Pumpkin soup

Why carve them when you can just eat them?

pumpkin-soup

Ingredients

  • 1.5 - 2kg pumpkin/butternut (net weight)
  • 1 large onion
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp black pepper and ½ salt
  • ⅛ tsp cloves
  • 1 litre vegetable stock (2 cubes)
  • 200ml coconut milk (you can freeze the other 200ml of a tin)
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup/honey
  • A sprinkling of pumpkin seeds
  1. Chop up and roast the pumpkin/butternut for 30 min in some olive oil.
  2. While waiting for that to roast, peel and chop up the onion and prepare the garlic, and get the stock ready.
  3. Fry up onion and garlic, then add in the butternut, spices, and stock.
  4. After about 15 minutes of simmering, blend.
  5. Give the can of coconut milk a good shake before opening it, and add in along with the syrup or honey just before serving. Dish into bowls and then sprinkle on some pumpkin seeds for style points.
  6. Serve with your homemade bread you made earlier.

Serves 6.

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