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Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup

Name: Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 4 slices sandwich bread; 6 oz sharp cheddar; 2 tbsp butter; 28 oz crushed tomatoes; 1/2 onion; 1 cup vegetable broth; 1/4 cup heavy cream; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup is Canadian 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.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 slices sandwich bread
6 oz sharp cheddar
2 tbsp butter
28 oz crushed tomatoes
1/2 onion
1 cup vegetable broth
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Cook the diced onion in a saucepan with a little butter until soft, about 5 minutes.
Add the crushed tomatoes and vegetable broth and simmer for 15 minutes, then blend until smooth and stir in the cream.
Butter one side of each slice of bread and sandwich a layer of cheddar between two slices, buttered sides out.
Cook the sandwiches in a skillet over medium heat until golden and the cheese melts, about 3 minutes per side.
Season the soup with salt and pepper and serve alongside the grilled cheese, cut into halves for dipping.

Watch how to cook Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Canadian lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

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. Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Gluten	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 530 kcal
Protein: 17 g
Carbs: 40 g
Fat: 34 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 12 g
Sodium: 1590 mg
Saturated fat: 21 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Canadian Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.