Pumpkin Soup #1
Ingredients
Squash or Pumpkin
4 TBL Olive oil
scant Salt
1 tsp White Pepper
1 tsp Clove
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Caramom
1 tsp Thyme
18 OZ Vegetable Stock
1 can crushed tomatoes
Sage Twigs
2 TBL maple syrup OR honey OR sugar
1/4 CU cider vinegar
Instructions
1. Cut and deseed your squash (see Toasted Pumpkin Seeds)
2. Cut into two inch cubes (leaving skin on)
3. Toss in bowl with olive oil and spices (excluding Sage)
4. Put on sheet pan, set foil over top, and cook @ 350 degrees for 45 minutes
5. Remove skin and puree soft meat
6. Mix with Vegetable Stock and tomatoes in large sauce pan
7. Add sage twigs and turn heat to high (time to move quickly…)
8. Add maple syrup OR honey OR sugar
9. After about 2 minutes from the time you turned heat up, remove sage twigs, add dolop of butter and serve
… OR mix melted butter into soup, and put milk into blender to create foam that goes nicely on top of pumpkin soup
Garnish with nutmeg
Special Steps
Squash should sound solid, not hollow.
Pumpkin Soup #2
Ingredients
Leek (white part only)
Pumpkin pieces
Nutmeg
Stock
Instructions
1. Sauté leek, add pumpkins pieces, nutmeg and stock to cover.
2. Bring to heat (done), blender. Crushed cookie on top.
Special Steps
Serve with ginger cookies
Pumpkins Soup #3
Ingredients
Pumpkin
Cloves
Olive oil
Salt
Cinnamon
Broth
Whole sage
Butter
Milk
nutmeg
Instructions
1. Toss pumpkin pieces with olive oil, salt, cloves, cinnamon.
2. Arrange down on sheet pan.
3. Bake at 325° for 45 min.
4. Puree broth, whole sage for 5 min – remove sage. Top with milk foam, butter, nutmeg.
Special Steps
Peel & deseed and cut into 1” pieces pumpkin
