Winter tomato bisque - country living
Yield: 8 Servings
Ingredients:
- 2 tb Butter or margarine
- 1 lg Onion chopped
- 1/3 c Unsifted all-purpose flour
- 2 ts Dried tarragon or savory -leaves
- 1/4 ts Salt
- 1/4 ts Ground black pepper
- 1 cn (10 1/2-oz) condensed -chicken broth
- 1 c Water
- 1/3 c Dried tomato bits or 8 -dried plum tomato halves -chopped (see Note)
- 1 lb Ripe tomatoes (see Note)
- 1 cn (11 1/8-oz) condensed -Italian tomato soup or -1 10 3/4-oz can condensed -tomato soup
- 2 1/2 c Milk
- 1/2 c Half-and-half
Instructions:
Chopped fresh tarragon or -savory leaves and sprigs -(opt.) 1. In 4-quart saucepan melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and saute until tender. Stir flour tarragon salt and pepper into onion until well mixed. Gradually stir in undiluted broth and water until well combined. Add tomato bits and heat mixture to boiling stirring constantly. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer soup 10 minutes stirring occasionally. 2. Meanwhile peel seed and dice tomatoes. Stir undiluted tomato soup milk and half-and-half into soup until well mixed. Increase heat to medium-high and heat soup until bubbles appear around side of pan. Do not boil. Stir in diced tomatoes and heat through. Ladle soup into bowls. If desired sprinkle soup with chopped herbs and place bowls onto plates garnished with sprigs of herbs. Note: Dried tomato bits or halves are available in the produce section of most major supermarkets. For several free dried-tomato recipe booklets write Timber Crest Farms Dried Tomato Ideas 4791 Dry Creek Road Healdsburg Calif. 95448. Include a self-addressed stamped large envelope (SASE). For recipes using fresh tomatoes in salads stews and casseroles send a SASE to Favorite Tomato Recipes Florida Tomato Committee Box 140533 Suite CL Orlando Fla. 32814-0533. Country Living/December/92 Scanned & fixed by Di Pahl &
