Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Basil Soup with Tortellini
By: Angela LeMoine
Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 6:13pm

Ingredients




2 cans organic crushed tomatoes
2 cans worth water
2 shallots, sliced
a couple big handfuls of fresh basil leaves
2 tsp black pepper
1 Tbsp salt
1 1/2 cups light cream
tortellini, cooked

Preparation

1 Add the tomatoes, water, basil, shallots, salt and pepper to the slow cooker. 2 Set to low for 8 hours. 3 At the end of the cooking time stir in the cream then blend the soup with an immersion blender. 4 Add some cooked tortellini in with the soup just before serving. 5 Garnish with fresh cracked pepper and sliced basil.

About

This recipe is so simple and the slow cooker really does most of the work for us! Shallots, organic {if you can} canned crushed tomatoes, basil, water, salt and pepper go in and after 8 hours in the slow cooker the flavors are all married. At the end stir in some light cream, blend with an immersion blender and stir in some cooked tortellini just before serving. I garnished with a little fr