Beefy Tomato Soup is a warm healthy and hearty soup, ground beef, canned tomatoes. kidney beans onions. garlic. garlic powder, cumin, paprika, geef cube, salt and pepper. Days when you just need a warm pick-me up or savory companion for sick days. There are just days that you want to curl up, read a book, and fill yourself with a warm bowl of soup. A soup recipe you can do with very minimal effort.

What’s in a beefy tomato soup?

This easy fix is made of canned tomatoes, though 2 cups of freshly chopped tomatoes can do in a pinch, loaded with garlic, onions, seasonings such as paprika and cumin to give it a slight punch, a good amount of ground beef, kidney beans or ham, cooked till tender or it has changed in color, douse these with our key ingredient! Tomatoes, simmering for half an hour to help the flavors all mesh together. Pour in 2 cups of water and a beef broth cube for another 30 minutes. Once this is done, give yourself a generous helping of a nice comforting beefy tomato soup paired with rice or toasted bread.

Short History of the tomato Soup

It’s a funny story on how when the suggested ‘tomato dishes’ would be brought out, one would always think that it would probably be an Italian dish but in fact in the Colonial Times, folklore concerning the consumption of the tomato believed that it would poison your blood and turn it into acid; so most colonists used the tomato as decoration. Tomatoes we came to know today came from Peru. It was in South and Central America where tomatoes originated that started eating and using tomatoes as a source of food and was cultivated and slowly made their way to Mexico. Back then, there were even claims that tomato seeds as a source of aphrodisiac. In French, tomato seeds were called ‘pomme d’ amour’ of ‘apple of love’, but some claim that it was a misinterpretation of the Spanish ‘pome dei Moro” or ‘apple of the moors’. It’s unclear how the Spanish came across the tomato and now they bright it back to Europe, but it was in the mid 16^thcentury that the tomatoes were mentioned in a Nepalese cookbook.

The fruit known as a vegetable tomato was named so from the Spanish word ‘tomate’ from the Aztec language ‘tomatl’. The first name appearing in print in 1595. There are a variety of tomatoes from green, red, yellow colors to cherry tomatoes. One of the reasons we might always pair ‘Italy’ with ‘tomatoes’ is because aside from South America, Italy was one of the first to fully embrace the tomato.

1897 was the year Joseph Campbell a soup mogul invented the condensed tomato soup. It set a standard for the company which enticed and endeared itself to the general public. While Campbell a famous soup company made the tomato soup popular the first recipe known was credited in the 1872 book “The Appleodre Cook Book” by Maria Parloa for her tomato chowder. Canned tomato soup became idea because of their high acidic content and thus became the most canned item than any other fruit or vegetable in the 19^thcentury market.

Can I do this soup in 30 minutes or less?

As a quintessential comfort food in America, there was been a lot of ways to make this dish easier for convenience. You can cheat a little and use marinara sauce instead of adding tomatoes with garlic, onions and herbs. And since marina sauce is already well seasoned you can cut cook time in half or less and just make sure that the beef is well cooked.