directly to my milk mix) and gradually add them to the first mixture, stirring constantly. If desired, garnish with freshly grated parmesan cheese or fresh chopped basil leaves!!