Recipe of Tomato Cheese Soup - Food Recipes

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Tomato Cheese Soup

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Serving Size : 12
Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups

Ingredients - Preparation Method:

28 Oz Cans Tomatoes Undrained And Chopped 2 T Butter 2 Ea Stalks of celery diced 2 Ea Cloves of garlic, minced 1/2 Ea Sweet red pepper diced 2 T Butter 1/2 Lb Mushrooms, chopped 1 Ea Large cooking onion diced 2 T Flour 1 T White sugar 8 C Beef stock 1/2 T Basil 1/2 T Rosemary 1/2 T Thyme 3 Oz Cream cheese 1 Ea Salt and pepper to taste 1 Ea Parsley for garnish Place the tomatoes, with juice, in a buttered oven-proof baking dish. Add the celery, garlic and red pepper and cover and bake in a 325 degree oven for 25 minutes. Saute the mushrooms and onion in the second batch of butter in a large stock pot for about 8 minutes. While stirring, slowly add the flour and sugar, blending until mixture is very smooth. Add the stock, basil, rosemary and thyme, stirring until soup comes to a boil. Add the contents of the baked tomato pan from the oven and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer the soup for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, in a food processor, blend the cream cheese, salt and pepper until smooth. Slowly stir the cream cheese into the soup. Garnish with chopped parsley.
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