Pumpkin soup with lemongrass

You can add the chilis already in the start or
then as a topping to the soup.

I usually buy pumpkins on Halloween but now I wanted to try pumpkin soup made of bottle pumpkins.

I had one pumpkin but I guess it was roughly a kilo.

Colourful ingredients.

1 kg bottle pumpkin
(half a red chili)
2-3 thumb size slices of fresh ginger
1 stilk of lemongrass
2 shallots
2 garlic cloves
2 carrots
olive oil
juice of a half a lemon
salt
pepper
1 l vegetable buillon
0,5-1 dl cream

Cut and slice all the vegetable and dice the pumpkin. Cook with olive oil on a medium fire chili, ginger, lemongrass, shallots, garlic and carrots for 2 minutes (do not let the vegetable to burn). Add the diced pumpkin and cook for couple of more minutes. Add the vegetable buillon and let it boil on medium fire until the pumpkin is cooked.

Boil the vegetable until the pumpkin is
cooked.

Use a hand mixer to make the vegetables into a smooth puré. Add the cream according to your taste. Season with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

I also had fried chicken and pumpkin seeds in this soup but this is optional.