Pumpkin soup

Jack-o-lantern

Halloween is near and I wanted to make my first jack-o-lantern ever. It turned out to look really nice for my first lantern J I guess people usually throws the inside of the pumpkin away but I decided to make a soup out of it.

1 pumpkin (you will need about 500 g of its meat for the soup)

2 carrots
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
Chili (fresh or powder)
1 dl cream
1 l of vegetable bouillon
Coriander
Salt
Pepper

Open the pumpkin on the top and use ice cream spoon to get the meat and the strings out. Wash the seeds and let them to dry. You can roast the seeds in the oven in 160 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Chop the onion and garlic and cook it lightly on a pan with oil (or butter) and chili for 1-2 minutes. Add the pumpkin meat and the carrots and cook the mix for few minutes. Add the bouillon and let it cook for 20 minutes. Mix the soup with a hand blender. If you use the hand blender you can use actually everything inside from the pumpkin, not the just the meat but also the “strings” where the seeds were.

Blend with hand blender



Use ice cream spoon
to take out the meat

What you need is...



Serve with coriander and
roasted pumpkin seeds

Add the cream and let it boil once. Taste with salt and pepper and serve with fresh coriander and roasted pumpkin seeds. Try the soup also with some goat cheese like chevre ;)
 

Happy Halloween!