Creamy tomato soup

Absolutely fantastic recipe!! I'm in love with it! It turned out SO GOOD! I changed a bit the proportions - half the potatoes and only 300ml milk. Also I used parsnip, because I couldn't find celery sticks. Highly recommended recipe :)

I have just made a batch of this soup for all my family. They all thoroughly enjoyed it, including my eldest daughter, who is a very fussy eater and only likes Heinz tomato soup! She said it was the best soup and beats Heinz. I feel happy that they have all had good food inside them! I will certainly be cooking it again. I did add basil, Worcester sauce and some oregano.

Very easy to make, doesn't take long if you use the food processor to chop the veg. Well, my fussy other half loves the tinned stuff so thought I'd give this a go - he was reluctant to even try it, but I put on 'the face' so he put the tiniest amount on his spoon, then the spoon went in again and again and his face was beaming! Apparently the texture isn't quite the same (I did blend it and then blend it again as this fussy eater will not eat anything with lumps!) but the taste is just as good as the tinned variety! Didn't put the milk in quite yet, but will put a drop in when he's having it for lunch tomorrow, I bought whole milk especially. I was told there was a bit of a different after taste to it - we think it may be the celery as we do not usually eat celery, so will leave it out the next time to see how it is without, however he still likes it as is. I didn't taste this as I don't particularly like tomato soup in general, but my most frustratingly-fussy other half gives it 5 stars! Halved the recipe just in case the fussy eater didn't like it, and it gave us 6 & 1/2 of our usual portions so I just spread the 1/2 equally between the six portions - I usually give us 2 ladles each of soup for lunch.

Love this soup - calorie friendly, but also really delicious and filling. I usually half the recipe quantities and find that gives me 6 adult portions.

This has to be the closest tasting Tomato soup to Heinz that I have ever tasted. Amazing.

Lovely , very easy to make and would also work as a pasta sauce .

Tried this tonight, use a quarter of the quantities. Still made enough with some leftovers. I added fresh basil and oregano just before the tomatoes went in. Very tasty, but still need to work on the quantity of herbs to get the flavour I am looking for.

Have been looking for a tomato soup recipe for ages as a replacement to the tinned variety. Being an ex-pat, it's not always easy, or financially sensible, to get hold of the already made heat it and eat it type of food and I enjoy cooking anyway so was keen to try this. A great recipe. I reduced all the ingredients to the nth degree because 6 adults and 6 kids is one hell of a family size and I need quantities for 3-4 people, not 12. Much better option than the tinned as it's healthier, tastier and I can dole out the portions i want and not have 1/3rd of a tin left over and thrown away. Will most certainly do again.