Pumpkin has been a favourite to Indian dishes. Switch it up a bit and prepare this creamy pumpkin soup.
Ingredients
- 250 gm red pumpkin, with skin (keep seeds for garnish)
- 1 large onion, thinly sliced
- salt to taste
- 1 ½ cups medium thick coconut milk
- black pepper to taste
- water
Method
- Chop the red pumpkin into large chunks. Do not peel the pumpkin.
- Thinly slice the onion. Sauté the onions with a pinch of salt in a wok.
- Add the red pumpkin chunks.
- Add just a little water for the vegetables to cook without browning.
- Cover and leave to cook until the onions and pumpkin are soft.
- You can add lemongrass or kaffir lime leaves at this point if required.
- Blend the vegetable mixture into a smooth paste, retaining the water released from the cooking, if any. Do not strain.
- Pour the blended mixture back into the cooking vessel to heat.
- Just before serving, remove the soup from the heat and add the coconut milk.
- Do not allow the soup to boil once you have added the coconut milk.
- Pour as much milk as required, depending on the desired creaminess and thickness of the soup.
- Add crushed black pepper.
- Garnish with parsley or roasted pumpkin seeds.
- Marinate the pumpkin seeds in lime juice and salt, and then bake in the oven until seeds are crisp and toasted.
- Sprinkle as a garnish to the soup.
- This creamy soup is delicious served either hot or at room temperature.
- Can also be served chilled.
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