Super Tasty Tomato Soup for Your Vitamix (no extra cooking!)
Who doesn’t get excited about delicious, homemade soups?
But you want hassle-free, right? No extra cooking.
Well, this tomato soup is just that. Great on its own or next to a sexy sandwich.
Try this tomato soup recipe today. It’s vegan, made for your Vitamix, and is absolutely delicious.
This Tomato Soup Tastes Like Childhood (but so much better in every way)
When you think of tomato soup, you probably think “can-opener”. Most of us were raised with the classic can of Campbell’s soup. Usually accompanied by a grilled cheese sandwich, it was the perfect childhood combo.
This meal was great because it was rich, warm, and really basic. One thing it wasn’t though? Healthy.
Without going into the lack of nutrition in a grilled cheese sandwich, let’s concentrate on the soup itself.
One of the first ingredients is high fructose corn syrup. So it’s already not something we want in our cupboards. The main ingredients are mostly carbohydrates (the majority of which come from simple sugars). It lacks protein, fiber, and is high in sodium.
So no, a can of tomato soup is not “healthy”.
What is healthy though is homemade tomato soup!
Tomatoes are packed with nutrition. If you can control the other ingredients, you can make yourself a healthy (and tasty) bowl of tomato soup pretty easily.
We were so excited to see a tomato soup recipe in the cookbook that came with our Vitamix. Fresh ingredients, real tomatoes, no additives.
That was until we saw that a bullion cube was part of the recipe. Those things seem innocent, but they’ve got MSG, caramel coloring, and palm oil. No, thank you!
So we made a nearly identical recipe minus the cube and plus some flavor.
(Tomato soup ingredients in the Ascent Series we’re playing with, an A3500.)
Go make this healthier take on the classic tomato soup. Once you’ve mastered it, move on to our other vegan Vitamix soups!
Other Noteworthy Versions
- Vitamix.com: Thyme for Tomato Soup
Recipe
Fancy Vitamix Tomato Soup
A healthy (and vegan) take on the classic tomato soup. A great Vitamix recipe.
Carrots, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Thyme, Tomato Paste,Ingredients:
- water - 1.5 cups (360 mL)
- diced tomatoes - 1 can (410 g)
- roma tomatoes - 2 halved
- carrot - medium halved (or 8 baby carrots)
- sun-dried tomatoes (drained) - 1/2 of an 8.5 oz jar (70 g)
- onion - 1.5 Tbsp. (15 g)
- garlic clove - 1 clove
- thyme (fresh) - 1.5 Tbsp.
- tomato paste - 1 Tbsp.
- flax meal - 1 tsp.
- milk of your choice (we use unsweetened almond) - 1/2 cup
- salt & pepper - to taste
Instructions:
BLEND
- Add ingredients into Vitamix container in order listed
- Blend on high for 6 minutes or use soup setting
- Pour into bowls and serve with toast
- Snap a pic and tag #lifeisNOYOKE
- Enjoy!
Useful tips for Fancy Vitamix Tomato Soup
A little onion goes a long way, remember that raw onions are much more flavorful than cooked ones.
Use fresh herbs whenever possible, but if you don’t have ’em substitute dried.
This is tomato soup. Meaning it’s best served with a toasty piece of bread. That texture makes all the difference!
And the garnish. Your food tastes only as good as it looks.
Clarification: We used half of this jar (less the oil). Was about 2.5 oz of dry weight.
YUM! Made it just like the recipe and it is perfect! I will be making this delicious and healthy tomato soup often. One of those foods I could probably eat every day!
Yay! So glad it’s earned it’s spot in your rotation 🙂
Just made this tonight, a cold and rainy evening. I skipped the romas, used about 1 tsp dried thyme, extra garlic, about a 2×2” cube of red onion, whole cow’s milk, Celtic salt and red pepper flakes. Topped with toasted pepitas and chopped cilantro. It was fantastic! My first vitamix soup ever. Thank you!
Great additions, sounds super good 🙂
I made this soup, and I really loved it. I thought it tasted fresh, and the different flavors of the fresh ingredients came through. I did not find it too acidic at all. It was a very good, very easy soup to make. Perfect for weeknights with a grilled cheese!
Agreed, it’s the perfect compliment to a grilled cheese 🙂
how many ounces does this make? no number of servings on recipe thanks
Makes 4 servings.
MSG is not a bad ingredient by the way.
We just like to keep our sodium levels down on homemade meals.
