Hearty Corn and Pumpkin Soup

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Description

This hearty soup is filled with mashed pumpkin, red potatoes, carrots, leeks, and corn.

Ingredients

1/3 cup olive oil
2 leeks, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
9 cups chicken broth
5 small red potatoes, diced
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
ground black pepper to taste
2 (16 ounce) cans pumpkin puree
1 (16 ounce) package frozen whole-kernel corn
1/2 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley, or to taste

Directions

1 Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir leeks and carrots in hot oil until softened, 5 to 10 minutes.
2 Stir chicken broth into leek mixture; bring to a boil. Add potatoes, salt, cloves, and pepper; boil until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes.
3 Pour pumpkin puree into a large bowl. Stir 1 cup of broth and potatoes mixture into pumpkin.
4 Pour pumpkin mixture, corn, and milk into chicken broth mixture in the large pot. Stir to combine and simmer until heated through and flavors blend, at least 5 minutes. Sprinkle individual servings with parsley.