Curried Pumpkin Soup Recipe

Curried Pumpkin Soup

From riche 14 years ago

The soup is an orchestra of the ingredients. Except for the salt and water, each ingredient needs to be heard in its own way.

Instructions:
In a Dutch oven (big pot) heat the olive oil and slightly caramelize the onions. Don’t over do it, about 20 minutes, just bring out the caramel taste and leave juicy . Deglaze with a little chicken broth if needed and add ingredients 3-7 and sauté 1 minute. Add pumpkin, water, chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and stir in coconut milk, lime juice, salt and simmer 25 minutes stir often. Remove from heat and let cool so you don’t burn your fingers while processing.
Process in small batches in a blender until smooth. I put each processed batch into my crock pot to keep it warm and serve it from there. Generally I’m going to a party so the crock pot works well. I bring little paper cups to serve. It seems to taste a little better heated up the next day.
Notes:
#1 Sweet, tender, and fresh is the key. I like white more than yellow or Vidalia.
#4 I prefer ground, fresh ginger seemed to be a bit overpowering.
#6 I don’t grind the red pepper flakes. That way it keeps the heat and pumpkin separate.
#7 You do need to grind cumin seed into fine powder. It works better than ground cumin off the shelf.
#8-9 I found 1 can of plain pumpkin and one of spicy is just right otherwise it taste too much like pumpkin pie or not enough like pumpkin.
#15 I don’t garnish, it seems to take away from the pumpkin. The soup is an orchestra of the ingredients. Except for the salt and water, each ingredient needs to be heard in its own.
Enjoy.

What do you think?

Add a Link?

Post a link to another recipe or group by pasting the url into the box where you want it to show up. We'll do the rest.

If you made this, attach a rating to your comments.

How Good Was It?

Post Message or cancel

" It was excellent "
elgourmand ate it and said...
Pumpkins we got by the acre & I've run out of new ways to fix them. This looks good, I keep forgetting about soup. Soup doesn't come to mind here like it does when there is snow on the ground. A votra Sante (good health)
Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
22566 14 years ago
~Exceptional~

Thank-you

Kind Regards
Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
" It was excellent "
minitindel ate it and said...
ohhhhh yeah bring it on i love this soup its delicious !!! thank u

tink
Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
" It was excellent "
maureenlaw ate it and said...
Sounds wonderful! Thanks for the great recipe.
Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
joe1155 14 years ago
This sounds great!
Was this review helpful? Yes Flag

riche Fort Worth, TX

Subscribe to My Recipes

Like riche's recipes? Never miss an upload!

Reviewed by 3 people

Pumpkins we got by the acre & I've run out of new ways to fix them. This looks good, I keep forgetting about soup. Soup doesn't come to mind here like it does when there is snow on the ground. A votra Sante (good health)

elgourmand in Apia loved it
ohhhhh yeah bring it on i love this soup its delicious !!! thank u

tink

minitindel in THE HEART OF THE WINE COUNTRY loved it
Sounds wonderful! Thanks for the great recipe.

maureenlaw in ST LOUIS loved it