Mary Berry's Secret Ingredient For The Best Tomato Soup

If you love Mary Berry ’s recipes, you’ll already know how fond she is of an unexpected secret ingredient.

First came the controversial addition to her spag bol recipe ; then, we learned of her clever mashed potato hack. She even shakes up classic lasagne instructions.

But surely the Cordon Bleu-trained chef can’t add much to a tried-and-true tomato soup recipe, right?

Wrong!

The former Great British Bake-Off co-host’s tomato soup recipe is “one of her favourite family recipes,” its BBC page reads .

And that’s not surprising, as “With no onions to chop or tomatoes to skin, it really is ready in ten minutes!”

Aside from all the usual ingredients ― tinned tomatoes, stock, garlic, and a decadent hit of milk and cream at the end ― Mary Berry’s soup also contains flavour-inten