Vegan Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup

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This vegan roasted red pepper and tomato soup is the perfect fall recipe. It’s full of vegetables, made creamy from the cauliflower and coconut milk and bursting with flavor. Highly recommend pair the soup with the homemade garlic herb bread, too. It’s perfectly seasoned, crispy, and the best thing to dunk in the tomato soup! Have this on the table in less than an hour!

So happy that we are moving into cooler weather and soup season! If you couldn’t tell already, I am not a fan of hot summer weather. At all. And although we don’t have a true Fall season in California, I’ll take what I can get!

Charred Bell Pepppers

Now, you may have guessed by the recipe title that this recipe uses roasted red peppers.

To get all that good roasted flavor from the bell peppers you’ll want to stick them under the broiler for 10 minutes or so or until the skins of the pepper have blistered and charred.

You can also do this on a gas stove by sticking the bell pepper right on the stovetop grates. This method just may take you a little longer and is a little more dangerous so be careful and use tongs!

If you just throw some chopped bell pepper into your soup, you’ll stick get all the good nutrition bell peppers have to offer, but you won’t get that same deep flavor. The flavor that char gives them makes all the difference.

Now, I actually used a couple orange bell peppers because I used what I had on hand, but all red or all orange will do the trick.

I’d steer clear of using green bell peppers as they are more bitter and we want the sweeter taste of the orange and red bell peppers to keep this soup from tasting too acidic!

If you want a recipe where green bell peppers would be more appropriate, check out my Lentil Stuffed Peppers with Cilantro Lime Rice and 30 Minute Vegan Fajitas.

The Recipe!

Once you’ve got your charred bell peppers ready to go, making the rest of the soup is as easy as throwing everything in a pot and letting it simmer. It’s a dump and go recipe with just a little sautéing and immersion blending at the end!

There are a few key ingredients in this soup that really enhance the flavor.

• Vodka – Yep. This soup recipe calls for vodka. You may be familiar with Vodka Tomato Sauce on pasta, but I like to add vodka to my tomato soup as well because it really enhances the tomato flavor. Just a 1/4 cup, but it makes all the difference. There’s actually even scientific explanations to back this up. If you want to read more about how vodka can make your tomato sauce better, check out this article: The Reason Why Tomato Sauce with Vodka Tastes so Good.
• Cauliflower – Despite adding additional nutrition and vegetable servings to this soup, cauliflower helps add creaminess to the soup! It also helps thicken it. Don’t skip it!
• Basil and Oregano – I think it goes without saying that a good soup needs good spices. Basil and Oregano give this soup the underlying herbal notes it needs. Their sweet, peppery, bold, and woodsy. Use fresh or dried, but don’t forget these!

Garlicky Herbed Bread

Making this bread to go along with the soup is entirely optional, but highly recommended. What is better than dunking a piece of crispy, herby bread into your tomato soup and soaking up all that goodness?!

Nothing.

This bread is also super easy to throw together and bakes while the soups simmering!

I chose to roughly chop my bread into large crouton sized bites, but you could do larger pieces like sliced bread or pull it apart with your hands.

As long as it’s tossed in the irresistible garlic herb sauce, you can’t go wrong here.

To make the bread, whisk together oil (I used avocado), oregano, parsley, nutritional yeast, minced garlic, and salt in a large bowl.

Then add in your bread pieces and toss until all pieces are well coated.

Then spread the bread out on a baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until crispy.

Tip! Make sure the bread is spread out enough on the baking sheet. If it’s too close together, it will steam, not crisp!

I love this vegan roasted red pepper and tomato soup so much I hope you guys love it too! If you give it a try, please leave me a comment and share your recipe with me on Instagram! I love connecting with you on social media.

And if you need more fall soup ideas, check out these!

• 13 Bean Chili with Cornbread Waffles
• Potato Cauliflower and Leek Soup with Smoky Bacon Bits
• Vegan Corn Chowder

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