Pizza soup

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To make pizza-flavored soup, we will need about the same set of products as for baking, only instead of dough we will take broth. Bacon is better to take raw smoked - it is more fragrant and its taste is more pronounced, and this is important for our soup. You can take chicken or beef broth. Chicken is more neutral, and beef is more pronounced in taste. I used beef broth. You can replace the broth with pure water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash and dry the vegetables. Cut the zucchini into thin semicircles.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the bell pepper from the seeds and stalks and cut into strips. Pepper color can be any. I took the green one to make the soup look contrasting.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the bacon into strips. I already had the bacon sliced, but the slices were too long, and I cut them in half.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cut large mushrooms into slices, medium – in half or quarters, small ones can be left whole.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel the onion. You can add the onion to the soup as a whole and then take it out at the end of cooking, as I did, or finely chop and fry together with the rest of the vegetables (step 12).

7. Step 7:

   

   Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

8. Step 8:

   

   Cherry tomatoes can be added to the soup whole or cut in half.

9. Step 9:

   

   Cut tomatoes in half and grate on a fine grater. As a result, you will get such a puree, and the skin will be cut off by itself. You can use ready-cut tomatoes in their own juice.

10. Step 10:

    

    Add ketchup and sugar to the tomato mass and mix.

12. Step 11:

    

    Heat the pan over high heat. Lay out strips of bacon and fry until crispy. In general, bacon can be fried in a separate frying pan, but if you have a suitable saucepan with a thick bottom, then you can cook soup in it from beginning to end.

13. Step 12:

    

    Transfer the bacon to a plate, trying to keep all the fat from it in the pan. This fat will be needed for frying vegetables.

14. Step 13:

    

    Add zucchini, mushrooms, sweet pepper and whole or chopped onion to the pan. Fry, stirring, over high heat for about 7 minutes. At the end, lightly salt everything.

15. Step 14:

    

    Pour a glass of broth (or water) to the vegetables.

16. Step 15:

    

    Cover the pan with a lid and simmer all together for 5 minutes over medium heat.

17. Step 16:

    

    Add cherry tomatoes to the pan. Pour in the remaining broth or water and add the tomato mixture. Mix everything well. Bring to a boil and cook the soup for another 10-15 minutes until the vegetables are ready, periodically removing the foam.

18. Step 17:

    

    Put the fried bacon in a saucepan, leaving a few slices to serve and stir.

19. Step 18:

    

    Then turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let the soup stand for 10 minutes.

20. Step 19:

    

    Pour the soup on plates. Add the remaining fried bacon and grated cheese to each and serve to the table. Bon appetit!