More Tomato Sauce Substitutes

An easily available substitute is tomato ketchup. For ¾ cup tomato sauce and 1 cup water, 2 cups of tomato ketchup can be used. Although not so commonly used, tomato soup serves as a great substitute. In fact, 1 can (10¾ oz) of tomato soup can substitute 1 cup of tomato sauce plus ¼ cup of water.

Both products start with tomatoes. The sauce consists of chunky tomatoes cooked with garlic and herbs. Tomato soup, on the other hand, is either broth or milk based, with pureed tomatoes, salt and pepper. It can also be prepared with aromatics like celery, carrots or bay leaves.

• Ketchup: Use 1 cup of ketchup in place of 1 cup of tomato sauce. Add spices to tweak the flavor as needed. A bit of basil is a good choice.
• Tomato Soup: Add a 10 3/4-ounce can of tomato soup. Then, cut one of the wet ingredients in the recipe back by 1/4 cup to account for the extra liquid.

Here are five tips to turn leftover soup into pasta sauce:

1. Avoid certain soups.
2. Reduce excess broth.
3. Heat blended soups gently.
4. Save and use pasta water.
5. Taste and season.

A slurry of two tablespoons of water and flour per 500 grams of tomatoes is a good amount. Dilute the flour in water, otherwise you’ll get a lumpy soup. Add the slurry gradually into the soup and stir constantly. Stop once you achieve your desired thickness.

11 Delicious Dishes You Can Make With a Can of Tomato Soup

1. Quick Creole. This one comes from Campbell’s Cookbook, published in 1969.
2. Mexican Marvel. Prepare soup using milk rather than water.
3. Mom’s Layered Dinner.
4. Slow-Cooker Lasagna.
5. Grilled Cheese Croutons.
6. Quick Curry.
7. Meat and Noodles.
8. Stuffed Cabbage Rolls.

No, adding vanilla protein powder to a bowl of tomato soup is probably not the best idea. But if you add a scoop of the plain stuff, you’ll be upping the protein without sacrificing flavor. Pea powder protein or brown rice protein are two great options, because they’re naturally a bit more savory.

Add a can of diced tomatoes, a bit of cream, and torn fresh basil leaves. Swirl some red wine vinegar into the soup and serve with a stack of mozzarella and fresh basil leaves on a toasted baguette. Add a drizzle of pesto (homemade or store bought) and finish with toasted pine nuts and croutons.

Tomato soup is low in calories and high in potassium and vitamins C, K, and A. It also provides a great deal of lycopene, the compound responsible for most of the health benefits of tomatoes.

A bowl of tomato soup provides 16% of the daily-recommended value of vitamin A. Vitamin C is required to maintain healthy tendons and ligaments. Tomato soup provides 20% of the daily-recommended value of vitamin C. So, a bowl full of tomato soup a day can definitely help to keep the body healthy!

Make sure that you get your daily fix of tomato soup! Potassium and vitamin B in tomatoes are also lowered blood pressure and cholesterol levels thereby reducing the incidents of strokes and heart attacks. Blood circulation: The selenium in tomato soup improves blood circulation and prevents anaemia.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup. The cheese and the acid in the soup are hard to digest at the same time. So you can end up with a stomach ache. Plus, the soup has a lot of sugar, the grilled cheese has a lot of fat, and they’re both high in sodium.

One of the best is also one of the classics — grilled cheese paired with soup. The combination can sooth a sore throat, settle a stomach and provide some much-needed carbohydrates to a body that can use all the energy it can get.

Post WWII institutional food service (including school cafeterias) paired grilled cheese with tomato soup to provide the required Vitamin C component. It was also economical and easy: “Soups. The use of canned soups for all types of school food serve, can add variety as well as good nutrition to the menu.

Grilled cheese can attribute its high fat and calories to the butter spread on the outside of the bread to make it crispy and the copious amounts of cheese in the middle. Pair that with a couple of slices of plain white bread and you have a nutritional disaster.

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