What better way to celebrate Halloween and keep warm at the same time than with this tasty, healthy recipe for pumpkin soup.
Pumpkin soup with sage
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
- 1 small pumpkin (about 1.2 kg)
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 6 cloves garlic
- 12 whole fresh sage leaves
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 small bunch parsley, coarsely chopped
- 2 litre chicken or vegetable stock
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 dash white wine vinegar
- 1 piece aged Gouda cheese, cubed
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh sage
Preperation Method:
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 1 hour 5 mins
1. Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5.
2. Cut pumpkin in half and scrape out seeds. Brush with 2 tablespoons olive oil and place garlic in the cavity. Place onto greased baking tray, cut side down. Bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes until the pumpkin is soft.
3. Heat 4 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan until it almost smokes. Fry the sage leaves for about 1 minute, until they are browned but not black. Drain on kitchen towels. Keep olive oil in the pan.
4. Allow pumpkin to cool slightly and scrape out pumpkin flesh.
5. Reheat olive oil in pan and sauté onion until soft and translucent, about 8 minutes. Add thyme, chopped sage and parsley. Sauté for an additional 5 minutes.
6. Add pumpkin flesh and stock and cook for 25 minutes on low heat. Puree soup and season with salt, pepper and vinegar.
7. Ladle soup into soup bowls and add some of the fried sage leaves and Gouda to each bowl. Serve immediately.
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