Vegetarian Biological Pumpkin Soup
Why Biological? Because the pumpkin was biologically produced, you can use any kind of pumpkin that is made for eating. Not just any pumpkin is suitable for soups. I also did this entirely out of feeling and taste so I wouldn’t know what kind of proportions I used.
Why Biological? Because the pumpkin was biologically produced, you can use any kind of pumpkin that is made for eating. Not just any pumpkin is suitable for soups. I also did this entirely out of feeling and taste so I wouldn’t know what kind of proportions I used.
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I served about 12 – 13 people with it and they had seconds.. and thirds.. and fourths.
What you need:
Latex gloves or just gloves for the pumpkin
Spoon
Staff mixer
Chef knife
Cutting board
Soup pan
Ingredients:
I used about three or four small pumpkins that are bright orange.
4 - 5 garlic cloves
3 large onions
1 large carrot
Fresh Basil bush
1 or 2 vegetable stock per litre (I varied from this)
What to do before cooking:
1.) The first step is the hardest, cleaning the pumpkin is hard work and make sure you use the gloves because they stain like mad. You simply cut it in half, and using the spoon scoop out the filling till you scrape the flesh. Now carefully, using the chef knife, carve at the outlayer, taking the skin off like a peeler. Do this slowly and bit by bit.
2.) Once you have the pumpkin cleaned up you can cut it in small cubes. The smaller it is the faster it cooks.
3.) Peel the onions and roughly cut them.
4.) Clean the carrot and cut it up in cubes as well, remember the smaller the faster it will cook.
5.) Peal the garlic.
What to do while cooking:
1.) Heat up a little bit of oil in the soup pan.
2.) Throw in the pumpkins and let it cook for about 5-10 minutes. Then add the carrots, again 5-10 minutes then add the onions.
3.) Throw in about ¾ of the basil let it cook for about 2 minutes.
4.) This is the tricky bit, try to use it at your own feel but I added about a litre of water and about 2 – 3 vegetable stock cubes (whatever the instructions tell you, different products gives you different instructions)
5.) Blitz it with the staff mixer. If you don’t have this, use a blender. Works as well.
6.) If you hadn’t added enough water do so now, your goal is to get a thick consistency that looks like blended broccoli. Don’t ask =P
7.) Use the remaining leaves as decorations.
