Recipe: Perfect Pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup. This is a classic, easy pumpkin soup made with fresh pumpkin that is very fast to make. Pumpkin soup is a usually 'bound' (thick) soup made from a purée of pumpkin. It is made by combining the meat of a blended pumpkin with broth or stock.

This creamy (yet cream-less) soup features incredible roasted pumpkin flavor. Pumpkin soup is what we all crave come October, but the idea of starting with an actual pumpkin? The shortcut was obvious — canned pumpkin — but would it taste as good? You can cook Pumpkin soup using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin soup

1. It's 3 lbs of pumpkin.
2. Prepare 3 of large leeks.
3. You need 2 teaspoons of paprika.
4. It's 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
5. Prepare 17 oz of cream.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
7. Prepare to taste of salt.
8. It's to taste of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain.

Learn how to make the easiest and best Creamy Pumpkin Soup. This Pumpkin Soup recipe is quick, cheap and very easy to make. Pumpkin soup is definitively the optimal savory Halloween dish. It is easy to make, full of festive fall flavors and warming before an evening of trick-or-treating.

Pumpkin soup instructions

1. Wash the leeks thoroughly, making a lengthwise cut to separate the layers and remove any dirt with running water..
2. Put 8 generous tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain in a large pan fry the sliced leeks until they start turning golden around the edges, and smell delicious!.
3. Add the pumpkin, cut into cubes, season to taste and cook for 2-3 minutes. The pumpkin is absorbing the flavour of the leeks and the Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain..
4. Add the paprika and cayenne. Stir well so all the flavours mix together..
5. Add the half cup of water. Remember that a pumpkin is 90% water, and it will give off that water while cooking. Put a lid on the pan and simmer for 30 minutes until the pumpkin is tender..
6. After 30 minutes, beat the mixture with a hand-held blender or in a food processor until you have a smooth cream. In the last few seconds of beating, add the single cream..
7. To decorate the soup, put a couple of tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain in a frying pan and flash-fry some little cubes of pumpkin..
8. Serve the soup with the pumpkin ‘croutons’ and a drizzle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain to add its incomparable smoothness and texture..

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