Please "school" me about these roasted tomatoes...and skins

[anna_x]

I used my first-time-ever-roasted-at-475 tomatoes for Michael Chiarello's soup. I blended it really thoroughly with an immersion blender. The soup was just delish, with intense tomato flavor.

HOWEVER, I had little slivers of tomato skin, that were tough and unchewable and got caught in our teeth. Is it necessary to either peel the tomatoes or sieve the soup?

 

[liz-d]

Not necessary to peel the tomatoes if you use a regular

blender. They seem to liquify/puree to a finer texture than the immersion blenders. If you use the immersion then yes you will need to sieve the soup or peel the tomatoes remove the pieces.

 

[steve2-in-la]

You can also put the tomatoes through a food mill which will separate seeds AND skins.

 

[karennoca]

I use my food processor to whiz them, and I have never had any tomato skins.