Spooky Pumpkin Soup for Halloween
Serves 4
Easy
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Don't throw away the flesh you scoop out of your Halloween pumpkin! You can super-easily turn it into a nutritious soup – perfect for warming up trick-or-treaters who have come in from the cold
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- 50g butter
- 1 onionchopped
- 1kg pumpkin/butternut squashdeseeded and diced
- 2 garlic clovescrushed and finely chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 900ml vegetable stock
- 3 tbsp cream cheese
Method
step 1
Melt the butter in a large pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and fry gently until softened. Add the pumpkin/squash and cook for 5 minutes
step 2
Add the garlic and the bay leaf and then pour over the vegetable stock
step 3
Increase the heat and bring to the boil. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until the pumpkin is soft
step 4
Discard the bay leaf and stir in the cream cheese. Blend using a hand blender until smooth
step 5
Add salt and pepper to taste and ladle into bowls. Serve with a swirl (or a spider's web) of cream cheese, and some warm crusty bread.