Best Cream Of Tomato Soup

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This is ultimate comfort food for me. serve with home made bread or a salad and its also great with a blt. i like leaving the skin on the tomatoes, but you can scald and remove the skins first if you want. the same goes for the potatoes--peel on is fine.

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Steps

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In a large pot cook the tomatoes , potatoes , onions , pepper , basil and tomato paste in the beef broth for 30 minutes or until very soft.

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Make the cream sauce while the vegetables are cooking.

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Over low heat add the flour to the milk and cook to thicken.

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Stir almost constantly.

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Working carefully and in small batches transfer the broth and vegetables to a blender and puree.

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This is hot do not burn yourself.

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Return to the pot and add the cream sauce.

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Stirring well.

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Adjust pepper and basil to taste.

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Ingredients

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tomato paste, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, beef broth, pepper, basil, flour, milk