Recipes for Halloween: pumpkin soups

Cream-soup of pumpkin

To make a soup pumpkin soup for Halloween, you will need:

• 
  6 tbsp. vegetable broth (~ 1.5 liters)


• 
  1 pumpkin


• 
  500 g pulp of pulp


• 
  1 onion


• 
  2 cloves of garlic


• 
  5 pips of chili peppers


• 
  1 potato


• 
  120 ml of creamy cream


• 
  1.5 tsp salt


• 
  oil for the lubrication of pumpkin


• 
  sliced ​​greens, grated cheese - to taste

First, prepare a "pot of soup." To do this, you need to cut the pumpkin and clean the flesh out of it in the same way as when making a pumpkin lantern. Cut off the pumpkin cover (it will be about one-third the height of the pumpkin). Take out the seeds and gently clean the pulp - it will go to make soup. Temporarily put aside your "soup tureen" aside and start dealing directly with soup.

Pumpkin flesh cut into cubes with a side in1,5-2 cm. If the pumpkin you took for soup is not large enough, and 500 g of pulp is not typed, you can take the pulp from another pumpkin. Onions peel and finely chop or even rub. Potatoes, too, peel and cut into small cubes, and garlic through garlic crochet.

Put the saucepan on the fire with the vegetable broth. As soon as the soup boils, put pumpkin pulp, potatoes, onions, garlic, chili and salt into it. Bring the broth back to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 40 minutes. Close the stewpan lid is not necessary.

While the vegetables are being stewed, cook a soup bowl. Clean the pumpkin with oil (for this purpose it is convenient to use a culinary brush) and put in an oven, heated to 180 degrees. Pumpkin should be baked for about half an hour. When the pumpkin is ready, do not rush to get it out of the oven - it should stay warm until you pour soup into it.

From the stew in the broth of pulp pulp make mashed potatoes(you can use a blender for this), put it back in the saucepan and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Then add the pre-warmed cream in the puree and pour the soup into the baked pumpkin. You can sprinkle the finished cream soup with grated cheese or greens. Give cream soup of pumpkin hot, covering the lid.

Pumpkin cream soup

Another recipe for Halloween is pumpkin soup. To prepare this soup, take:

• 
  800 g pulp of pulp


• 
  700 ml of broth (meat or vegetable)


• 
  200 ml cream


• 
  150 grams of ham


• 
  1 large onion


• 
  2 cloves of garlic


• 
  2 tablespoons vegetable oil


• 
  40 g of butter


• 
  1 medium potatoes


• 
  2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds (fried)


• 
  1 tsp grated ginger root


• 
  0.5 tsp curry powder


• 
  ground black pepper, salt, dill, parsley - to taste

Chop the onion and garlic, and cut the pumpkin pulpsmall cubes, as in the previous recipe. Peel potatoes and finely chop. Vegetable oil pour into a pan and melt it creamy. Onion, garlic, curry and ginger put into a saucepan. Eat vegetables with seasonings until they become soft. Garlic should not start burning!

Add to the onions and garlic pumpkin and potatoes,pour the vegetables with broth. Broth should cover vegetables. Boil the soup over a low heat. When the pumpkin and potatoes are soft, drain most of the liquid. But do not pour out the broth at all, but just pour it into a separate bowl - it can be useful to you. Rub the vegetables to mash. Ham cut into thin strips and lightly fry. Add in the puree half of the fried ham, cream, salt, pepper and dill.

Move the mashed potatoes and put it on the fire again. The soup should be heated, but in no case boil, otherwise the cream will curdle. If the soup is too thick, dilute it with the broth that you drained. After pouring the prepared soup-puree on serving plates, sprinkle it with the remaining ham, parsley and toasted pumpkin seeds.

Of course, with these two recipes the variety of dishesfrom the pumpkin is not limited. For dessert, for example, you can make a pumpkin casserole. And be sure to take care of decorating the dishes to create a unique atmosphere of the holiday - then the celebration of Halloween will pass without a hitch, without a hitch and will be remembered for a long time.

Bon Appetit!