Thick mashed soup with pumpkin zucchini and potatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for vegetable soup-puree. If desired, the set of vegetables can be changed according to taste and availability. To get a less high-calorie diet soup, it is better to add zucchini to a set of vegetables and, conversely, exclude potatoes. And for the daily menu, it is better to cook soup with potatoes, it will turn out to be satisfying and nutritious even without meat in the composition. Potatoes are washed, cleaned and cut into cubes so that it cooks faster.

2. Step 2:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned and cut into large pieces or circles. Onions are cleaned from the husk and cut into several parts.

3. Step 3:

   

   My zucchini, if the skin is already rough, we remove it, remove the pulp with seeds, cut the zucchini into cubes. Young zucchini can be cut together with the skin.

4. Step 4:

   

   To add a special flavor to the soup, you can add a piece of fresh pumpkin, it will make the soup even healthier. For flavor, you can add another clove of garlic.

6. Step 5:

   

   Put potatoes and carrots in a saucepan, fill with water and put on fire. When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium, cook the vegetables for about 10 minutes. Then we lower the remaining vegetables into the pan: onions, zucchini and pumpkin, these vegetables need less time to cook, and in order to preserve more vitamins in them, it is better not to digest them and do not immediately put them in a pot with potatoes.

7. Step 6:

   

   Cook over medium heat for about 15 more minutes. Add salt, ground black pepper, a pinch of nutmeg and crushed garlic to taste. Stir, keep on fire for a couple more minutes. Turn off the fire. Part of the broth is drained. Vegetables with the rest of the broth are turned into mashed potatoes using a blender.

8. Step 7:

   

   If the soup-puree turned out to be too thick, then add a little more of the left vegetable broth. We put the soup on the fire, let it boil, stirring, turn off the fire. The soup is ready. We serve it to the table, optionally with sour cream and crackers. Enjoy your meal!