American
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup is American home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 8 slices sandwich bread
- 8 cheddar slices
- 6 tbsp butter
- 28 oz crushed tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup chopped basil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Melt 2 tbsp butter in a pot and soften the onion and garlic, 5 minutes.
- Add the crushed tomatoes and broth, simmer 15 minutes, then blend smooth and stir in the cream, basil, and salt.
- Butter the outsides of the bread and build sandwiches with two slices of cheddar each.
- Grill in a skillet over medium heat until golden and the cheese melts, about 3 minutes per side.
- Cut the sandwiches on the diagonal and serve with bowls of the soup.
Serve it with
A American lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on bread, cheese, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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