Butternut Pumpkin Soup

Dear Pumpkin,

I love you so much!!

Sincerely,
Soup-ie

You love pumpkin soup?

I love'em!!

I wanted something comforting yesterday, and w/o doubting too much i made pumpkin soup for myself... and will make them more often start from today! it was a really satisfying light dinner which has brought me to a wonderful lala land and i danced with a pumpkin head, NIGHTMARE!! (*just kid)...hehe..

I Love You, Pumpkin!!


I love chunky soup with vegie bits, so I....

left some sauteed brown onion to be added in the soup, as well as some mushroom and zucchini...

I topped the soup with few of coriander leaves just because i think orange and green would be so matching... haaaa!

Butternut Pumpkin Soup

Serve 2-3 (depends on how much you love pumpkin soup)

Ingredients:

Half of medium Butternut Pumpkin (approx 1 kg on a halved pumpkin)

1 Brown Onion, diced

2 Garlic cloves, minced

2 cubes Vegetable Stock

1 tbsp Olive Oil

Dash of Pepper

Dash of Nutmeg

Water for boiling (you can adjust the water depends on how creamy you want your Pumpkin Soup to be)*

Mushroom slices (optional)

Zucchini slices (optional)

Coriander leaves for garnish (totally optional)

* i used roughly 750 ml water to simmer my pumpkin

Method:

• Peel off the pumpkin skin, cubed
• Bring water to boil
• Add in pumpkin in a hot boiling water, simmer until pumpkin has turned soft enough
• Set aside and cool down
• Dice brown onion and mince garlic
• Heat up oil in a pan, saute brown onion, garlic until soft, set aside (left some sauteed onion, if you like chunky soup)
• Transfer the chilled pumpkin cubes together with the sauteed onion and garlic to a food processor, adjust the water depends on your personal liking, blend to puree
• Transfer the pumpkin puree to a pot, boil on a medium low heat, add seasoning (vegetable cubes, pepper and nutmeg) to taste
• On the other hand, prepare the zucchini slices by boiling them (optional)
• Saute mushroom with the left sauteed brown onion until soft (optional)
• Add in cooked mushroom, zucchini slices to the pumpkin soup, mix (optional)
• Garnish with coriander leaves (optional)
• Serve warm

P.S : I am blogging at my working place * runnnnn.....*

Happy cooking!!

xoxo