Spicy Pumpkin soup

Spicy Pumpkin soup

This a super easy recipe and takes very little time.

Now, if you have a soup maker, its great. If you don’t, use a pressure cooker, and a food processor.

I use the soup maker from Philips. It east to use and clean.

Let’s get the ingredients together!

Serves 2

1. Pumpkin, Chopped- 1 and ½ cup
2. Ginger, peeled and chopped- 1 tsp
3. Garlic, chopped- 1 tsp
4. Pepper-2 to 3 whole
5. Green chilli- 1
6. Chicken or vegetable broth- 2 cups (make it home or use a canned or tablet one, your choice) I use Knorr Chicken broth cubes.. I have given details below.
7. Turmeric- 1 pinch
8. Cinnamon powder
9. nutmeg powder
10. chopped onion – 1/4^th cup
11. Heavy cream- ¼th cup
12. Roasted pumpkin Seeds- around 25 or a handful
13. Olive oil/butter-1 tbsp
14. Honey- 1 tbsp
15. sea salt

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 220-degree C. Line a baking tray with parchment paper, brush oil on the pumpkins and roast for 15 mins. An alternative to roasting is to take a heavy bottom pan and heat it. Once very hot, lower the heat and put the oil brushed pumpkins in it. Keep stirring often to avoid burning and cook till roasted smell comes (approx. 15 to 20 minutes). The pumpkin should have brownish marks on the surface and not be burnt. The pulp should be semi-soft. Set it aside to cool.

Once the pumpkin is cool, mix all the ingredients together (besides the roasted pumpkin seeds, honey and the cream) and add in the soup maker. Start the soup maker and the soup base will be ready in a few minutes.

OR

If you don’t have a soup maker, add all the ingredients (besides the roasted pumpkin seeds, honey and the cream) in a Pressure cooker and let it cook for 2 whistles on low heat. Take the Ingredients out and grind it together in a food processor. The soup base is ready.

Add honey in the soup base and stir well.

Then add 3/4^th of the cream and mix with a spoon.

Transfer the mixture in serving bowls.

With a spoon, make swirls of cream on top.

Sprinkle the pumpkin seeds.

Serve hot!

Do let me know how you liked it.

lots of love,

Divya.

P.S. All the food pictures are taken by me at home, of food cooked by me at home.