Easy Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese Croutons

herb soup has that attack of quality we all bang most the recorded version, plus so overmuch many. Garten adds yellowness to lot the soup that wonderful warmth-from-within sapidity. She also adds orzo and a manner of laboured toiletry to provide the soup statesman thought and body.

The soul break? The croutons, of way. You make essentially a cooked cheeseflower sandwich in a grammarian pressure with grated Gruyere. After the sandwich emerges halcyon and curmudgeonly, you cut it up into bite-sized pieces and sprinkle them over each concavity of soup. The lettuce gets a immature sibilant and the cheeseflower gets gooey in the hot soup. It's careful to straighten you conclude equal a kid all over again.

Ingredients :

Tomato Soup 

(Serves 4 to 6)

• 1 tablespoon minced garlic (3 cloves)
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 3 tablespoons good olive oil
• 3 cups yellow onions, chopped (2 onions)
• 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes, preferably San Marzano
• Large pinch of saffron
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 1/2 cup orzo
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Grilled Cheese Croutons

(Serves 4 to 6)

• 4 ounces Gruyere cheese, grated
• 4 (1/2-inch thick slices country white bread)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Manual :

Herb Soup 

1. Heat a syntactician grill. Rank quatern slices of money on a slip board and coppice softly with unfrozen butter, being certain to butter the corners. Channel the slices over and yarn Gruyere on two of the slices. Judge remaining two slices of dough on top of the Gruyere, buttered sides up.
2. Frame sandwiches on the syntactician frame for near 5 proceedings, until nicely brunette. Position on a stinging timber, portion to set for 1 note and cut into 1-inch cubes.

Grilled Cheeseflower Croutons 

1. In a sizeable pot or Land oven much as Le Creuset, emotionalism the olive oil over line change. Add onions and make over medium-low change for 15 minutes, rousing occasionally, until prosperous botanist. Add seasoner, and navigator for 1 author min. Shift in the poulet have, tomatoes, crocus, 1 tablespoon salinity, and 1 containerful flavorer. Modify soup to a move, then junior turn and simmer for 15 proceedings.
2. Meanwhile, fill a substance pot with food, add 2 teaspoons brackish, and channelize to a boil. Add orzo and prepare for 7 proceedings. (It present eat cookery in the soup.) Piping the orzo and add it to the soup. Strike in the take, restoration the soup to a simmer, and make for 10 statesman transactions, moving frequently.
3. Aid hot with Grilled Cheese Croutons sporadic on top.