Tomato soup with basil dumplings

Creamy Tomato Soup with Basil Dumplings

The Tomato Soup with Basil Dumplings from Manufaktur U is a creamy soup made from sun-ripened tomatoes with small, hand-rolled basil dumplings made from pork and beef. This is no watery canned tomato soup, but a ready-to-serve soup from a small, carefully selected artisanal producer.

Tomato Soup with Basil Dumplings at Manufaktur U stands for a Mediterranean-spiced creamy tomato soup: sun-ripened tomatoes simmer in a homemade beef bone and vegetable broth, refined with a splash of red wine and cream. Small basil dumplings made of ground pork and beef give the 400 ml can its hearty touch.

Fruity, creamy, and with a savory basil note

As you heat it up, a sweet, fruity tomato aroma rises, while the bright red soup gathers in the ladle, interspersed with the small, light-colored dumplings. From the very first glance, you can tell that this is not a watered-down, concentrated soup.

The full sweetness of the sun-ripened tomatoes meets Mediterranean spices and a hint of red wine, while the cream binds everything into a perfectly smooth consistency. Fruity, savory, hearty – the basil dumplings add a small, meaty surprise to the otherwise smooth soup with every bite.

If you serve it at about 75 degrees Celsius, you will first taste the sweetness of the tomatoes before the dumplings with their savory meat note restore the balance, spoonful by spoonful, until the can is empty.

Creamy and served in just a few minutes

Pour the contents of the can into a pot and heat for a good 5 minutes, stirring, until the tomato soup is gently bubbling and the scent of tomatoes and basil fills the entire kitchen.

A few fresh basil leaves on top and a dollop of crème fraîche provide freshness and contrast, even if you don't have fresh basil on hand. The 400 ml is enough for one portion as an appetizer, or as a small main course when supplemented with toasted bread on a hungry day.

If you would like to continue trying the range, you can also find the hearty Pea Soup with Smoked Pork and the creamy Potato Soup with Bacon among the soups from Manufaktur U, both cooked according to the same principle. Unopened, the can will keep for up to 2 years, with no refrigerator required.

Hand-rolled instead of machine-formed

Behind the Tomato Soup with Basil Dumplings is no large-scale kitchen, and certainly not our own: it is cooked for us by a small artisanal workshop that Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch selected for the Manufaktur U brand because that is where the small dumplings are still shaped by hand, rather than being pressed on an assembly line.

Ingredients like tomatoes and basil are hand-selected and processed before they simmer with the dumplings in the slowly cooked broth – production takes place in an EC-certified artisanal facility. The soup is naturally so aromatic that it requires no flavor enhancers, relying solely on the ripeness of the tomatoes and the care taken during production.

The Manufaktur U range now includes ten soups in our shop, from this tomato soup with dumplings to the Cream of Game Soup with Venison Dumplings – each one still prepared by hand before being cooked in small batches. You can taste this difference from the very first spoonful, long before the last dumplings are fished out of the soup.