Pumpkin soup - 10 recipes

Pumpkin is a delicious healthy vegetable that can be called universal. Hundreds of various dishes are prepared from it - for the first, second and dessert. Especially delicious are pumpkin soups.

Pumpkin cream soup with cream

Ingredients: carrots, a glass of chicken broth, coarse salt, a glass of low-fat cream, 2 potatoes, a pound of fresh or frozen pumpkin, 60-70 g of cheese, fresh garlic, onion.

1. The main vegetable is washed, gets rid of seeds and peel, it is not large-sized. Onions are chopped in half rings. The remaining vegetables are chopped randomly in medium slices.
2. In a pan with a thick bottom on preheated fat, onions with crushed garlic are fried. The amount of the latter is chosen to taste.
3. Then the carrot is transferred to the container. Together, the ingredients languish until soft.
4. It remains to add pumpkins and potatoes. Immediately after this, the components are filled with broth and salted. You can add any aromatic herbs.
5. On low heat under the lid, all vegetables in the broth are stewed for 15-17 minutes.
6. The resulting mass is crushed by a hand blender. She must be mashed.
7. After adding cream and grated cheese, the dish remains on the stove before the latter melts.

Serve pumpkin cream soup with cream to guests with peeled pumpkin seeds.

On meat broth

Ingredients: 2 stalks of celery, 320 g pumpkin pulp, onion, 380 g pork on the bone, 2-4 potatoes, fresh garlic to taste, a pinch of chili and salt.

1. The meat on the bone is well washed with water. Next, it is necessary to dry it with a paper towel and fry until a light crust appears on hot oil. Large pieces of garlic and onion are laid out next to the cooked pork.The latter should be charred and saturated with oil.
2. The contents of the pan are transferred to salted boiling water (about 2 liters) along with coarsely chopped celery and pepper. With moderate drilling, the mass is boiled for about half an hour.
3. Next, potato bars are placed in the broth and cooking continues until the vegetable softens.
4. It remains to add to the soup lightly fried cubes of pumpkin pulp. Then the dish remains on fire for another 8-9 minutes. If necessary, it is added.
5. All the thick is extracted from the broth. The liquid is filtered. Garlic, onions, potatoes and pumpkin are mashed and laid out back. The meat returned to the pan is cut into pieces. Celery is thrown out. It is needed only for the flavor of a treat.

Soup is served on meat broth with a lot of finely chopped greens.

Appetizing Shrimp Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients: a pound of pumpkin, coarse salt, 1 carrot, 340 g of shrimp, fresh garlic to taste, 170 ml of fat cream, a handful of pumpkin seeds, 3 large tablespoons of grated parmesan, a mixture of peppers, olive oil.

1. Pumpkin is cleaned of all unnecessary. All that remains is the pulp, which needs to be cut into small pieces and sent to cook.
2. Cut into circles a pumpkin, sliced ​​carrots, salt, a mixture of peppers. Together, the vegetables are boiled until completely softened.
3. At this time, seafood is cleaned of shells, get rid of the heads and intestinal wreaths on the tail. Then they are coarsely cut and fried in well-heated olive oil. Immediately add the crushed garlic to the shrimp and add a little salt.
4. Vegetables in a saucepan are mashed. To do this, you can use not only an immersion blender, but also an ordinary pusher for potatoes. If the soup is thick, you can dilute it with boiling water to the desired consistency.
5. The cream is the last to pour into the dish. After that, you need to warm it up for a couple of minutes, but do not bring to a boil.

This pumpkin soup with fried shrimp, pumpkin seeds and grated parmesan is served to guests.

With chicken and potatoes

Ingredients: 230 g chicken (on the bone), 240 g fresh pumpkin pulp, large onion, 2 each. carrots and potatoes, coarse salt, any spices, 3-4 dill stalks.

1. Chicken goes to cook with 1 onion, carrot and coarsely chopped dill stalks.
2. From the remaining vegetables (onions and carrots) a frying is prepared.
3. Cubes of pumpkin and potato are laid out in the prepared broth, onions and stalks of dill are thrown out. When new vegetables soften, the mass is removed from the heat and mashed. Roasting and spices are added to it.
4. The meat is extracted from the broth, stripped, torn into fibers and returned.

Pumpkin soup with chicken is fully prepared. It is served to the table with fat cream.

In pots

Ingredients: 2 large spoons of noodles, 2-3 potatoes, a pound of chicken legs, 160 g of pumpkin pulp, half an onion, carrot, salt, seasonings.

