Cheesy Chipotle Tomato Soup

Cheesy Chipotle Tomato Soup is a light and spicy vegetarian dinner bursting with bold flavors. It’s an easy 15 minute recipe with only 6 simple ingredients.

Easy Spicy Tomato Soup

Growing up I never liked tomato soup. To be fair it was the sweet canned Campbell’s condensed version of the classic. As I have grown up, I realized how amazing tomato soup can be.

It all started when I was working at the Green Mill and they served a delicious tomato bisque. From then on, I have enjoyed experimenting with different versions of homemade tomatoes soup.

From Creamy Garden Tomato Soup made in your pressure cooker and easy Blender Tomato Soup to Chicken tomato soup with mushrooms or this Cheesy Chipotle Tomato Soup, the possibilities are endless.

• Creamy Garden Tomato Soup

Garden tomatoes or canned?

While garden fresh tomatoes are amazing in tomato soup or dishes like this Fresh tomato basil burratta salad, diced tomatoes work well in in soup as well. When they aren’t in season, my favorite is fire roasted diced tomatoes for added flavor.

You can used plain diced tomatoes but they really don’t add the same flavor that the fire roasted ones do. I use them in everything from this Cheesy Taco Pasta Skillet to Sausage Stuffed Pepper Skillet.

• Fresh tomato basil burratta salad
• Cheesy Taco Pasta Skillet
• Sausage Stuffed Pepper Skillet

How to make easy tomato soup?

It really doesn’t get much simpler to make this soup. It only requires 6 simple ingredients, that you may likely have on hand already.

To get started, in a large pot or dutch oven saute onions in a drizzle of oil.

Once the onions are translucent, add the diced tomatoes with juice, broth and chipotles in adobo. Don’t skip the chipotles because this is where the real flavor and spice comes from!

Cook for another 5 minutes and then using a immersion blender, blend the soup in the pot until it is smooth and creamy.

Turn off the heat and stir in the whole milk.

Serve topped with freshly grated sharp cheddar and a side of crusty bread for an amazing meatless meal!

What to serve with tomato soup?

Everyone has their personal preference for a good carb to be served with tomato soup. There is the classic cracker option which you can’t go wrong with of course.

Some people get creative and make grilled cheese croutons to top their soup. I for one just keep it simple and whip up a buttery grilled cheese to dunk in my soup.

My all-time favorite though is a good crusty loaf of bread. I have been making homemade sourdough bread since this whole lockdown started and am obsessed!

I have made homemade bread in the past, but frankly it was more kneading and effort than I wanted to put into bread. Sourdough bread was the perfect answer. It is soooo easy to make once you get the techinque down and really just requires time for the natural yeast to rise.

The best part of all about sourdough is that it is one of the healthiest breads you can eat with it’s natural fermentation that takes place.

If you don’t have 24 hours to whip up a crusty loaf of sourdough, any crusty bread at the store will do.

What kind of cheese should I use on tomato soup?

For this soup, I top it with freshly grated sharp cheddar. While you can use pre-shredded cheese, it definitely isn’t ideal. Taking those extra 2 minutes to shred a block of cheese is totally worth it!

Other cheese that would be amazing on this soup include Parmesan, Provolone or Manchego. There really isn’t a cheese that wouldn’t go great with this Cheesy Chipotle Tomato Soup.

More amazing vegetarian soup recipes!

Slow Cooker Pasta E Fagioli Soup

• Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Soup
• Healthy Crock Pot Taco Soup
• Pressure Cooker Creamy Carrot Soup

Serving: 1 g | Calories: 448 kcal | Carbohydrates: 27 g | Protein: 28 g | Fat: 26 g | Saturated Fat: 14 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 10 g | Cholesterol: 103 mg | Sodium: 841 mg | Fiber: 3 g | Sugar: 22 g