Recipes · inspired by the soup that gets fixed in the restaurant kitchen in Ratatouille
Tasting-Spoon Tomato Soup
A smooth tomato soup that kids season themselves, one pinch and one taste at a time, like a real chef.
- Ready in
- 12 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- 2 bowls
- Level
- easy
Ratatouille is the 2007 Disney·Pixar movie about a rat who dreams of being a chef in Paris; its ride, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, is at Epcot’s France pavilion and Disneyland Paris. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of a dish from the movie or the pavilion, not an official recipe.
Chefs taste and adjust all the time. Letting kids be the one who decides “a little more salt” or “needs basil” makes them proud of the soup, and much more likely to eat it.
Make it a learning moment: a tiny pinch of sugar makes tomato soup taste less sour. Try a spoonful before and after to notice the difference.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Put the tomatoes, broth and butter in a pot and simmer 8 minutes.
- Grown-up Take it off the heat, stir in the cream and blend smooth with a stick blender.
- Grown-up Pour a little into a cup for the taste test and let it cool for a minute.
- Kids Add one pinch at a time from the seasoning bowls, stirring and tasting with a clean spoon each time, until it tastes just right. Then season the pot the same way.
