Easy Tomato Soup Served with Grilled Cheese Croutons – Recipe – Old Salt Merchants

Easy Tomato Soup Served with Grilled Cheese Croutons – Recipe – Old Salt Merchants

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For a quick and easy meal, we like to serve a warm bowl of tomato soup with a hearty grilled cheese sandwich.  We typically slow roast garden tomatoes with chicken stock for hours.  But if you're...

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Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 large thinly sliced onion
  • 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 5 large fresh basil leaves
  • 1 pinch of saffron
  • 1 (28 ounces) can of the whole tomatoes in their juice or use your slow-roasted version
  • 2 cups chicken stock (if you followed the classic roasted chicken recipe, you can use the stock you made from that carcass)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Old Salt Merchants Sweet Onion Sugar
  • Fresh Pepper
  • Old Salt Merchants Black Lava Salt
  • 1.2 cup heavy cream (optional)
  • Top with grated Gruyère
  • GRILLED CHEESE CROUTONS
  • 4 (½-inch-thick) slices country white bread
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 4 ounces Gruyère cheese, grated

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