Are you looking for a comforting and flavorsome combination that will warm your body and soul on a chilly day? Look no further than the classic pairing of grilled cheese and tomato soup. This timeless duo has been a favorite of many for generations, and for good reason. The gooey, melted cheese and crispy, golden brown bread provide a delightful contrast to the smooth, tangy soup, creating a perfect balance of flavors. Whether you're in the mood for a quick and easy lunch or a cozy dinner, this combination is sure to hit the spot.
Here are our top 12 tried and tested recipes!
TOMATO SOUP WITH GRILLED CHEESE
Provided by Michael Symon : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 45m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- For the tomato soup: Heat a large saucepan over medium heat and add the oil. When hot, add the onion and a large pinch of salt and cook until starting to soften, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Mix in the tomatoes and chicken stock. Add the cream, hot sauce and oregano if using and bring to a simmer. Simmer until thickened and the flavors come together, 20 to 30 minutes. Taste and season with additional salt if needed. Let cool slightly, then transfer to a blender and puree until smooth.
- For the grilled cheese: Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat.
- Spread the mayonnaise or melted butter on one side of each slice of bread. Sprinkle the Parmesan over the mayonnaise or butter. Flip the slices and put 4 pieces of Cheddar on 4 of the bread slices. Spread the other bread slices with mustard, if using, and close the slices together to form sandwiches (the mayonnaise and Parmesan should be on the outside).
- Working in batches if necessary, transfer the sandwiches to the skillet and cook until browned and toasted, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Slice and serve with the tomato soup.
TOMATO SOUP AND GRILLED CHEESE
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat a griddle pan over medium heat for the grilled cheese.
- Heat a medium soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the oil and then melt 2 tablespoons of the butter into the oil. Add the garlic, onions, thyme, paprika and some salt and pepper, then partially cover the pot and cook to soften, 10 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook until fragrant, 2 minutes. Deglaze the pan with 2 cups of the chicken stock and transfer to a food processor. Add the tomatoes and process until smooth. Pour the soup back into the pot and add the remaining 2 cups stock. Simmer at a low bubble while you make the grilled cheese.
- Lightly butter one side of each slice of bread. Place 2 slices of cheese between 2 slices of bread, buttered-side facing out. Grill the sandwiches until crispy and the cheese melts.
- Stir the cream into the tomato soup right before serving. Serve in shallow bowls with chives to garnish and grilled cheese for dipping.
BETTER-THAN-GRILLED CHEESE TOMATO SOUP
This tomato soup is perfect with grilled cheese.
Provided by Dezzie
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Vegetable Soup Recipes Tomato Soup Recipes
Time 35m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat butter and olive oil together in a large pot over medium heat; saute onion and carrot until softened, 4 to 6 minutes. Add garlic, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes; cook and stir until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Stir crushed tomatoes, tomato juice, and diced tomatoes into onion mixture; bring to a simmer. Reduce heat, stir sugar into tomato mixture, and simmer until heated through, about 10 minutes. Add cream and simmer until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes. Add basil to soup and cook until wilted, about 3 minutes. Serve chunky or puree with an immersion blender.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 324.5 calories, Carbohydrate 38.3 g, Cholesterol 48.4 mg, Fat 18.2 g, Fiber 7.1 g, Protein 7.3 g, SaturatedFat 9.3 g, Sodium 1395.4 mg, Sugar 13.4 g
GRILLED CHEESE & TOMATO SOUP BAKE
This casserole brings together two classic comfort foods: grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. There's no need for your hands to get messy dipping bread into a bowl of hot soup! Best of all, my picky-eater husband devours every bite. -Megan Kuns, Perrysburg, Ohio
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 50m
Yield 6 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, mix cream cheese and 1 teaspoon basil until blended; spread onto 6 bread slices. Top with the mozzarella cheese and remaining bread. Spread outsides of sandwiches with butter. Arrange in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish., In a small saucepan, combine tomato paste, garlic, salt, pepper and remaining basil; cook and stir over medium heat for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in milk; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 4-5 minutes or until thickened, stirring frequently. Remove from heat., Whisk the eggs in a large bowl; gradually whisk in a third of the milk mixture. Stir in the remaining milk mixture; pour over the sandwiches. Sprinkle with Italian cheese blend., Bake, uncovered, 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and cheese is melted. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 485 calories, Fat 29g fat (17g saturated fat), Cholesterol 137mg cholesterol, Sodium 918mg sodium, Carbohydrate 33g carbohydrate (7g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 23g protein.
