Home-style Tomato Soup
My husband is the Master of Soups, and has always been one to just throw ingredients into a pot and a Polish home-style delicious soup comes out. While this isn’t most people’s typical tomato soup, it is what tomato soup means in our family. Lots of veggies and noodles!
Here is my attempt to take his most frequently used steps and non-measuring and documenting it for posterity! (Filling a pot with water until you’ve added ‘enough’ is not measuring for most of us 😉 )
What are vegeta and magi? They are ‘the secret ingredients to making every Polish soup amazing’ (direct quote from my husband). Vegeta is a vegetable bouillon powder that has become a staple in our kitchen. Magi is a condensed beef broth flavor bomb that my husband adds to everything! Use with caution, a little goes a long way.
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Tomato Soup
Equipment
- large saucepan
Ingredients
- ½ yellow onion sliced
- 1 carrot diced
- 1 celery stalk diced
- 2 15 oz cans tomato juice
- 2 Tbsp vegeta
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cups water plus more to taste
- ¾ cup noodles egg noodles or orzo preferred
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1 dash magi or to taste
- ¼ cup sour cream
Instructions
- Add butter to your saucepan and allow it to start melting over medium-high heat. Add your onion, celery, and carrot (see note) and cook until the onions are thoroughly cooked down. You would like to see a fond beginning to form on the bottom of the pan (the pan starts to turn brown but not burnt/black). This is flavor and you want to have a lot of it.
- Add tomato juice to deglaze the pan. Add vegeta. Add additional water.
- Bring the soup to a boil then reduce to a simmer. Cover and boil for at least 30 minutes.
- While the soup is simmering, remove 1-2 ladles of soup and place in a small bowl/cup. Whisk in sour cream. Pour the mixture back into the soup and stir.
- Add the noodles and cook for an additional 15-20 minutes.
- Taste the soup, add additional water, salt, and pepper as necessary. Add a dash of magi if desired.
Notes
- Regarding the onions, celery, and carrot – what you’re really searching for here is mirepoix. This is a fancy term meaning 1 part celery, 1 part carrot, and 2 parts onion. Depending on the size of your onions, carrots, and celery, you may need to adjust to get the correct ratio.
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