Tomato Bisque With Fresh Goat Cheese Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What makes tomato bisque different than tomato soup? ›

What is the difference between tomato soup and Tomato Bisque? Tomato soup is usually made with either vegetable or chicken stock. Tomato bisque is made by adding cream or whole milk. The dairy is what makes it thicker and creamier, which gives it the defining traits of a bisque.

Goat cheese can be categorized as fresh or ripened. Fresh goat cheese is rindless and is not aged more than two months. It has a zesty taste and its texture is supple, soft and creamy. Ripened goat cheese is crumblier since its body becomes firmer with age.

Key Differences

Ingredients: Bisque is often made with seafood and enriched with heavy cream, whereas soup can be made with a wide range of ingredients, offering more versatility. Consistency: Bisque is consistently smooth and velvety, while soup can have a diverse range of consistencies, depending on the recipe.

How to Use Fresh Goat Cheese (aka Unripened Goat Cheese, Fresh Chèvre) Fresh Goat Cheese. Image courtesy of Goat Cheeses of France. What Is It: Fresh goat cheese is so young that it has not yet developed a rind. It's often sold in tubes in the supermarket.

Heart Health Hero: Tomato soup is excellent for heart health. Thanks to its lycopene content, potassium, and fiber, it helps in lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The soup's low saturated fat content also makes it a heart-friendly choice.

Add Flour Or Cornstarch

You can thicken soup by adding flour, cornstarch, or another starchy substitute. For the best results, never add flour or cornstarch directly to your soup. If you do, it will clump up on top. Instead, ladle a small amount of broth into a separate bowl and let it cool.

Simply meaning “goat” in French, chèvre refers mainly to these fresh cheeses, but like other animal milks, goat's milk cheeses run the gamut: from young and fresh to aged and fruity in terms of the variety of cheeses they result in.

Use goat cheese for making tomato rosemary savory mini cheesecakes, topping your next garlicky grilled chicken pizza, and stuffing into chiles en nogada. We also love how good goat cheese is when it's marinated in good olive oil and a blend of herbs, like rosemary and thyme.

How well a cheese can melt depends on its moisture content, age, and acidity. Old, grate-ables like Parmigiano aren't flexible enough to melt. Tangy freshies like feta and goat cheese soften, but won't get gooey. And squishies like brie and Taleggio liquefy into an oozing puddle when heated.

Because of this distinction, there are many who argue that tomato bisque is not a true bisque at all because it has no crustacean products mixed in. However, the term has evolved in modern day to include cream based soup such as squash, mushroom, and tomato.

What is the thickener in bisque? ›

A bisque is a smooth, creamy French style of soup, traditionally made from crustaceans like lobster, crab or crayfish. It should include a stock made from the shells, a large amount of cream, and a thickening agent made from either finely-ground shells or rice.

Most modern bisques are thickened using rice. Some cook the rice in the broth and strain it out later, using only the left-behind rice starch to thicken the soup. Others puree the rice into the soup to thicken it. Almost all bisques are finished with hot cream for a velvety texture.

Goat's milk is naturally hom*ogenized, unlike its cow counterpart. As a result, goat's milk ages much quicker. “As it ages, the milk will get progressively stronger and 'goaty-er'. The longer you take to process the milk, the stronger the “goatyness” will be in the cheese,” said Pete.

This goat's milk cheese brings tangy flavour to pizza, everyday toast, pasta and cream sauces.

Leave cheese for at least 1 hour

As a rule of thumb, we recommend taking your cheese out of the fridge for at least an hour before serving.

Although it is likely to change the flavor profile more than other substitutes, tomato soup can work as a tomato sauce substitute. A can of tomato soup can replace 1 cup of tomato sauce. However, because the soup has more liquid than tomato sauce, you should reduce another liquid ingredient by 1/4 cup if possible.

The word bisque, "crayfish soup" in French, stems either from the Bay of Biscay or the technique of bis cuites, or "twice cooked."

WATER, TOMATO PASTE, DICED TOMATOES (TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUMCHLORIDE), CANOLA OIL, CREAM, SUGAR, ONIONS, BUTTER, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, BASIL, YEASTEXTRACT (BARLEY), WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED MILK INGREDIENTS, DRIED GARLIC, DRIED PARSLEY, ONIONPOWDER, ANNATTO, SPICES (CONTAINS CHILLIES).