GRILLED CHEESE WITH TOMATO SOUP
Steps:
- For Soup:
- In a medium pot, over medium heat, add the canola oil. Stir in the onions and celery, and saute until the onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper, to taste, and saute an additional 2 minutes. Stir in the crushed tomatoes and vegetable broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook, covered for 30 minutes. (Remove 2 cups of soup and reserve it for Round 2 Recipe Chicken Cacciatore.) Add the remaining soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Return the puree to the pot and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Serve hot with grilled cheese sandwich.
- For Grilled Cheese Sandwich:
- Heat a large grill pan over medium-high heat. Butter 1 side of each slice of bread. Lay half of the bread, butter side down, in the pan. Put a slice of American cheese on each piece of bread, then sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the Cheddar on top of each piece. Add another slice of American cheese on top of the Cheddar and finally cover with the remaining bread slices, butter side up. Grill until golden brown on both sides and the cheese is melted, about 3 minutes a side. Cut into triangles and serve with tomato soup.
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN GRILLED CHEESE AND TOMATO SOUP
Provided by Jeff Mauro, host of Sandwich King
Categories main-dish
Time 2h10m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Heat a large nonstick pan over medium-low heat. Place 5 slices* of cheese in between two slices of bread (two on each side and one in the middle). Spread about 1 tablespoon butter on each exterior side of the bread. Remember, crust-to-crust is a must. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Place the first side in the pan (cooking in batches if necessary) and "dome" with an inverted large metal bowl or pan lid to create the proper vortex of heat. Cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes, then flip and continue to cook until the cheese is gooey and bread is golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes more.
- Cut, slowly separate and watch as the cascade of gooey good ol' American cheese catches the sunlight streaming through the kitchen window and throws a glow of warm orange light throughout your entire house. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches. Serve with the Tomato Soup.
- *I know this sounds excessive, but it ensures the most possible ooey-gooeyness. If you're watching the intake, you can scale back to 3 slices.
- Heat a large Dutch oven or soup pot over medium heat. Add the butter, onions, carrots, celery, chile flakes and a couple pinches of salt and pepper. Sauté until translucent, 10 to 12 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook for an additional minute. Deglaze with the sherry while scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pot. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves and stock. Simmer until everything is cooked through and very tender, about 1 hour.
- Discard the bay leaves and blend the soup until completely smooth and uniform in texture using an immersion blender. Add the heavy cream and adjust the seasoning. Serve!
GRILLED TOMATO SOUP WITH GRILLED CHEESE TOASTS
This charred tomato soup is the perfect way to say farewell to summer's last tomatoes while welcoming fall and the new school year. We love Havarti cheese for the toasts, because it melts so nicely, but you can try pepper Jack, Muenster or even American.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories main-dish
Time 1h15m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat a grill for cooking over medium-high heat. Lightly oil the grill grates.
- Drizzle the cut-sides of the tomato halves with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place them on the grill cut-side down until they have very dark grill marks, about 8 minutes. Gently flip and grill on the skin-side to char, about 2 minutes. Lightly drizzle some olive oil on a sheet of aluminum foil. Arrange the onion rounds in one layer on the foil. Drizzle with a little more olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the foil sheet on the grill grates. Grill until the onions develop dark char on both sides, about 5 minutes per side. Turn the grill down to medium for the grilled cheese toast.
- Heat the 1 tablespoon butter in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the grilled onions and cook until soft and translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and thyme; stir for about 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and all their juices and mash down the tomatoes with a wooden spoon to break them up a bit. Add 2 cups water, 2 teaspoons salt and some more black pepper. Bring the soup to a boil, then turn down to a simmer and cook, about 15 minutes. Take the soup off the heat, and stir in the basil leaves. Very carefully puree the soup in a blender or with a handheld stick blender. When ready to serve, bring the soup back to a simmer, and add the heavy cream. Taste for seasoning. Add more salt, if necessary. If the tomatoes are too acidic, add a little sugar to taste.
