Simple Vegan Tomato Soup
My simple vegan tomato soup from scratch is a healing recipe and easy to put together: it is steamed not roasted which makes it hydrating. This soup is low-fat with a fat-free option, salt is optional, and instead of using coconut milk for creaminess, it is made using a flavorful vegetable broth. Basil, onion, and garlic add a richer flavor profile and healing benefits.
This recipe is gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, corn-free, oil-free, and soy-free. Feel free to use this on its own as a healing recipe, or pair it with my grilled cheese recipe. If you are in the mood for a richer tomato soup recipe, check out my creamy roasted tomato soup recipe.
Let’s take a look at some of the ingredients that give this tomato soup a boost:
Garlic
Garlic has antibiotic properties and can be as effective as 100,000 units of penicillin in each of its cloves. It has anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-parasitic, and anti-fungal properties, making it ideal for staving off pathogen-caused diseases. It has sulfur compounds that also help with this. Garlic is excellent for fighting the flu, colds, pathogen-related cancers, strep, and pneumonia. This recipe has three cloves of garlic in it, but feel free to add more. Adding garlic to this soup helps boost the healing properties, especially when working with tomato, onion, and the healing broth.
Onion
Onion is a part of the allium family, and it is nature’s antibiotic. While it can remove DDT, radiation, viruses (thanks to its high levels of sulfur compounds), and heavy metals, it is also a renowned ally in combating unproductive bacterial overgrowth. If you are someone who has an upset stomach after eating onions, most likely due to the bacterial die-off due to onions’ effectiveness, know that cooking them makes their healing properties gentler.
Basil
Another anti-bacterial and anti-viral healing ingredient, basil is particularly adept and helping rid ailments in the stomach such as upset from gas, nausea, and cramps. Its anti-inflammatory properties also make it adept at soothing the lower intestinal tract from ailments such as IBS, celiac, and chrons. It is also very flavorful, as well as healing, and worth it to add to your recipes for a more dynamic flavor profile.
Tomato Soup basic (Oil-Free, Fat-Free)
Ingredients
6 – 8 tomatoes on the vine or plum tomatoes
1 large onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, crushed
6 cups vegetable broth
1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
½ cup arrowroot starch to thicken
1 tbsp coconut milk (optional)
6 – 8 leaves basil, ribboned
Sea salt to taste
Method
- Steam tomatoes in the steamer for about 20 minutes.
- Once steamed, peel the skin off the tomatoes.
- Sauté onion in 3 tbsp of vegetable broth.
- After 1 – 2 minutes add in the crushed garlic and cook for 2 – 3 minutes.
- Then add in 6 cups of vegetable broth.
- Season with black pepper and sea salt, if using.
- Using a hand blender purée the soup.
- Add in the arrowroot starch to thicken.
- Serve with a dollop of coconut milk or homemade cashew sauce. Omit if remaining fat-free.
- Garnish with chopped basil and serve hot!
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Simple Tomato Soup
Ingredients
- 6-8 Tomatoes one the vine or plum tomatoes
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
- ½ cup arrow root starch to thicken
- 6-8 basil leaves, ribboned
- Sea salt to taste
Instructions
- Steam tomatoes in the steamer for about 20 minutes.
- Once steamed, peel the skin off the tomatoes.
- Sauté onion in 3 tbsp of vegetable broth.
- After 1 - 2 minutes add in the crushed garlic and cook for 2 - 3 minutes.
- Then add in 6 cups of vegetable broth.
- Season with black pepper and sea salt, if using.
- Using a hand blender puree the soup.
- Add in the arrowroot starch to thicken.
- Serve with a dollop of coconut milk or homemade cashew sauce. Omit if remaining fat-free.
- Garnish with chopped basil and serve hot!
