No food waste this week. I judiciously froze and was a mercilous leftover pusher.
I even made my way through MORE roasted pumpkin, yes, the pumpkin that made up my Thanksgiving centrepiece. I have ONE more recipe to share for it (next week). Today I’ve got a gorgeous soup.
I’ve got three cups of frozen, roasted pumpkin.
In my nice heavy copper pot I sweated (in 1 T. of oil); 1/2 an onion, 1/2 an orange pepper and 1 medium carrot.
When the vegetables are soft I added 1/2 tsp. cardamon seeds.
2 tsp. curry powder.
My, now thawed, pumpkin.
Two frozen cubes of chopped cilantro (you can easily use a T. of freshly chopped) and enough chicken stock (you could easily use vegetable stock) to make a thick soup. I ended-up adding 5 cups.
When my soup was nice and warm I used an old chef’s trick and added a heaping tablespoon of butter. This gives your soup that unmistakable, silky richness that a great soup has in a restaurant.
Now to gild my lilly I took; 1 cup pumpkin seeds, 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 T. chilli powder. I toasted the whole thing in a non-stick pan until the brown sugar melted and coated the pumpkin seeds.
Hide these from your spouse.
Pour your soup into a pretty bowl and garnish with your spicy pepitos.
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YUMMY! I love pumpkin anything, even on a shoe LOL. You are so creative in the kitchen girl!
Hi! We were so excited and did the happy dance when we saw a new follower! Thought we would pop by and follow back. This soup looks so delicious. It's great to make new friends.
now this looks like a fantastic soup recipe!! YUM yum. Great for the holidays! We always have soup in bread bowls for Christmas Eve…maybe I'll contribute with this new one!
xoxo
Aarean
Wow, that looks amazing! I have some roasted pumpkin from my "harvest decor" sitting in the freezer and was wondering what to make with it. Now I know! Thanks for the great recipe.
This soup looks yummy and I'm looking forward to next weeks (oh, I guess that will three weeks from now) recipe.
No worries, still going to post food waste (or not-hopefully) naxt week. I'll go off the rails if I don't