Cream Of Tomato Soup With Green Chilies And Cilantro Pesto Recipes

CREAMY GREEN CHILE SOUP

Steps:

• In a medium pot over medium-high heat, combine onions, garlic, 1 cup corn kernels, 2 cans of the chiles, chicken stock, and Mexican seasoning. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add remaining corn and green chiles. Add mushrooms and saute for 10 minutes, or until water from mushrooms is released and evaporated; set aside.
• Transfer chile mixture to a blender. Puree until smooth, working in batches if necessary. *(TIP: Cover blender with dish towel and pulse.) Return puree to skillet and add sauteed vegetables. Bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat and stir in Mexican crema. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
• Serve soup hot garnished with cilantro and cotija cheese.

CREAM OF FRESH TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions and carrots and saute for about 10 minutes, until very tender. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, sugar, tomato paste, basil, chicken stock, salt, and pepper and stir well. Bring the soup to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer, uncovered, for 30 to 40 minutes, until the tomatoes are very tender.
• Add the cream to the soup and process it through a food mill into a bowl, discarding only the dry pulp that's left. Reheat the soup over low heat just until hot and serve with julienned basil leaves and/or croutons.

GREEN CHILI TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the soup, milk and chilies until blended. Cook and stir over medium heat until heated through. Sprinkle with cheese.

PATRICIA'S GREEN CHILE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Saute onion until transparent. Stir in the garlic, green chiles, chicken meat, and cumin. Cook for one minute to blend the flavors. Stir in the cream of chicken soup and half-and-half. Cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Ladle hot soup into bowls. Top with cheese and a dollop of sour cream.

FABULOUS CILANTRO PESTO

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta, and return water to a boil. Cook pasta for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente; drain well.
• In an electric food processor or blender, blend cilantro, garlic, vinegar, Parmesan cheese, cayenne pepper, nuts, and salt. Add 1/4 cup of the olive oil, and blend the pesto. Add more olive oil until the pesto reaches your desired consistency.
• Pour pesto in a small saucepan and warm over low heat, stirring constantly, until pesto begins to simmer. Pour over cooked pasta and toss.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, over medium heat, saute onions in butter until translucent. Remove from the heat. Stir in the flour so that no lumps remain, then slowly whisk in the tomato juice. Return to the heat and add salt to taste. Cook until just boiling but turn off the heat before it boils. Let cool 10 minutes then slowly stir in milk. Serve immediately.

CREAMY CILANTRO PESTO SAUCE

Steps:

• Blend cilantro leaves, cream cheese, artichoke hearts, green onions, basil, jalapeno pepper, lemon juice, and salt in a blender until smooth.

GREEN CHILE CILANTRO PESTO

Steps:

• In a blender or food processor add the chiles, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice, nuts, olive oil, and garlic.
• Puree until amost smooth. Stir in the grated cheese, taste and adjust salt to taste.

TOMATO SOUP I

Steps:

• In a large stock pot, combine tomatoes, chicken broth, butter, sugar, onion, and baking soda. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour.
• Stir in cream; cook until heated through and serve.

CREAMY TOMATO SOUP WITH PESTO

Steps:

• Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot.
• Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, and celery into a food processor and grind until smooth.
• Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil.
• Reduce heat and then simmer 15 minutes.
• While soup cooks, make pesto, if not using storebought.
• Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed.
• Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor.
• Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste.
• Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again.
• Transfer watercress paste to a bowl.
• Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese.
• Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings.
• Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup.

GREEN CHILE-CILANTRO PESTO SAUCE (PASTA)

Steps:

• Puree cilantro, cheese, green chile, jalapeno, pine nuts, and garlic in food processor until smooth, scraping down sides as necessary.
• With processor running, add oil in steady stream until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper.
• Toss pesto with cooked pasta and reserved pasta cooking water, if necessary.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP WITH PESTO

Steps:

• Pour chicken broth into a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil until reduced by about 1/3.
• Pour in both cans of the tomatoes, and return to a simmer. Pour in the half-and-half, and turn heat to low. Simmer for 15 minutes. Puree in batches in a blender, or use an immersion blender in the pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Ladle into bowls, and swirl in a spoonful of pesto before serving.

POTATO AND GREEN CHILE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed soup pot over medium heat until melted. Add onion; cook and stir until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in potatoes and cook for 1 minute.
• Sprinkle in flour and stir until smooth. Cook for 1 minute, stirring continuously, until browned but not burned. Slowly pour in broth and stir until well incorporated; bring to a simmer. Cover and cook, stirring every 15 minutes, until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Be sure the soup does not boil.
• Stir in chile peppers, milk, cumin, oregano, and salt. Bring to a simmer, then immediately remove from heat; do not allow to boil. Add Monterey Jack cheese and Cheddar cheese; stir until melted. Season with pepper and serve.

CREAM OF CILANTRO SOUP

Steps:

• In a food processor puree the cilantro with 1 cup of the broth, and blend to smooth.
• In a large saucepan melt the butter over medium heat and whisk in the flour.
• Slowly add the remaining broth, whisking to smooth.
• Boil, while whisking, for 1 minute.
• Stir in the cream cheese, cilantro mixture, sour cream, garlic, salt, pepper, cumin.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Ladle into bowls and offer garnishes at the table.

TOMATO CILANTRO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large heavy pot over medium-high heat.
• Add onion and cook, stirring, until softened. Add garlic, cumin and paprika and cook 1 minute, stirring.
• Add tomatoes, water or vegetable stock, tomato paste, cilantro and 2 teaspoons salt. Bring to a simmer, cover and continue to simmer 30 minutes.
• Turn off heat, remove and discard cilantro and blend with immersion blender (or food processer or regular blender) until smooth. Season to taste with salt, pepper, lime juice and cayenne.
• Serve hot or cold, with a spoonful of yogurt in each bowl sprinkled with cilantro leaves.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP WITH GREEN CHILIES AND CILANTRO PESTO

Steps:

• Heat oil in large saucepan or dutch oven over medium low heat. Add celery, leek and onion and cook for 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Add next 7 ingredients (tomatoes- marjoram) and simmer for 45 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Strain soup, pressing on solids to extact as much liquid as possible, discard solids.
• In same saucepan as used to make tomato broth/soup, melt butter over medium-low heat. Add flour and whisk for about 10 minutes.
• Whisk in soup and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until thickened.
• Stir in half and half and continue simmering until heated through.
• Add chilie, tomatoes, 2 tablespoons pesto, sugar, salt and pepper.
• To make pesto: MIx all pesto ingredients (cilantro- salt) together in a food processor for 2 minutes until smooth. Store in jar in refrigerator (can be kept in refrigerator for 2 weeks or frozen).