One easy way to take canned tomato soup from bland to bold is to add spicy sausage. Adding this hearty, meaty ingredient will bring more texture, protein, taste, and flavor to simple tomato soup.

The rich, spicy paste-like mixture can be spread on crusty bread, though it’s more commonly diluted and used as a soup base ...

Then I added tomato purée, muscovado sugar ... but I still liked the mix. The spicy, creamy, aromatic soup is addictive (it was meant to serve six, but my partner and I scoffed it over two ...

The rich, spicy paste-like mixture can be spread on crusty bread, though it’s more commonly diluted and used as a soup base or pasta ... of deeply browned tomato paste and canned whole tomatoes ...