Delicious pumpkin soup with cream

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

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Ingredients

• pumpkin
• onion
• garlic
• cream
• salt
• water

Pumpkin cream soup with cream is an easy and healthy dish for the whole family. There are a lot of recipes for making pumpkin soup, because you can add different spices, meat, cheese, other vegetables or seafood to it. Therefore, such a bright dish is suitable for children's, everyday and festive menus.

Pumpkin puree soup - a classic recipe with cream

The classic step-by-step recipe for pumpkin puree soup involves using the vegetable itself and cream. Only onions and garlic can be added from vegetables. The soup can be boiled in water or broth. And it is on ordinary water that the dish turns out to be more fragrant, rich and bright, as in the photo.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 1 onion;
• 6 cloves of garlic;
• 5 tsp vegetable oil;
• 600 ml of water;
• 180 ml cream (10%);
• 1 tsp salt.

Preparation:

• We peel the pumpkin from the peel and seeds, which we do not throw away, but dry, since they are also very useful, like the vegetable itself. Then cut the pulp into small cubes.
• Chop the onion into cubes, finely chop the cloves of the spicy vegetable.

• In a saucepan with a thick bottom and with already heated oil, pass the onion until transparent, then add garlic to the onion vegetable and add the pumpkin in a minute, fry the vegetables for 6-7 minutes.
• Then pour in the water so that the liquid completely covers all the pumpkin pieces. Add salt and pepper. If desired, you can use other spices, such as dried basil, nutmeg, dill, coriander.

Cook the pumpkin for 15-20 minutes; it should become soft and pierce easily. After that, punch the contents of the pan with an immersion blender

Now add the cream, stir, and the puree soup is ready, you can serve it to the table

Ready pumpkin soup tastes better when served with croutons, which can be bought ready-made. And it is better to take and cut the bread into cubes, put it in a mixture of butter, garlic and salt, and then send it to dry in the oven for 20-30 minutes, temperature 180 ° C.

Pumpkin and potato cream soup

Today, in addition to the classic pumpkin soup recipe, there are other options for its preparation. For example, a step-by-step recipe with a photo of pumpkin puree soup with cream and potatoes. The dish turns out to be just as tasty, but more satisfying.

Ingredients:

• 500 g pumpkin;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 200 ml cream (10%);
• salt, pepper to taste;
• ginger, nutmeg to taste.

Preparation:

Cut the peeled pumpkin, as well as potato tubers and carrots into cubes of equal size

• Chop the onion and garlic and pour into a saucepan with heated oil, fry until golden.
• Sprinkle pepper with ginger and nutmeg, warm it up a little so that the spices reveal their aroma, and pour the pumpkin along with carrots and potatoes.

• Pour in water, cover with a lid and cook until vegetables are ready.
• Then puree the vegetables with a hand blender. If there is too much broth, then it is better to drain it, and then add it if necessary.

• Now pour in the cream, stir until smooth and serve the soup to the table, adding croutons and pumpkin seeds if desired.
• For the dish, you should choose ripe pumpkin fruits, then the soup will turn out to be especially bright, but the nutmeg varieties of vegetables will make the dish more delicious.

With Chiken

Pumpkin soup recipes are especially suitable for those who don't like pumpkin and carrot chunks floating in the soup. In this dish, everything will be even, beautiful and very appetizing.

Pumpkin cream soup with cream turns out to be very light and to make it more satisfying, you can add chicken meat, as in the suggested step-by-step recipe with the photo.

Ingredients:

• 1, 2 kg pumpkin;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 750 ml chicken broth;
• 250 ml of water;
• 150 ml cream (10%);
• salt and pepper to taste.
• For chicken broth:
• 500 g of chicken;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion.

Preparation:

First, we boil the chicken broth and for this we wash the poultry meat well, cut it into pieces, if you wish, you can remove the skin, then the broth will not be so greasy. So, put all the meat pieces in a saucepan, fill it with water, put on fire and bring to a boil

• To make the broth transparent, after the first boil we take out the meat and pour out the broth. Pour the meat with clean boiled water and cook for 20-25 minutes with the addition of onions and carrots.
• Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes and, together with the garlic and chopped onion slices, send it to the pan, fill the vegetables with a glass of water and 3 glasses of chicken broth. We put on fire and cook until the pumpkin becomes soft.

