Pumpkin as an ideal ingredient for preparing first courses. Soup-puree recipe with photos and videos. What additional ingredients can I add to it?
Contents of the recipe with a photo:
- Ingredients
- How to make pumpkin puree soup step by step
- Video recipes
On the eve of the rainy autumn, nature presents us with bright colors: an elegant carpet of fallen leaves, crops in the fields, bright pumpkins in our kitchens. This is a gourmet paradise - the time for mashed soups with an autumn accent.
Pumpkin puree soup is one of the most delicate options for first courses. This vegetable has an unobtrusive but rich aroma, adds spice to dishes and improves appetite. And thanks to the vitamins, minerals and other elements it contains, it makes food necessary when the autumn blues comes, as it is a wonderful anti-stress agent, enriches the body with useful substances, strengthens the immune system, allows you to better cope with viruses and colds.
Pumpkin puree soup is indicated for people on a diet, as it saturates the body well, but at the same time is low in calories. Also, the vegetable will help to normalize the activity of the intestinal tract, improve the metabolic processes of the body.
Pumpkin puree soups are very useful for children, as they are of great benefit in the formation of the child's body, because it contains a huge amount of vitamins of the B, C, E, PP groups and, probably, the most useful carotene, according to the content of which the vegetable is second place after carrots.
Another wonderful "ability" of pumpkin is to combine with other vegetables, so tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, bell peppers can be added to the puree soup if desired. There are many recipes for preparing this wonderful dish, each housewife has her own trump card and her own "zest". But if you are a lover of classic cuisine, then you will surely appreciate our recipe for pumpkin puree soup with a photo properly.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 62 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 0.5 kg
- Onions - 100 g
- Cream - 150 g
- Sunflower seeds - 50 g
- Salt - 10 g
- Allspice black pepper - 10 g
- Sunflower oil - 50 g
How to make pumpkin puree soup step by step
1. We will start the preparation of a fragrant dish, in fact, with the processing of the pumpkin itself. We wash it under running water, remove the tail.
2. Free from seeds, peel. If the skin is tough, in order to avoid injury, it is worth dividing the vegetable into parts and peeling the skin from smaller pieces.
3. Peel the onion, divide it into quarters, and thinly slice.
4. We also cut the pumpkin into small cubes.
5. Pour sunflower oil into a preheated pan, it should be taken a little so that the vegetables do not absorb an excessive amount of fat. Lay out the chopped onion and pumpkin and pass them through.
6. Put the sautéed vegetables in a cooking pot. Pour some water into the container, boil the vegetables for 5-7 minutes.
7. Separate the resulting broth from the vegetables in a separate cup, and chop the pumpkin and onion to a puree state using an immersion blender. We introduce into the finished puree of broth so much that a creamy soup is obtained, the consistency of the dish is adjusted to your liking.
8. In a small frying pan, fry the sunflower seeds.
9. In the puree soup, add salt, black pepper and slightly warmed cream to your taste. Mix everything thoroughly.
10. Put the pumpkin cream soup with cream in large deep serving plates, decorate with fried sunflower seeds. Serve on the table. Bon Appetit!
The best additional ingredients for pumpkin puree soup are mushrooms, herbs, spices, croutons, ham. And to give it the most delicate texture, you should add cream to the almost finished dish. It is strange that such a recipe for pumpkin puree soup, so tasty and healthy, is still not appreciated in our country, because, despite the fact that the birthplace of this fruit is Central America, namely Mexico, the magnificent orange fruits have perfectly adapted to our climate, ripen well, give a plentiful harvest. And you can cook from them not only puree soup, but also many delicious dishes - cereals, pancakes, pies, juices, you can even just bake pumpkin to the oven, after pouring honey on it. You can also make a trendy soufflé, smoothie or ice cream. Even seeds are useful in a vegetable, and the older it is, the more useful the latter.
Video recipes for making pumpkin puree soup
1. How to make pumpkin puree soup:
2. Recipe for pumpkin cream soup with cream:
