Tomato Soup with Pasta Alphabets

By Mrunal | Updated: 06/02/2019

Involve your kids, while preparing this soup, by asking them to gather the ingredients and chop the vegetables – you can just hand over blunt baby scissors and ask them to cut whichever vegetable they can. Pick out letters from the alphabet pasta for a quick lesson at mealtime!

Serves	Preparation Time	Cooking Time
6 People	20-25 Minutes	15-20 Minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped carrot
1/3 cup chopped celery
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
1 tsp (teaspoon) dried basil
1/4 tsp black pepper
500 g diced tomatoes
300 g alphabet pasta, cooked
1 cup reduced-fat milk

Method

Step 1

Drop the butter in a saucepan and melt it over medium-high heat. Add the chopped onion, carrot, and celery; sauté for 5 minutes or until tender. Now add the vegetable broth, basil, pepper, tomatoes, and bring to a boil.

Step 2

Reduce heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in 1/2 the pasta. Remove from heat; let it stand for 5 minutes.

Step 3

Divide the tomato mixture into parts. Place the first half in a blender, and process until smooth. Pour the puréed soup into a large bowl. Repeat the same procedure with remaining tomato mixture.

Step 4

Pour puréed soup back in to the pan; add remaining pasta and milk and stir.

Step 5

Cook over medium-high heat for 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, with continuous stirring. Do not boil.

Step 6

Your tomato alphabet soup is ready to serve.

Nutritional Information

Calories	534 K cal
Proteins	11.0 g
Total Fat	17.6 g
Total Carbohydrates	87.0 g
Cholesterol	124 mg
Sodium	286 mg
Potassium	352 mg

Tip -In our version of the tomato soup, we have made use of pureed pasta instead of cream or cornflour to thicken the soup. You can use cream or cornflour if you want.

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