Easy vegetable and pasta soup

Easy vegetable and pasta soup

With bread of your choice, this soup is filling and healthy.  A very easy and tasty one-pot dinner. I use frozen vegetables and canned tomatoes. Of course you can use all fresh vegetables.

Cook and drain pasta. Cook the frozen vegetables with water and stock cubes. I do this in a pressure cooker. It takes just 5 minutes. Let it cool a bit. Puree half the cooked vegetables with the tomatoes in a blender. You can puree it all but the soup will be much thicker. Besides, we like to have those whole vegetables in the soup.

Heat the butter in a heavy bottom pan and sauté the flour for 2 minutes. Slowly add the milk to make a smooth sauce. Keep stirring well to avoid lumps. Combine the sauce with the cooked and pureed vegetables. Add the pasta and heat before serving.