Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
With an abundance of fresh produce available this time of year why not roast your vegetables! Roasting brings out the natural sweetness in vegetables and the vegetables have a more concentrated flavor. Roasting vegetables is super easy and the perfect way to prepare farm fresh vegetables. Serve Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup with the classic grilled cheese sandwich or my new favorite, grilled cheese croutons.

Two Kitchen Tips
This post also contains two additional “recipes” or “kitchen tips.” The first kitchen tip is; how to roast tomatoes and peppers. A very easy process that adds so much flavor and depth to all vegetables. Roasted vegetables add a distinct flavor to everything they’re added too. If you’re never roasted vegetables before I highly recommend it. Head to your nearest farm market or local farm pick up as many vegetables as you can carry, bring them home and let the roasting begin.
Kitchen Tip #2
How to make grilled cheese croutons is the second recipe. Making grilled cheese croutons are super simple. All you have to do is make a grilled cheese sandwich and them cut the sandwich into cubes and 1,2,3 you have croutons. At least that’s how I go about making then. I can’t believe I never thought of it sooner. But better late than never, right!
Ingredients
- 4 to 6 peppers, (green, red, yellow, orange)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- Cut peppers in half, remove stem, seeds and membranes. Place cut side down in shallow baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with coarse salt and fresh cracked black pepper. Toss to coat. Roast in a 450º oven for about 30 to 45 minutes. Remove from oven. Transfer peppers to a brown paper bag, fold the top of the bag closed. Let steam for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove peppers from bag, peel off charred skins.
- Slice or chop peppers and use in your favorite recipes. Store in a large glass jar or a clean jelly jar works great too. Add a few tablespoons of olive oil to peppers in jar. Cover with tight fitting lid. Store in refrigerator.
Ingredients
- 4 to 6 tomatoes
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 springs fresh thyme and/or rosemary
- sea salt and pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 325º Pour olive oil into a shallow baking dish. Add garlic, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper. Cut tomatoes in half horizontally, use a sharp knife to remove stem and seeds.Toss tomatoes with oil and seasonings, lay cut side down in dish.
- Bake 2 hours or until tomatoes are completely soft and wilted. Remove skins if desired, they should slip right off, slice or chop and use in your favorite recipes.
- Store tomatoes in a large glass jar or a clean jelly jar works great too. Add a few tablespoons of olive oil to tomatoes in jar. Cover with tight fitting lid, store in refrigerator.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
- 4 slices bread
- 6 oz shredded cheese, room temperature
Cooking Directions
- Heat skillet over medium heat. Completely butter one side of each slice of bread. Place one slice of bread in the pan, buttered side down. Sprinkle with shredded cheese. Top with remaining slice of bread, buttered side up. Turn the heat down slightly. Cook until golden brown 2 to 4 minutes, flip bread over, cook until golden brown on the other side 2 to 4 minutes.
- Cut the crust off of the grilled cheese then cut into 1-inch squares.
- Garnish your favorite soup with grilled cheese croutons.
Spicy Cheeseburger Soup is a favorite soup that will be even yummier served with grilled cheese croutons.

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
Ingredients
- 6 medium sweet red peppers, roasted and chopped
- 4 medium tomatoes, roasted, peeled and chopped
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 ribs celery, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 32 oz containers chicken broth
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon curry power
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
- In a dutch oven or soup kettle, saute' carrots, onions, celery and garlic in oil until veggies are tender. Add roasted peppers and tomatoes. Stir for 5 minutes. Stir in chicken broth; stir in sugar, and seasonings. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 25 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes. Puree mixture in small batches in a blender or use an immersion blender. Blend ingredients together well. Heat on low until heated through.
- Serve with tortilla strips and sprinkle with crushed red pepper flakes or serve with grilled cheese croutons.
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29 Comments on “Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup”
I loved this soup! Thank you so much for a fantastic recipe!! 🙂
Sounds delicious for a cool fall evening. Pinning it to try! I'm over from the Lets Get Real blog hop. Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Miki~ Hope you give this soup a try and See you next time!
Thanks for participating in the Let's Get Real party! My husband LOVES roasted red pepper soup. I've never tried to make it myself. I'm pinning this for Fall/Winter. Whenever that rolls around… 🙂
Hi Nicole~ Thanks for stopping~ I hope you give the recipe a try, you'll love it:)
Hi~ Living in Northern WI we are still waiting for Summer to get here:) It has been in low 50's at night and high 70's during the day so I have been eating soup all summer…which I love~ I have never made this soup in the crock pot, but I have many other soups, such as Squash Soup. Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks for your wonderful comments:) See you next time~Lynn
I could go for a cup of this soup right now. It's August but it feels like fall here. Thanks for the roasting lesson. I am a real food fanatic, but my cooking skills are pretty basic. I appreciate all the help I can get. Have you ever tried making this soup in a crock pot? I wonder how it would work. Thanks so much for sharing this with the Get Fit Friday hop. I'm sure our readers will love this recipe. You always have such fantastic recipes!
This soup looks so good. I was just thinking about a roasted tomato soup for this week, but I like the addition of the roasted peppers too..
Hi Judee~ This soup is so good made with fresh tomatoes and peppers! Perfect for this time of year!! Thanks for stopping:)
This looks delicious I love soups especially with tomato so I have to try it !
Hi Jagoda~ Thanks for stopping by today~ Let me know how you like the soup…..it's great with a grilled cheese sandwich:) Lynn
Yum!! I love roasting peppers and chiles in the oven! Lately I've been roasting a lot of hatch chiles..yup…it's that season. Hooray! Gorgeous color and pictures. I like how you think..it would be marvelous with a grilled cheese sandwich 😉
Hi~ Thanks so much for stopping by:) I love any kind of peppers, they add so much flavor!
I just commented on another blog that I think roasting is the best thing a person can do to a vegetable. I especially like roasted peppers. And especially red ones. This is a beautiful soup, Lynn. I'm not normally a soup kinda girl, but a bowl like this can turn me around!
Thank you for linking!
Hi Michelle~ Thanks for stopping and you are right, the best thing you can do for any vegetable is roast it:) Living up north, where it's cold, you just become a soup kinda girl:) lol See you next time at See Ya in the Gumbo!
Beautiful color! I love roasted red pepper, it has such a yummy flavor!
Hi Ann~ Roasted red pepper is a favorite of mine:)
I've been looking for a tomato soup recipe! Thanks for joining us this week at the Let's Get Social Sunday!
Hi Diane~ This soup is wonderful and great with a grilled cheese sandwich:) You have got to give it a try~
Just mouthwatering…looks delicious!
Hi Kalyan~ Thank you~
Hi Lynn, your comfort soup look perfect and delicious. Love the tortillas strip, so inviting. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Have a wonderful week ahead.
Hi Amelia~ Thanks so much for stopping:) The tortilla strips are wonderful on this soup:)
Oh yum! Looks delicious~! A prefect soup to use up all the abundance of fresh summer produce!!
Hi Lena~ Thanks for stopping by, I know you haven't been feeling well:( Maybe you need some of my soup! Lynn
Hi Stacy~ Thanks for stopping! My neighbor has a lot of tomatoes this year and I have a lot of peppers, so we exchanged and each made soup:) This is great with a grilled cheese sandwich:) Lynn
Just pinned:))) Sounds sooo good!!
Hugs
Hi Evelyn~ Glad to see your back and up and running:) Lynn
It looks like a hearty and delicious soup! I'll try it ~ it looks like I may have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year!