Dutch Oven Tomato Soup

This one pot tomato soup is a simple, flavorful recipe you’ll want to make all year long. Whether you’re using fresh summer tomatoes straight from the garden or grocery store tomatoes in the middle of winter, this homemade soup comes together easily in just one pot. It’s smooth, comforting, and full of rich tomato flavor without complicated steps.

Perfect served with a warm sourdough grilled cheese, this tomato soup makes an easy lunch or cozy weeknight dinner. It’s a reliable, family-friendly recipe that works in every season and pairs beautifully with homemade bread. Once you make it, you’ll keep coming back to it again and again.

❤️ Why You’ll Love Dutch Oven Tomato Soup

If you thought that tomato soup was easy before, I just made it a whole lot easier.

When I used to make this soup, I would roast the tomatoes on a baking sheet in the oven and then transfer it into my pot. But when I realized that the same pot I bake my sourdough in, can also roast my tomatoes for soup, it changed the game. I hope this nourishing and delicious soup simplifies your dinner or lunch menu at any point during the week, because you deserve to put your feet up and enjoy your meal. <3

🍲 Ingredients

Tomatoes – This soup can be made with a variety of tomatoes at any point during the year. Over the summer I grew Carolina Gold tomatoes in my backyard and added those in with some cherry tomatoes and it turned into the richest golden soup I’ve ever tasted. But I also make this during the winter with on the vine tomatoes that I get from the grocery store.

Onion – I prefer sweet onions, but yellow onions work great too.

Garlic – One whole garlic head

Broth – If you want to turn this soup into a super food, make homemade broth by putting a chicken carcass and veggie scraps into a pressure cooker for an hour before making the soup.

Italian seasoning – The Italian seasoning from Trader Joes is delicious.

Olive Oil – good quality olive old will boost the flavor of the soup.

Half and Half – I prefer the texture of half and half, but you can make this soup even creamier by using heavy whipping cream.

👩🍳 How to Make Dutch Oven Tomato Soup

Start by preheating your oven to 425 degrees.

Slice 8 – 9 ripe tomatoes into quarters and place in a large Dutch oven. Dice your onion into quarters and place in the Dutch oven on top of your tomato’s.

Slice the top of your garlic had off, revealing the cloves inside, and place in the middle of the Dutch oven. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with the salt and Italian seasoning.

Place the lid on the Dutch oven and put the whole thig into the oven on the lower rack. Bake for 1 hour.

Take the Dutch oven out and remove the lid, releasing the steam. It will be HOT.

Pour in the chicken broth, and with your immersion blender, give everything a rough blend so the tomatoes and onions are broken up.

Pour in the half and half and oregano, using your immersion blender again, blend everything well until you have a smooth soup.

🪄 Tips and Tricks

• If we’re having this for dinner and want to really stretch the nutritional value in the soup, make your bread and broth in the morning so it’s ready by the time you put your other ingredients together.
• Blend the tomatoes, onion and garlic together first, before adding the cream and blending again.
• If you like basil, add fresh basil into the pot after the vegetables have roasted and blend it all together for a tomato – basil soup.

🗒 Variations

I made a Carolina Gold tomato soup over the summer because of the tomatoes that were growing in the backyard. You can also add basil to make it a tomato – basil soup.

Making this in my sourdough bread bowls takes this to the next level.

• Carolina Gold Tomato Soup
• Tomato Basil Soup
• Tomato Soup Bread Bowl

🗒 Substitutions

There are a lot of substitutions you can make for this soup to cater to what you are in the mood for.

• Heavy cream can be substituted for heavy cream.
• Chicken broth can be substituted for veggie broth.
• You can use any tomatoes you want in the soup.

🗒 Best served with

• Sourdough grilled cheese
• Buttered Sourdough
• Sourdough Bread Bowl
• Tomato soup + salad

👝 How to Store Leftovers

Store this tomato soup the same way you would store any soup. Flat in a Ziplock bag stored in the freezer, or in a soup cube.

🤔 Common Questions