Instant Pot Creamy Tomato Soup is a delicious and comforting soup recipe made with fresh tomatoes, carrots, bell pepper, onion, basil, garnished with cream, and served with crunchy croutons making a perfect lunch!
Tomato soups are generally served as an appetizer in India and can be served warm or cold. Tomato soup is quite popular around the world and has different variations. This creamy tomato soup is our favorite family soup and is easy to make in a pressure cooker.
Ingredients for Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
- Carrots, Red bell pepper, Onions, Garlic: These veggies can be diced or finely chopped.
- Diced tomatoes: I have used fresh tomatoes and diced them. You can also use canned fire-roasted tomatoes to enhance the flavor.
- Butter or olive oil: use unsalted butter or olive oil for an even healthier soup.
- Vegetable broth (or water): use low sodium vegetable broth to reduce salt content otherwise, you can use water.
- Basil: you can use either 2 teaspoons of dried basil or 2-3 tablespoons of fresh basil, chopped.
- Toppings: Fresh basil, Bread Croutons, Shredded Cheese – Parmesan, Cheddar, Mozzarella, Cream, or any combination of these.
How to Make Best Tomato Soup in Instant Pot
Firstly, press SAUTE on Instant Pot. Next, add butter or oil and once it's hot, add bay leaf and minced garlic and saute for 30 seconds.
Next, add onions and saute until they soften.
Then add diced carrots, red bell pepper, diced tomatoes, water or vegetable stock, black pepper powder, and salt. I have added carrots to this recipe for the creamy texture, bright color it brings, and sweet taste.
Red bell pepper gives a nice smoky flavor and color to the soup. But it's optional. You can also use celery for this recipe.
Close the lid on the pot, and turn the pressure valve to SEALING position. Set the pot to MANUAL/PRESSURE COOK (High Pressure) and timer to 6 minutes.
When the instant pot beeps, let the pressure release naturally. Open the lid.
Remove Bay leaf and puree the soup using a hand blender until smooth. If you don't have a hand blender, puree in a blender in batches once slightly cooled. Then I usually sieve the puree and discard the residue, but it's optional.
Add dried basil, black pepper powder, heavy cream, or milk or half and a half, and stir well. It is entirely up to you which of these three you want to use; remember that the higher the fat content, the creamier the soup. Adjust seasoning.
If you think the soup is too thick, you can add water or milk and boil it for 2 minutes.
Serve this Instant pot cream of tomato soup hot and top with bread croutons and a drizzle of heavy cream.
Stovetop Pot Method
- Follow the same steps as above for Stovetop, instead of pressure cooking here, we have to cover the pot and simmer until the tomatoes, and other vegetables are soft, about 20 minutes, and blend.
What do you eat with Tomato Soup?
- garlic bread
- grilled cheese sandwich
- salad
Recipe FAQs
Don't worry if you are on a weight loss goal or ran out of cream! You can still enjoy a bowl of this Tomato Soup to warm you!
You can substitute the heavy cream for milk, almond milk, coconut milk, or vegetable broth. You can also whisk in 1.5 tablespoons of cornstarch to water and add it to soup, in the end, to add more body to the soup.
To make a Vegan cream of tomato soup recipe, replace the milk/heavy cream with coconut, almond, or cashew milk/cream.
Yes, you can freeze this soup, assuming you followed my directions. I would recommend freezing the tomato and broth puree, then when you are reheating it, stir in the milk or cream.
Once soup cools down, transfer it into freezer-resistant containers or Ziploc freezer bags and freeze for up to 2 months.
Just an important note here. Add dairy (cream or milk) just before serving. This is because soup with dairy does not freeze well.
I have made this recipe with heavy cream, which is optional. However, sometimes the tomatoes can be very tart (depending on the variety), so adding extra cream or ½ teaspoon of sugar can help smooth out the flavor.
More Tomato Recipes
- Creamy Tomato Pasta
- Tomato Basil Pasta
- Tomato Chutney
- Tomato Rice using Coconut Milk
- Avocado Tomato Salad
More Instant Pot Soup Recipes?
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup
- Sweet Potato Soup
- Lentil Soup
- Cauliflower Soup
- Broccoli Spinach Soup
- Vegetable Lentil Quinoa Soup
- Sweet Corn Soup
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Instant Pot Creamy Tomato Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
Measuring cup used 1 cup = 250ml
- 5 large tomatoes (about 3 cups)
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1 large carrot diced (about ½ cup)
- ½ medium red bell pepper diced (about ½ cup)
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon butter or Olive oil
- 1 bay leaf (optional)
- 2 teaspoon dried basil or 2 tablespoon of fresh basil chopped
- salt + black pepper powder to taste
- 2 cups water or vegetable stock
- ¼ cup heavy cream or milk or half and half
Garnish:
- few bread croutons
- extra cream
Instructions
Instant Pot Method:
- Firstly, press SAUTE on Instant Pot. Next, add butter or oil and once it's hot, add bay leaf and minced garlic and saute for 30 seconds.
- Next, add onions and saute until they soften.
- Then add diced carrots, red bell pepper, diced tomatoes, water or vegetable stock, black pepper powder, and salt. I have added carrot in this recipe for the creamy texture, bright color it brings, and sweet taste.
- Red bell pepper gives a nice smoky flavor and color to the soup. But it's optional. You can also use celery for this recipe.
- Close the lid on the pot, and turn the pressure valve to SEALING position. Set the pot to MANUAL/PRESSURE COOK (High Pressure) and timer to 6 minutes.When the instant pot beeps, let the pressure release naturally. Open the lid.
- Remove Bay leaf and puree the soup using a hand blender until smooth. If you don't have a hand blender, puree in a blender in batches once slightly cooled. Then I usually sieve the puree and discard the residue, but it's optional.
- Add dried basil, black pepper powder, heavy cream, or milk or half and a half and stir well. It is entirely up to you which of these three you want to use; remember that the higher the fat content, the creamier the soup. Adjust seasoning.
- If you think the soup is too thick, you can add water or milk and boil for 2 minutes.
- Serve hot and top with croutons and a drizzle of heavy cream.
Stovetop Pot Method:
- Follow the same steps as above for STOVETOP, instead of pressure cooking here we have to cover the pot and simmer until the tomatoes and other vegetables are soft, about 20 minutes and blend.
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Anonymous says
Very nice recipe
bhavana says
Thank you
Ramya says
Awesome taste. Creamy.
bhavana says
thanks ramya