American Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons

I loved this idea of cutting the grilled cheese sandwich into small squares to use as croûtons in the soup. I love dipping my grilled cheese into my tomato soup but had never thought of this idea, which is genius. The grilled cheese for this recipe is made with thin slices of extra sharp cheddar which really paired nicely with the soup.

The soup is made with canned tomatoes and has some , chicken broth, onions, garlic and hot pepper in it. Lime juice and light sour cream is added just before pureeing. I did mine with my immersion blender.

I did have to improvise a bit since I didn't have the jalapeño called for, but did have a nice green hot pepper fresh from a neighbors garden. I didn't have cilantro, but hubby doesn't like it anyway, so I used some parsley from my window herb garden. The soup was good but the croûtons were the best and I'll be doing this again when I made tomato soup.