Tomato Soup With 'Grilled Cheese'

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Here's an inventive, and lighter, mode to contiguous this classical combination: The "grilled cheese" is really a frico, a crisp disk of baked Gruyere. Set it connected the soup, and interruption disconnected pieces to bask the crunch oregon fto it beryllium longer truthful that it softens.

This look works good with peak-season tomatoes, but roasting offseason specimens tin output bully results arsenic well.

To work the accompanying story, see: The cozy-season way to casual herb crockery starts with roasting.

Refrigerate the crockery for up to 4 days. Store the frico successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days.

Ingredients

2 pounds vine-ripened tomatoes, hulled and halved if ample (see headnote)
1 mean saccharine onion, specified arsenic Vidalia, coarsely chopped
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 spoon good salt, divided, oregon much arsenic needed
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, divided, oregon much arsenic needed
1 cupful adust achromatic wine
Water
4 ounces Gruyère cheese, finely grated
1/4 cupful packed caller cilantro, flat-leaf parsley oregon basil leaves, positive more, chopped, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
280
Fat
17 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
13 g
Sodium
430 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
11 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Bobby Flay Fit: 200 Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle" by Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas and Sally Jackson (Clarkson Potter, 2017).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published November 30, 2017

Updated March 16, 2026