If you want to learn how to make a pumpkin soup, learn a few options, because cooking really delicious pumpkin soup is not easy. The general principle is as follows. First, it is better to bake a pumpkin in an oven (in the form of slices) at an average temperature for 20 minutes. Next, pumpkin flesh can be wiped through a not too small sieve or kneaded with a fork (and it is better to treat it in a blender). Melt the butter in the saucepan and add the pumpkin puree, diluted with cow or goat milk, natural cream or table wine, water, broth and bring to a boil. Now you can add spices, salt, spicy herbs or make a sweet soup: add sugar or honey and crushed dried fruits, cinnamon, vanillin. Thoroughly mix and - soup is ready! Just give him to stand under the lid for 10-20 minutes.
Diversify the menu
Of course, you can add other vegetables to unsweetened pumpkin soup: potatoes, carrots, ginger root, various kinds of onions, broccoli, hummus, etc. You can add boiled meat or pieces of boiled fish fillet. If we prepare a cream soup, all components are wiped or processed in a blender. It is very tasty to season this soup with light wine. Unsweetened pumpkin cream soup can be seasoned with crushed herbs, crushed garlic and ground red pepper. Ready-made pumpkin soup can be served with croutons, dumplings, meatballs and even nuts.
Pumpkin soup with cheese
Pumpkin soup with cheese is also very tasty. To make this soup, any pumpkin soup with sprinkled with hard cheese should be sprinkled with each dish. So pumpkin soup will get a more refined taste. If the cheese is grated less and added to the hot soup, the dish will get thicker and more viscous.
Add the cream
Pumpkin soup with cream can be prepared according to the following recipe.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of pulp pulp;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 100-130 grams of natural milk cream;
- greenery;
- salt, pepper, garlic.
Preparation:
Pumpkin flesh is cut into small cubes and filled with boiling water or broth in the saucepan. Salt and cook for about 15 minutes. Add the ground or pounded hot red pepper. Peeled onions shall be finely chopped, carrots shall be rubbed on medium or coarse grater and slightly saved in a separate frying pan in cream or vegetable oil. Add the dressing to the soup and cook for 4-5 minutes. Let's add cream. Let's take a blender. Let's brew for 10 minutes. Let's serve the soup, seasoning it with peeled pumpkin seeds, chopped herbs and garlic.
Dietary option
Dietary pumpkin soup helps to keep weight at the desired level.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of pulp pulp;
- 2 tomatoes;
- a little vegetable oil;
- 1 stalk of leek (or 1 onion);
- 2 cloves garlic;
- greens of celery;
- parsley, etc .;
- slightly 10% cream.
Preparation:
You can use fennel fruit, ginger root, hot red pepper and dry spices. It is better not to salt. We warm up the oil in the saucepan, add the pumpkin, cut into small cubes, and chopped onions (if you like, crushed fennel fruit, etc.). Passer for about 8 minutes on low heat. Add the grated carrots, blanched (scalded with boiling water and peeled) tomatoes, greens, and also a little water, so that the vegetables were completely covered. Boil on low heat for another 10 minutes. Finished soup season with crushed herbs, pepper and garlic. Slightly cool and work in a blender. When serving, fill with cream and decorate with parsley sprigs.
Pumpkin and squash soup puree
This soup is prepared in the same way as in the recipes given above, but instead of the norm of pulp pulp we take pulp of pumpkin + pulp of zucchini (1: 1 or 1: 2 - as more like it).
Spicy pumpkin soup
Ingredients:
- 400 grams of pulp pulp;
- 1 onion;
- 1 red sweet pepper;
- 1 fennel fruit;
- 1-2 tomatoes;
- 2-4 cloves of garlic;
- a little oil (sunflower or melted creamy);
- 1 liter of chicken (or turkey) broth;
- 30 ml of sherry or Madera;
- red hot pepper;
- salt;
- rosemary, basil, Provencal herbs.
Preparation:
Cooking is based on the principle described in the above recipes. We work in a blender and serve, filling with cream, wine and grated cheese. You can add a little boiled meat (chicken, turkey, boiled lamb) or even boiled fish (fillet of pike perch or perch) before processing in a blender. Such a soup will be very refined, it is good to serve wine, the one by which it was tucked.