2021 Soups and Salads

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 tb butter
  • 1 cup onion, chopped
  • 3 T all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp curry powder
  • 1/4 tsp cumin
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 cup peeled and cubed sweet potato
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 14-oz cans of chicken broth or vegetable stock
  • 1 and 1/2 cups of cooked and pureed pumpkin or 1 15 0z can of pumpkin
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tb fresh lime juice

Recipe

  1. Melt butter in a Dutch oven or large saucepan over medium-high heat. Saute onion for 3-4 minutes then add flour, curry, cumin and nutmeg and saute for 1 minute.
  2. Add sweet potato, salt, chicken broth and pumpkin and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, partially covered for about 20-25 minutes or until sweet potatoes are cooked through and softened. Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes to cool.
  3. Place half of the pumpkin mixture in a blender and process until smooth. Using a strainer, pour soup back into pan. Repeat with rest of soup.
  4. Raise heat to medium then stir in milk and cook for 5 minutes or until soup is heated through.
  5. Remove from heat and add lime juice.

This article uses material from the Wikibooks article “Cookbook:Spiced Pumpkin Soup“, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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