- Meanwhile, make the grilled cheese toast: brush the melted butter on both sides of each bread slice. Place the slices on the grill; cook until nicely toasted on the underside, 3 to 5 minutes. Flip the bread and top each with 2 slices of cheese. Cover and cook to melt the cheese and toast the other side, 2 to 3 minutes. Grind a little pepper on each cheese toast. Serve immediately with the soup.
QUICK TOMATO SOUP WITH GRILLED CHEESE
When done well, this age-old combination can be exactly what you want. Here, the cooking is as easy as the eating: While you get the soup started in a pot with a can of tomatoes and little more than onion and butter (in the style of Marcella Hazan's famous tomato sauce), you assemble and pan-fry the sandwiches. The particular joy of these lies in their soft, quiet flavors: A thin layer of mayonnaise spread on the inside of the bread heats with the mozzarella, a mild cheese that lets you taste the bread and butter as they are. With a filling this rich and gooey, you want a delicate sweet enriched loaf like brioche or milk bread.
Provided by Eric Kim
Categories dinner, easy, lunch, quick, sandwiches, soups and stews, main course
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Make the soup: Dump the canned tomatoes and their juices into a medium pot and using your hands, tear into coarse chunks. Swish the broth in the empty tomato can and add to the pot.
- Stir in the onion, butter, oregano and sugar and season generously with salt and pepper. Turn the heat to high and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover and continue simmering, stirring occasionally, until the onion is tender and the tomatoes have broken down, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the sandwiches: Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on one side of each slice of bread and evenly sprinkle the cheese and a little oregano on the mayonnaise side of 4 slices. Top with the cheeseless slices, mayonnaise-side down.
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium. Add the sandwiches and cook until golden brown on the bottoms, 2 to 3 minutes. Melt the remaining tablespoon of butter in the pan, then flip the sandwiches with a spatula, move them around to coat with the butter and cook until the other side is golden brown and the cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Turn heat to lowest setting to keep sandwiches warm.
- Carefully purée the tomato soup using a blender until smooth and creamy, adding more broth if needed to loosen to your desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer the grilled cheeses to a cutting board and cut each in half diagonally. Serve alongside the soup.
GRILLED CHEESE AND TOMATO SOUP BAKE
Steps:
- Heat oven to 425°F.
- Fill bread slices with Singles to make 6 sandwiches. Mix tomato soup and half-and-half until blended.
- Spray rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray. Spread outsides of sandwiches with mayo; place on prepared baking sheet. Bake 10 min. Remove baking sheet from oven; turn sandwiches.
- Spoon tomato soup mixture over sandwiches; spread to evenly cover tops of sandwiches. Top with shredded cheese.
- Bake 10 min. or until shredded cheese is melted.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 270, Fat 15 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 30 mg, Sodium 610 mg, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 10 g
GRILLED CHEESE AND TOMATO SANDWICHES
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Sandwiches are so easy and delicious, perfect for that lunchtime fix. Perfectly melted cheese surrounding a juicy tomato inside with toasted whole grain bread outside, make this sandwich the ultimate comfort food.
Provided by Country Crock®
Categories Trusted Brands: Recipes and Tips Country Crock®
Time 10m
Yield 2
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Heat 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Spread Country Crock® Spread on one side of each bread slice.
- Place 2 slices, Spread side down, in skillet. Top each with tomato, then cheese, then remaining bread slice, Spread side up.
- Cook until lightly browned on one side. Flip over and cook until cheese is melted.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 377.4 calories, Carbohydrate 25.7 g, Cholesterol 59.5 mg, Fat 21.1 g, Fiber 4.6 g, Protein 21.6 g, SaturatedFat 12.4 g, Sodium 573.6 mg, Sugar 5.2 g
THE ULTIMATE GRILLED CHEESE AND TOMATO SOUP BOWL RECIPE BY TASTY
Here's what you need: unsalted butter, large yellow onion, garlic, crushed tomato, chicken broth, heavy cream, salt, pepper, white bread, butter, garlic, large egg, cheddar cheese, olive oil, dried oregano, pepper, salt
Provided by Katie Aubin
Categories Lunch
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Make the tomato soup: melt the butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and stir for 6-8 minutes, until the onions just start to brown.
