Italian Tomato Bisque Recipes

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, saute garlic in butter for 1 minute. Stir in flour until blended; gradually add chicken broth. Stir in tomato paste and cayenne until well blended. , Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; gradually stir in cream. (Do not boil.) Garnish with chopped tomatoes if desired.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion and celery with a pinch of salt until onion is translucent, 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Pour chicken broth and tomatoes into onion mixture. Bring to a simmer and season with paprika, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Turn heat to low and stir rice into soup; skim foam occasionally and simmer until rice and vegetables are very tender, 35 to 45 minutes. Add sugar.
• Blend soup with an immersion blender in the pot until smooth. Whisk 1/2 cup cream into soup and adjust levels of salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, and sugar. If soup is too thick, add more broth; if soup is too thin, cook, stirring often, until reduced and slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Ladle into warmed bowls; garnish each bowl with a drizzle of cream and top with about 1 teaspoon chopped basil.

Steps:

• Melt the butter with the oil over low heat in a heavy bottom pot.
• Add the onion; wilt over low heat for 8 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic during the last 2 minutes, stirring.
• Add the tomatoes and broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cover; cook over medium-low heat for 60 minutes. Season with oregano, salt, and pepper.
• Add basil. Stir in the cream or half & half, simmer for another 30 minutes.
• Garnish with fresh basil before serving.
• Note: When tomatoes are in-season use fresh tomatoes, blanch for 8 minutes and process with food processor. In the winter, use a San Marzano-type canned tomato, drain half of the liquid and process in food processor.

Steps:

• 1. Blanch the tomatoes until skin comes loose, then skin, seed, and chop coarsely.
• 2. Saute onion in butter a few minutes, then add all ingredients except the milk and cream; simmer for about 25 minutes, and remove the cloves.
• 3. Transfer to a blender or food processor, and puree.
• 4. Add half and half, and the milk - (If preparing before-hand, put aside in the refrigerator at this point).
• 5. Heat up in a sauce pan and sprinkle chives on top before serving.

Steps:

• 1. Bake squash upside down on cookie sheet. Cool.
• 2. In large pot, saute onions, red pepper and garlic until onions and peppers are soft.
• 3. Dip Tomatoes in boiling water; peel & core and cut up in chunks.
• 4. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, chicken stock, basil and thyme. (I couldn't find tomato paste with roasted garlic, so roasted some in the oven and added to the tomato paste)
• 5. Peel and Cut cooled butternut squash in chunks and add to pot.
• 6. Bring to a boil; then simmer for 35 minutes, stirring often.
• 7. Puree in blender or food processor and return to pot. Splash in the Tobasco, salt and pepper and stir in the cream.
• 8. FOR CANNING: Do not add the cream! Process quarts for 30 minutes at 10 lb. in presssure cooker. We used this recipe, multiplied by 10, and got 21 quarts. (plus some left over to sample!) When serving, heat the soup first and then stir in cream before serving.