I made this today and loved it! I think the sun-dried tomatoes and fresh thyme from my garden were definitely the secret ingredients. I didn’t put enough salt in it when I blended it but that was easily remedied at the table. I used homemade unfiltered organic coconut milk. The sun-dried tomatoes were also homemade; dried last season and reconstituted overnight just to make this soup. After it was done (using the soup setting) I ran the blender on speed 1 for about 30 seconds to de-froth it. (A tip that I got from one of your other videos.)
Love all of these things that made this soup perfect for you. Garden ingredients always make for the best blends.
I added fresh basil to mine as well then chopped up some more basil to put on top. Overall the recipe was great!!
Yum! Kind of a bruschetta take on the recipe. Love it.
Loved this recipe and so did my husband. Used fresh cherry tomatoes for all tomatoes and used a bit of truffle oil on top. Perfect and delicious. Did not find it too acidic.
Truffle oil would make anything taste good 😂
I’m sorry to leave this bad review, but the other commenters talking about the acidity were correct. Not only that, it was just all around a bad tomato soup. It made my vegan grilled cheese taste bad when I dipped it into it and that is a hard thing to do! lol My partner and I tried to salvage it, but sadly it was too far gone. Even if we were able to get it to taste good (which we weren’t) The soup must blend for so long that is becomes frothy and not like how a soup should be, liquidy or creamy in consistency. Turning it down to low speed for a long time didn’t make it any less frothy. It was all around unpleasant. I think this recipe needs major tweaking.
So sorry you didn’t enjoy the soup. It’s certainly a polarizing recipe as you can see from the comments.
We have the explorian which has a smaller jug. I found I had to increase the time but besides that yum!
Good to know, thanks!
Please learn from my rookie mistake. For the love of tomato soup everywhere, do NOT substitue dry thyme in equal measure to fresh thyme.
Fair enough, haha!
Chose this recipe as the first ever soup I made in my new vitamix and it came out amazing! It was very flavorful and I loved how easy the recipe was to follow. Cannot wait to keep making more recipes from you guys.
So happy to hear that, Yanhel!
Hi!
Do you think adding more canned tomatoes would work instead of the fresh roma tomatoes? I love having recipes around that only need pantry staples to cook up in a pinch when fresh ingredients are running low.
Thank you!
Yes, I think that would work just fine.
Yum thank you!! I added some vegan sour cream, pinch of sugar, salt, and some butter. Delicious!!
Those sound like excellent additions 🙂
I am concerned about hot soup and the lid popping off – but in the video you just push start and walked away. Do we not need to standby with a towel over the lid?
Thanks! Excited to try this!
If you’ve got a Vitamix you can just walk away! The lid is vented so the steam has a place to escape. Have never had a lid come off or even leak while making soup in 5+ years.
Tried this recipe out, tasted delicious!
So glad you liked it, John 👍
Add sugar or honey. A little sweetener will cut the acid. If that’s not enough, try adding a little lemon juice.
Great ideas, Eliz, thanks! 🙏
“Blend on high for 6 minutes” – Does this mean I can blend on highest speed for 6 minutes continuously or in intervals?
Continuously! The friction is what “heats” the soup.
I just made this and it’s too acidic. Can you suggest a remedy?
Our Wild Rice is a great soup substitute: https://lifeisnoyoke.com/wild-rice-soup/
Hi Maura, there’s some comments below from others who felt it was too acidic for their taste. Some of them have recommendations that you may find helpful.
Are use about a cup of cashew milk in mine, that seems to cut the acidity.
Great idea, Patti.
This was my first time making soup in vitamix. It turned out yummy. I added basil and Italian seasoning. MY teenage son who doesn’t like tomato soup. I told him to try it and he loved it too. flavors were great. I highly recommend making this.
Nice! We love it when people who don’t like something try again and like it 🙂
Nicole, I don’t mean to be rude by any means, only helpful so I need to mention first off that it’s not “mine and my husband’s taste’s”. The proper way to say that is my and my husband’s taste’s (you would never say the soup was much too acidic for mine taste bc that make zero sense). In terms of the acid use could add a pinch of baking soda & then taste it as you go then add more if need be until you get rid of the extra acid taste. Or you can simply add a teaspoon of Butter. Perhaps do both but I suggest that you keep the recipe as is but add one or both of my suggestions to reduce the acid taste.
We’ve considered adding a bit of vegan butter (we like Miyokos) to cut some of the acid. Will report back next time we try it.
Recipes and grammar advice too!
I don’t mean to be rude, but your first sentence is a run on sentence. 😉