Easiest Way to Make Homemade McPhee's Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup

McPhee's Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup. Cooked tomatoes and tomato juice are pureed with fresh basil leaves in this soup thickened with heavy cream. The secret to the richness of this soup is to use real butter, fresh basil leaves, and heavy cream. Please do not substitute, or you will not have the same high quality end result.

It was easy to cook and turned out to be very creamy. I created this soup while trying to duplicate one I enjoyed at a restaurant in Philadelphia. It isn't exactly right, but it's close!

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mcphee's cream of tomato and basil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Cooked tomatoes and tomato juice are pureed with fresh basil leaves in this soup thickened with heavy cream. The secret to the richness of this soup is to use real butter, fresh basil leaves, and heavy cream. Please do not substitute, or you will not have the same high quality end result.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mcphee's cream of tomato and basil soup using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make McPhee's Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup:

1. {Take 50 g of Unsalted Butter or Vegetable Oil.
2. {Prepare 100 g of White Onions - (Peeled and Diced).
3. {Make ready 4 cloves of Garlic - (Peeled and Diced).
4. {Get 100 g of Carrots - (Peeled and Diced).
5. {Take 50 g of Plain Flour.
6. {Make ready 1000 g of Fresh Tomatoes - (Eye removed and quartered).
7. {Get 1000 ml of Vegetable Stock.
8. {Prepare 1 of Bouquet Garni.
9. {Make ready 250 ml of Double Cream.
10. {Take 20 g of Fresh Basil - (Washed and Sliced).
11. {Get 2 tablespoons of Tomato Puree.
12. {Prepare of Salt and Pepper - (To taste).
13. {Make ready of To Finish.
14. {Make ready 1 slice of white or wholemeal bread - crust removed and diced.
15. {Get of Cream - (To finish).
16. {Get of Fresh Basil - (to garnish).

Stir in the cream, sherry or additional broth, basil and sugar. This creamy tomato - basil soup hits the spot, especially with a side of extra-gooey grilled cheese. Just picked a lot of tomatoes and fresh basil from the garden this morning. After I oven-roast the tomatoes (it concentrates their flavor), I will use them to make this delicious sounding soup for dinner.

Steps to make McPhee's Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup:

1. Heat the butter or oil in a thick-bottomed pot or soup pot. Once the fat is bubbling, add diced onions, carrots and garlic. Sweat them off for about 5 minutes until soften and lightly browned..
2. Add the Fresh tomatoes and cook them for 5 minutes until soften..
3. Mix in the flour and tomato puree and cook to a sandy texture..
4. Gradully add the veg stock into the pot and stir to the boil. - (If the colour of the soup is lacking, add some more tomato puree soon after it has come to the boil).
5. Add the bouquet garni and season lightly with salt and pepper. Leave the soup to simmer on low heat for approximately 1 hour and skim when it's neccesery. - (If the soup is thickening during the simmering process add some water or stock)..
6. After simmering for a hour remove the bouquet garni from the soup and discard. Liquidise the soup in a food processor or a hand blender until smooth. Return the soup to the hob in a clean pot..
7. Gradulally add the double cream and the basil, mix throughtly until it's combined. Then fix the seasoning with tomato puree, salt and pepper until you're happy with the flavour and texture..
8. For Croutons: trim off the crusts from the bread slices and discard them. Cut the remaining crustless bread slices into small squares..
9. Next placee the diced bread into the deep fryer and fry them until golden brown..
10. Once the croutons had deep-fried. place them onto a tray with some kitchen roll to all of the grease off. Then Season the croutons with salt and a little bit of pepper - (but not too much pepper or else everybody at the dinner table will be sneezing all day long LOL :) Mix them in throughly with seasoning..
11. Plate up the soup with the croutons on top, enjoy :).
12. Presentation Tips: make a swirl on top of the soup with double cream, sparkle on the basil neatly and then place about - (5-7 small croutons) to finish the soup off Enjoy :).

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