Creamy tomato soup or vegan vodka sauce

I’m pretty sure this is why the instant pot was invented.

This tasted like it was simmered for hours over the oven.  With creamy cashews that were soaked for a day and pureed into smooth milky heaven.  But none of that happened.  In fact, it only took 20 minutes of hands on time at the most.

Creamy Tomato Soup / Vegan Vodka Sauce

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp garlic infused olive oil (or 1 tsp minced garlic)
• 4 oz chopped mushrooms
• 1 small yellow onion, diced
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 2 cups raw cashews
• 13-15 large tomatoes, chopped
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 1/4 tsp dried oregano
• 1/4 tsp dried parsley

Directions:

Using the sauté setting in the instant pot, cook mushrooms and onion in the oils and salt and pepper until translucent and cooked through.

Add cashews, tomatoes, and dried herbs and then add the lid to cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.  Let pressure release naturally then puree with an immersion blender.

Here’s the saute portion of the show.

I let that do it’s thing in the IP while I chopped tomatoes* (very roughly, because it doesn’t matter much since you use the immersion blender later anyway!).

*all from our garden!!!

These cashews were actually frozen when I added them to the pot and look how much they plumped up with that short time under pressure!!  MIND. BLOWN.

WOWWWWW.  Guys.  Just wow.  Make this asap.  As a soup.  As a sauce.  Whatever.  It’s delicious.

And if the photos and my descriptions haven’t sold you yet, let me just tell you about how my son devoured this bowl in under 10 minutes.  And while that’s not super impressive on it’s own, you should know the ONLY two foods he doesn’t like are tomatoes and cashews.  As in, the two main ingredients in this soup.  And when I told him (at the end) that they were in the meal he just shrugged and asked for more.  Crazy!

I made pork meatballs to serve with it too.  I must have been inspired by this lunch at Belcampo!  All I did was mix in a little magic mushroom powder and saute.  Easy as that!

I froze the rest of the soup for a rainy day, but I am already thinking I may want it sooner…