Garden Fresh Tomato Soup in a Slow Cooker

This soup is sooooo fresh tasting.  Those canned tomato soups shouldn't even call themselves tomato soup!

Ingredients:

18 - 20 tomatoes, blanched  and peeled
2 yellow onions chopped
4 carrots thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 tbsps brown sugar
1/4 cup fresh basil (divided, add half at beginning of cooking and half when soup is removed from heat)
2 tsp dried parsley
2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
4 cups chicken broth

To blanch the tomatoes simply drop them (gently) into a pot of boiling water.  Remove when the skins wrinkle a bit, 30-60 seconds and place them in a bowl of cold water.  Peel and chop them.

Place all ingredients in a slow cooker and set on low for 6 hours or until vegetables (especially the carrots) are soft.

Purée using a food processor or immersion hand blender.
This soup can easily be frozen too.

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http://hotandcoldrunningmom.blogspot.ca/2013/09/cooked-tomato-salsa.html

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