recipe

Soup...
You may have noticed in the photos from my last post we picked a small harvest of lemons and pumpkins from our backyard.  

Last night I made a simple pumpkin soup with one pumpkin and I also saved some pumpkin to make pumpkin scones.  Enjoy. 

Pumpkin Soup

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 35 minutes

Serves: 4-6

40g butter

1 large brown onion, chopped coarsely

1.5kg pumpkin, chopped coarsely

2 large potatoes, chopped coarsely

1 litre chicken stock

½ cup cream

1.    Melt butter in large saucepan; cook onion, stirring, until soft.  Stir in pumpkin and potato; cook, stirring, 5 minutes.

2.   Stir in stock, bring to a boil; simmer, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until pumpkin is soft, stirring occasionally.

3.   Blend or process soup, until pureed.

4.   Just before serving, add cream; stir over heat until soup is hot.  Serve topped with a dollop of sour cream and a few chives, if desired. 

My Notes:

·    I often use less chicken stock liquid.  Using the pumpkin and potato in the saucepan as a guide, I only pour the chicken stock liquid to ½ way.  I find that if I cover saucepan with a lid and bring to the boil the pumpkin and potato reduces into the stock as it boils.  Once pureed, the soup is thick and you can add more water/chicken stock liquid for a consistency that you like if desired at the end. 

• I often leave out the cream, sour cream and chives altogether.
• Always make more as this is a great left over for lunch the next day. 
• This soup recipe also goes well served with garlic bread.