What Goes Into This Recipe
The ingredients needed to make this vegan tomato soup recipe are simple items you can easily find in your local grocery store. Here’s what you will need:
- Oil: Use your favorite cooking oil to saute the veggies.
- Aromatics: Onion, carrots, celery, and garlic.
- Veggies: We’re using zucchini and mushrooms but of course, you swap them for others you have on hand and want to use up.
- Tomato: Tomato paste gives the soup a more intense tomato flavor than sauce or fresh tomatoes.
- Vegetable broth: Gives the soup more flavor than cooking in water alone.
- Herbs and seasonings: Bay leaf, thyme, salt, and pepper are all it takes to make this tomato potato soup taste amazing!
- Potato: Any type of potato works great!
Substitutions
- Prefer to skip the oil? You can cook the veggies in a bit of water instead.
- Sweet potatoes: Tomato sweet potato soup is just as tasty! It gives the soup a bit of a sweeter flavor.
- Vegetable broth: You can also use water alone and add some additional seasonings or swap the broth for your favorite veggie bouillon and water.
How To Make Tomato Soup with Potatoes
- 1) Heat the oil along with a bit of water added. Since we’re using just a touch of oil, the water helps prevent sticking.
- 2) When the oil is hot, add the onions, carrots, zucchini, mushrooms, and celery and cook until the onions are tender and translucent.
- 3) Add in the garlic and stir quickly, being careful not to burn.
- 4) Add the tomato paste, vegetable broth, bay leaf, salt, pepper, and thyme to the pot.
- 5) Stir in the potatoes and mix everything together. Turn the heat to high, so that the soup comes to a boil.
- 6) Once the soup boils, cover the pot with a lid, and reduce the heat to a low simmer.
- 7) Cook the soup for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are slightly tender.
- 8) For a smoother soup, take half the soup mixture and pour it into a high-speed blender. Allow it to blend until smooth and creamy. Then add it back to the soup pot, mixing it with the remaining soup.
- 9) Serve hot.