• Then grind the contents of the pan with a blender until smooth.
• Pour in the cream, add salt and pepper, mix. We put pieces of chicken meat in the ready-made puree soup - and you can serve the dish to the table along with herbs and crackers.

Pumpkin soup can be tasted more tender and richer by replacing half of the cream with milk. Also, such a soup can be given to children from 1 year old, it is easily digested and is equally useful for the stomach and intestines

With shrimps

Pumpkin puree soup with cream and shrimps is a recipe for an unusual dish that can even be served on a festive table. An unusual combination of seafood and vegetables gives an amazing taste, which the hostess herself and her guests will surely appreciate.

At the same time, the recipe itself is very simple, the main thing is to follow the step-by-step instructions with the photo.

Ingredients:

• 700 g pumpkin;
• 500 g shrimp;
• 300 ml cream;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 50 g pumpkin seeds (dried);
• salt, pepper, curry to taste;
• parsley or cilantro to taste.

Preparation:

Cut the previously prepared pumpkin pulp into pieces, season the vegetable with spices, sprinkle with oil and send it to the oven for 25 minutes, temperature 200 ° C

Chop the garlic cloves and lightly fry in a pan, then put the shrimps on the spicy vegetable and fry for 2-3 minutes, they should lose their transparency, become ruddy and reddish

• Put the baked pumpkin with shrimps in a saucepan, add salt, pepper, curry, some of the pumpkin seeds and finely chopped greens. We interrupt all the ingredients with a blender.
• Now pour in the cream, put on the fire and heat for 5-7 minutes, do not bring it to a boil.
• Pour the ready-made puree soup into plates, decorate with pumpkin seeds and crackers.

If the pumpkin variety turned out to be faded and very light in color, then you can add some carrots to the soup. Such a vegetable will give a bright shade and diversify the taste of the finished dish

Interesting! Sweet pumpkin desserts

With ginger

Another recipe for making pumpkin soup involves the addition of ginger, the spicy pungency of which is perfectly combined with the sweetish taste of pumpkin. The proposed step-by-step recipe with a photo will allow you to prepare a delicious and incredibly healthy pumpkin soup with cream.

Ingredients:

• 400 g pumpkin;
• celery root;
• 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 30 g of ginger root;
• 2 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 200 m cream;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. Peel and chop the celery and ginger roots, as well as the garlic cloves. Cut the carrots in semicircles and chop the onion into quarters.
2. Put the onion together with ginger, garlic and celery into a saucepan with heated olive oil, sauté until soft.
3. Next, lay in the pumpkin and carrots chopped into cubes, fill the entire contents of the pan with water and cook for 20 minutes.
4. Then we drain the broth, salt the vegetables and punch with a blender until smooth.
5. Now pour the cream and broth into the vegetable puree, bring the soup to the desired consistency and serve.

Pumpkin puree soup can be cooked without adding cream, such a product can be replaced with ordinary processed cheese. The dish turns out to be just as tasty and rich. And do not think that the consistency of the finished dish directly depends on the cream, it turns out thick thanks to the pumpkin.

Pumpkin soup with chanterelles

Pumpkin soup with chanterelles is an incredibly tasty, aromatic and bright dish. For the recipe, you can use any mushrooms, but if possible, it is better to cook pumpkin soup with chanterelles.

Ingredients:

• 200 g pumpkin;
• 500 g of chanterelles;
• 100 ml of water;
• 150 ml cream;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. butter;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• pepper and salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. We wash the chanterelles, dry them, put a few mushrooms aside, chop the rest.
2. We also clean the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces. Finely chop the garlic and chop the onion.
3. In a saucepan, heat the vegetable oil along with butter, add the onion and garlic, saute until the onion vegetable is transparent. After pouring pumpkin with mushrooms, fry with constant stirring for 5-7 minutes.
4. Now pour in water and cook until the pumpkin is cooked, 15-20 minutes.
5. Then, using an immersion blender, grind the contents of the pan to a puree consistency.
6. Pour in the cream, stir, salt and pepper the soup.
7. Pour the finished dish into plates, decorate with herbs and the remaining chanterelles, which we fry in a pan until cooked.
8. If pumpkin soup is prepared without adding cream, then you can grate a little hard cheese or put cubes of feta cheese into the finished dish.

Pumpkin cream soup with cream is easily absorbed even by a child's body, so every housewife should know the recipes for such a dish. At the same time, pumpkin soup turns out to be not only healthy, but also looks festive and expensive, which means that it is ideal for a festive menu as well.