Potato soup with croutons

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 5 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to very quickly and easily prepare mashed potato soup with onions, carrots and aromatic garlic croutons, which will definitely appeal to many for its excellent taste? First of all, we prepare the necessary products and spices for preparing homemade vegetable puree soup for lunch or dinner.

2. STEP 2

   

   To prepare the puree soup, take a suitable pan and place it on the stove, then pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into it and heat it, then put one finely chopped onion in it and stirring with a spatula, fry it at a high temperature on the stove until transparent.

3. STEP 3

   

   Take a large grater and grate one carrot, which you then place in a pan with onions and fry, stirring.

4. STEP 4

   

   Cut seven hundred grams of pre-peeled potatoes into fairly large pieces and place them in a common pan, then mix the vegetables together and heat the potatoes for five minutes.

5. STEP 5

   

   Chop half a bell pepper and one stalk of celery into small pieces and place in a common pan for aroma and taste, then mix the vegetables together and continue frying them at high heat on the stove.

6. STEP 6

   

   Pour four hundred milliliters of boiling water into the pan, then cover the pan with a lid and bring the vegetables to a boil.

7. STEP 7

   

   As soon as the vegetables in the pan boil, reduce the temperature of the stove to minimum, then cover the pan with a lid and continue cooking the vegetables for twenty minutes.

8. STEP 8

   

   To prepare croutons, take about one hundred and sixty grams of a white loaf and cut off the crust from it, then cut it into small random cubes.

9. STEP 9

   

   Take a frying pan and place it on the stove, then pour one tablespoon of vegetable oil into it, add thirty grams of butter and heat it, then put one finely chopped clove of garlic into the frying pan and stir-fry.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place the chopped pieces of loaf in a frying pan with garlic, then stir-fry them at high temperature on the stove until golden brown on each side.

11. STEP 11

    

    Place the cooked garlic croutons from the pan onto a plate.

12. STEP 12

    

    Pour salt and a mixture of ground peppers into the pan with vegetables to taste, add one-fourth of a teaspoon of ground nutmeg and one teaspoon of dried herbs.

13. STEP 13

    

    Take an immersion blender and puree the vegetables in the saucepan until smooth and creamy.

14. STEP 14

    

    Pour one hundred milliliters of cream into the pan with the prepared cream soup and place it on the stove, then stirring, bring the soup to a boil and remove the pan from the stove.

15. STEP 15

    

    Pour the prepared puree soup into portioned bowls and serve with herbs and croutons.

16. STEP 16

    

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