1. The potato is peeled, washed, diced and boiled until half cooked in water with any seasonings and chicken legs. You can use leaves of parsley, peas of hot pepper or any other. Be sure to add salt.
2. Pumpkin is cleaned of everything superfluous, cut into small pieces and, together with carrots chopped in any convenient way, laid out in pots in equal portions.
3. Small onion cubes are distributed on top.
4. Next, cooked potatoes, dry noodles and off-the-shelf prepared chicken meat are laid out.
5. Ground is poured with broth.
6. A couple of centimeters should remain to the edge of the container so that when boiling, the soup does not leak out.

The dish will languish in the oven under the covers at an average temperature of about 50 minutes.

With meatballs

Ingredients: medium pumpkin, 5-7 garlic cloves, a mixture of dried rosemary, thyme and colored peppers, a glass of fat cream, a pound of chicken, fine salt, onion.

1. The pumpkin is washed, coarsely cut with the skin, sprinkled with salt, seasonings and sent to bake in the oven until softened.
2. The flesh is carefully separated from the peel, laid out in a saucepan, mashed and heated over low heat. If necessary, you can add a little boiling water to the vegetable mass.
3. Stuffing is passed through a meat grinder with garlic and onions, salted. From it miniature meatballs are formed, which should be fried until golden brown on any heated fat. They must be fully prepared.
4. Cream is poured into the vegetable puree, if necessary, an additional portion of salt is added. The mass is brought to a boil and immediately removed from the fire.
5. Hot meat balls are transferred to the hot soup.

Let the refreshment infuse for several minutes, after which they can be treated to home. If you need to decorate a dish, you should use chopped greens for this.

Tender recipe with cheese

Ingredients: 2-3 garlic cloves, 170 g cream cheese, medium carrots, coarse salt, half a liter of chicken stock, 420 g pumpkin pulp, onion, granulated garlic, dry chili.

1. Pumpkin is cut into thick layers and laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment. It must be baked until soft in a well-heated oven. The whole process will take about 25 minutes.
2. For soup, you should choose a pan with a thick bottom. Any fat is heated in it. Best of all, butter. Coarsely grated carrots with onions chopped in any convenient way are fried on it. Granular garlic is immediately added here. Together, the vegetables are fried until soft and golden.
3. Baked pumpkin, seasoning is transferred to the pan, seasoning, salt is added. Poured broth. The mixture is mashed.
4. The resulting pumpkin cream soup is brought back to a boil. Processed cheese sliced ​​in slices is laid out in a hot mass.

After thorough mixing, the treat is served on the table with homemade garlic croutons.

Multicooked Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients: half a liter of strong meat broth, a pound of pumpkin, 230 g of potato tubers, leek (2 pcs.), Large carrots, 3-5 garlic cloves, coarse salt, a mixture of peppers.

1. In a program designed for baking, any oil is heated. On it, peeled garlic is fried.
2. Next, peeled and coarsely chopped other vegetables are laid out in the container. In the same program, they are fried for 8-9 minutes.
3. The device is put into quenching mode, the contents of the tank are filled with half the broth and cooked for about an hour.
4. When all the vegetables are boiled, they need to be knead well.
5. Gradually, the remaining broth is added to the mass until the dish acquires the desired consistency.
6. Salt and pepper are added.

A hot treat with freshly baked homemade bread is served.

Spicy first course with ginger

Ingredients: 780 g of peeled pumpkin pulp, granulated garlic, large onion, 700 ml of filtered water, 2-4 cm of ginger root, a small piece of chili pepper, a pinch of ground cinnamon, salt.

1. Any oil is heated in a pan, on which coarsely chopped garlic and onions are fried until a characteristic aroma appears.
2. Large cubes of pumpkin pulp pour out from above. After 3-4 minutes, water is poured into the container. She should not completely cover the vegetables. In the process of languishing, the pumpkin itself will give the right amount of liquid.
3. When all the vegetables have softened, salt, slices of pepper, finely grated ginger root and cinnamon are sent to them. After another 6-7 minutes of cooking, the pan is removed from the heat and left to stand under the lid for 10-12 minutes.
4. It remains only to mashed the mass and add salt if necessary.

A treat is served with sour cream and ground black pepper.

Original pumpkin soup

Ingredients: 2 medium pumpkins and one large, 430 ml of chicken broth, coarse salt, half a glass of very fat cream, a pinch of nutmeg, 1/3 cup maple syrup.

1. Medium pumpkins are sent entirely to the oven, warmed to medium temperature. They need to be laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and baked until the vegetables are soft and slightly wrinkled.
2. From the cooled fruit, all the flesh is extracted and transferred to the pan. Maple syrup, broth is poured on top, salt is added. The mass is boiled for 3-4 minutes, after which it is crushed with a submersible blender to a state of homogeneous puree.
3. Cream and nutmeg are added. The mixture is pureed again until smooth.

The soup is heated, poured into a hollowed pumpkin (without pulp) and immediately served on the table.