- Add the garlic and stir for another minute. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, chicken broth, heavy cream, salt, and pepper.
- Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Remove the soup from heat and transfer to a blender. Remove vent so that steam can escape. Blend for 2 minutes, until the soup is smooth and thick. Alternatively, leave the soup in the pot and use an immersion blender.
- Make the grilled cheese bowl: cut the crusts off the bread and set aside in a medium bowl.
- Arrange the bread slices into 3 lines: a line of 5, a line of 4, and a line of 2.
- In a small bowl, combine the melted butter and garlic and use a brush to spread the mixture over each piece of bread.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- Brush the bottom of each slice in egg wash and then dab the bottom of each piece of bread in the line of 5 and the line of 4. Dab all four sides of the bread in the group of 2. Overlap the edges of the 5 pieces of bread, then press the edges together to adhere. Repeat with the line of 4.
- In a greased medium oven-safe bowl, place one of the single slices of bread. Then, take the line of 5 slices and make it into a circle on the inside of the bowl. Press down the edges to adhere to the piece of bread at the bottom of the bowl.
- Cover the bread with 6 slices of cheese. Lay the remaining single slice of bread over the cheese, then make a circle with the line of 4 slices of bread, pressing to seal the edges and adhere to the bread below. Lay the remaining slice of cheese on the bottom.
- Using a small bowl, press down on the bread bowl to compress slightly.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until the bread is golden brown.
- Make the crouton fries: Add the olive oil, oregano, pepper, and salt to the bowl with the crusts. Toss until thoroughly coated. Transfer the crusts to a large baking sheet.
- Bake for 5 minutes, until the crusts are golden brown.
- Remove the bowl and crouton fries from oven. Use tongs to move the bread bowl from the bowl to a serving dish. Fill with tomato soup.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 740 calories, Carbohydrate 50 grams, Fat 57 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 8 grams, Sugar 13 grams
TOMATO SOUP WITH GRILLED CHEESE
Keep it classic with this recipe for Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese. A touch of basil makes this Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese a crowd-favorite.
Provided by My Food and Family
Categories Soup Recipes
Time 45m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat oil in large saucepan on medium-high heat. Add onions, carrots and celery; cook and stir 5 min. Stir in broth and water. Bring to boil; cover. Simmer 10 min. or until vegetables are tender.
- Add tomatoes and pepper; stir. Return to boil. Simmer 5 min. Stir in cream cheese and 1/4 cup basil. Remove from heat. Use immersion blender to blend soup until smooth. Return to heat; cover. Keep warm on low heat while you prepare America's Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwiches.
- Cut each sandwich into 6 pieces. Ladle soup into 6 bowls; sprinkle with remaining basil. Top each soup bowl with 2 sandwich pieces. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 260, Fat 14 g, SaturatedFat 8 g, TransFat 0.5 g, Cholesterol 40 mg, Sodium 680 mg, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 5 g
Tips:
- Use high-quality ingredients. The better the ingredients, the better your grilled cheese and tomato soup will be.
- Use a flavorful bread. A sturdy bread, like sourdough or whole wheat, will hold up well to the cheese and tomato soup.
- Use a good quality cheese. A sharp cheddar or Gruyère cheese will give your grilled cheese a delicious flavor.
- Don't be afraid to experiment with different cheeses. There are endless possibilities when it comes to grilled cheese, so feel free to mix and match different cheeses to find your favorite combination.
- Cook the grilled cheese over medium heat. This will help the cheese to melt evenly and prevent the bread from burning.
- Serve the grilled cheese and tomato soup immediately. This is when it will be at its best.
Conclusion:
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is a classic comfort food that is perfect for any occasion. With just a few simple ingredients, you can make a delicious grilled cheese and tomato soup that the whole family will love. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy meal, give this recipe a try.
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