Creamy Halloween Tomato Soup with Meatballs

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Creamy Halloween Tomato Soup with Meatballs

This creamy Halloween tomato soup with meatballs is soft, thick, and economical. It's incredibly easy to prepare, has only SIX ingredients, and has so much flavor. Use tomato paste and sieved tomatoes for the flavorful tomato paste. The spiderweb, prepared for Halloween, is made with sour cream (and very simple to draft).

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Servings persons

Calories 458 kcal

Equipment

Soup pot
Piping bottle or piping bag

Ingredients

▢ ½ stick butter
▢ ½ cup all-purpose flour
▢ 4 cups beef broth or vegetable broth, room temperature
▢ 4 tablespoons tomato paste
▢ 4 cups sieved tomatoes
▢ salt and pepper to the taste
▢ ½ pound ground beef optional
▢ ½ cup sour cream room temperature

Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic

Instructions

Prepare the creamy tomato soup

Melt the butter over low heat.
½ stick butter
Add the flour at once while stirring with a wooden spatula.
½ cup all-purpose flour
Fry the flour for 2 minutes; keep stirring, but don't let it brown.
Gradually add the broth while stirring with a whisk, so you don't get any lumps.
4 cups beef broth
When all the broth is added, bring it to a boil.
In a frying pan, bake the tomato paste for 2 minutes (until it smells sweet rather than acidic).
4 tablespoons tomato paste
Add the tomato paste to the broth and pour the sieved tomatoes into the pan.
4 cups sieved tomatoes
Bring everything to a boil again and simmer for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
salt and pepper

Optional add meatballs

Add the ground beef balls to the soup. Simmer for 15 minutes, so the meat gets done.
½ pound ground beef

Draw a spider web

Ladle the soup into a bowl and take the sour cream, and put a drip in the middle. Draw circles around the center.
½ cup sour cream
Take a satay skewer and draw lines from the inside out, so you'll get a spider web.

NOTES

1. Vegetarian / with Beef - This creamy tomato soup can be great as a vegetarian soup (without meatballs); use a vegetable broth base. If you want to eat it with meatballs, then a beef broth base would be delicious. If you make a vegetarian creamy tomato soup, you can add sliced sun dried tomatoes as a filling.

2. Roux tips - For this soup, you make a roux. When you make a roux, one of the most important things you need to consider is having a hot and cold ingredient when diluting, so no lumps are caused. Let the butter/flour mixture cool and add hot broth or add cold broth to the hot butter/flour mixture.

3. Tomato paste - Bake the tomato paste for two minutes. Therefore, the paste becomes sweeter (instead of sour). You can smell it (the paste will smell sweeter).

4. Sour cream - Take the sour cream for 15 minutes before decorating from the refrigerator. That way, it becomes more fluid, and you can draw the spider web more easily.

5. Storage

Refrigerator - In the fridge, the soup got a shelf life of 2 days. Make sure you cool down the soup quickly before storing it.
Freezer - Freeze the soup for a maximum of 3 months.

6. The nutritional values shown are per person, including the sour cream garnish (assuming four servings come out of the soup).

Nutrition

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