Tomato Bisque - Creamy Tomato Soup Recipe

**** Use canned tomatoes/ plum style type and crush yourself with hands, use chicken or veggie broth and the surprise ingredient is jasmine long grain rice to thicken it....that is magic here...

This tomato bisque is proof you don't need a whole basket of vine-ripened tomatoes to make delicious tomato bisque. This recipe uses canned tomatoes. Rice makes this soup silky, not starchy.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced celery
1 pinch salt
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 (32 ounce) container chicken broth, or more as needed
1 (28 ounce) can crushed San Marzano tomatoes
½ teaspoon paprika
1 pinch freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
3 tablespoons uncooked jasmine rice
1 teaspoon white sugar, or to taste
½ cup heavy whipping cream
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream, divided
2 tablespoons thinly sliced fresh basil leaves, divided