The Best Tomato Soup Recipes

Tomato soup is rightly a classic, but can be so much more than the canned cream of tomato that we all remember from childhood. Whether you have a summer glut or a handy can, these fabulous tomato soup recipes are all your need.

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Tomato soup

Tomato soup is surely one of everyone’s childhood favourites. Who doesn’t remember tucking into a big bowl of the ubiquitous smooth orange liquid that came out of a can marked Heinz or Campbells, like the Andy Warhol painting?

A spread of tomatoes, cut and uncut, in different varieties and colours

These brands are so strongly associated with tomato soup that you can actually buy tomato seed varieties named after them. There’s so much more to tomato soup, though, than that classic cream soup in a can.

Best tomato soup recipes

Tomato soups can be light or rich, smooth or chunky, hot or cold. Many of my favourite recipes for tomato soup reflect a healthy Mediterranean diet – light, summery and delicious.

Read on for some of my favourite ideas for using up that tomato glut, from comfort food to dinner party style and everything in between.

Comforting tomato soups

These soothing tomato soup recipes produce soup that is warming and satisfying, easy to make and always good for you.

Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato and Lentil Soup

Fabulous Mediterranean flavours combined with earthy lentils for a substantial, protein-packed meal in a bowl that is as tasty as it is nourishing. This soup will keep you going all day, or satisfy when you come home ravenous.

A close-up of Instant Pot dump and start soup in a blue bowl.

Easy Presssure Cooker Tomato Soup

This oh-so-easy 'dump and start' recipe makes great use of canned plum tomatoes for a delicious tomato soup recipe that you can make whenever you want. Dairy free but full of body, it's a deliciously simple recipe that's all about the tomatoes.

Garnished with seeds and fresh herbs, this vibrant tomato soup brings a little sunshine to your lunch break.

Easy Soup Maker Tomato Soup

This easy recipe for the soup maker is packed full of intense flavour, with a concentrated tomato punch from the addition of fabulous sun dried tomatoes. Sunshine in a bowl.

Pappa al Pomodoro

The classic Tuscan bread and tomato soup, a timeless recipe that is such a favourite in Italy that they even wrote a song about it. Viva la Pappa col Pomodoro!

Slow Cooker Tomato Soup

A rich and full flavoured soup with plenty of extra veg. Leave it to cook while you get on with other things. Delicious served hot or chilled.

Summer tomato soups

Light and fresh, these tomato soup recipes are great for summer, and any time you want to recapture that summer feeling.

Easy Gazpacho Soup

This traditional Andalusian dish is perfectly refreshing for hot summer days. The most famous chilled soup, it is fresh and light and so easy to make with canned tomatoes.

Leftover Salad Soup

If you find your fridge full of leftover salad vegetables, your first thought may not normally be to make soup with them. This lovely salad soup is light and unusual, full of subtle flavours that will make you want to cook it again and again.

Stylish tomato soups

I am happy to share any of my lovely soups with friends. These ones, however, make a special impact when you are entertaining.

Tomato Tea

The pure juice of the tomato is not red but perfectly clear and full of stunning flavour.

This refined tomato 'tea' looks like something you might be served as an appetizer in the grandest of restaurants. You do need to allow time to make it, but it is hands-off time for filtering and this is a recipe that anyone can make.

Guaranteed to make an impression!