Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin soup is a healthy and tasty soup made with pumpkin chunks and vegetable broth. Pumpkin soup recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Pumpkin Soup.

Ingredients:-

Pumpkin .            -a small
Vegetable stock.   -1 or 2 cup
Onion.                   -1 large.
Garlic cloves.        -6
Ginger chopped.    -1tbsp
Red chilly powder.-1/2 tsp
Pepper powder.      -1/2 tsp
Salt.                        -to taste.
Oil.                         -1tbsp

Instructions:-

Cut and remove the outer skin and seeds of a small pumpkin and chop it into medium thick chunks. Finely chop onion. Chop garlic and ginger into small pieces. Keep the above ingredients on a plate.

Method:-

1). Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wide bottom pan. Add chopped garlic cloves and ginger pieces into the pan and saute well.

2). Add finely chopped onion into the pan and saute well till onion turns soft and light golden colour.

3). Add chopped pumpkin chunks into the pan and mix with the sauted ginger garlic onion mixture and saute well on low flame.

4). Add red chilli powder and required salt into the pan and mix well.

5). Add 1 cup vegetable stock into the pan and mix well. Boil and cook pumpkin chunks till tender. Switch off the flame and gently mash the cooked pumpkin chunks with a masher. Allow the cooked pumpkin vegetable stock mixture to cool.

 

 

 6). Once cooled put the pumpkin vegetable stock mixture to a mixer grinder and grind to a smooth pumpkin puree.

 

 

7). Pour the ground pumpkin puree to a bowl.Sprinkle pepper powder over the pumpkin soup and mix well.

 

Add more vegetable stock to thin the soup and blend it well. Healthy and tasty Pumpkin Soup is ready.