Whether your pantry is bare or you have dietary restrictions, if you need a substitute for condensed tomato soup, you will find this quick and easy condensed tomato soup recipe works very well!
Are you ever disappointed with a product after you read the ingredient list? Yeah, me too! Even when I am lucky enough to find a product without wheat, I am often dismayed by some of the other ingredients like high fructose corn syrup or modified food starch. Fortunately, I have found that creating substitutions from scratch allows me to have complete control over the ingredients, costs quite a bit less, and does not take that much time to do.
When we went gluten-free, I realized we could no longer use canned condensed tomato soup, or most other canned tomato soups because they use flour to thicken the soup.
How to Make a Substitute for Condensed Tomato Soup
I have created a tomato soup substitution recipe that makes the equivalent of one can of condensed tomato soup. You can use it if you are gluten-free or if you are avoiding some of the other ingredients in canned tomato soup. You can also use this as a replacement for condensed tomato soup instead of running to the store if you find that your pantry is bare.
Condensed Tomato Soup Recipe
I use organic tomato sauce and non-gmo cornstarch, but you should choose whichever brands you feel comfortable using or have readily available to you. If you are out of white sugar, you can replace brown sugar or honey, but it will slightly alter the taste.
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
- 1 – 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions:
- Add all of the ingredients to a mixing bowl.
- Use a whisk to thoroughly combine the ingredients.
- If you are using a recipe that calls for condensed tomato soup, use this substitute as the recipe directs. You can also add 1 cup of liquid (milk, water, or a combination) to make soup, though if I were doing that I would add some seasonings to spice it up a bit!
Printable Recipe for Condensed Tomato Soup Substitute
- 8 oz tomato sauce
- 1 - 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ tsp salt
- Add all of the ingredients to a mixing bowl.
- Use a whisk to thoroughly combine the ingredients.
You can also use this recipe in Tomato Soup Cake, which is surprisingly delicious and tastes like a spice cake.
Do you have foods that you have to avoid for health reasons? Do you avoid some just based on principle? Have you found healthier substitutions for convenience foods so that you can avoid these items?
Rebecca Miller says
Won’t the corn starch clump up, or should I make a slurry?
Ruth says
Super substitute! Thank you. Saved our sausage noodle casserole! Keep up the good work!
Meg says
What uf u don’t have corn starch what can u use in place of it
Sue G says
Potato starch….Google for how/where to buy in your area. My son can’t have corn so I needed to know the answer to that question also.
Autumn Agar says
I am allergic to tomato in any form. I have a recipe that calls for cream of mushroom soup and tomato soup. Are there ingredients that I can add that are tomato free but still avoid the tomato?
Alea Milham says
You can substitute pumpkin puree for the tomato sauce to get a similar texture.
Judie Janse van Rensburg says
Hi, I am in Austalia and here Tomato Sauce is what you would call Ketchup. Could you try explaining what you mean when referring to Tomato Sauce please.
For us Pasta Sauce is a jar of Tomato Based Sauce that goes over Pasta, Tomato Paste is the concentrated Tomato Paste you would use as pizza base. Thanks
Shelly says
So your pasta sauce is for noodles that has seasonings already in it. Yes tomato paste is the same. I guess tomato sauce would basically just plain tomatoes (no seeds) blended/puréed and canned. That’s it. Then there is diced tomatoes in a can, whole tomatoes, crushed tomatoes… I hope that helps
Elizabeth says
Can this be made with no sugar? My daughter is unable to have sugar right now.
Alea Milham says
Yes, it can. Obviously it will be a little less sweet, but it will not impact the texture of the soup.