Welcoming Fall with everything orange!! Orange leaves in the backyard, orange pumpkins lined up in the front for halloween and orange colored soup in the dinner menu!! Fall with its chilly climate is perfect to sip a warm colorful soup in the evening along with some fresh baked bread and home made pesto sauce.
Making a pumpkin soup was like bringing the nature indoors for me, as we have had a few fall trips this year, and I was just amazed to see pumpkin patch or pumpkin farms, dotting in orange over a brown background of soil. This was one of the first exposure of mine to pumpkin farming.
This pumpkin soup recipe is extremely quick and convenient as it uses all ready to go material and gives a gourmet feel at home. A bisque like soup with ginger, green onions, red chilli flakes, peanut butter (yum!) and sea salt,.. The ingredients list is so tempting and while the soup was simmering, I actually could smell the peanut fragrance in the soup!!
I am of the belief that nature takes care of us and provides us with nutrients as needed. So if we can incorporate them in our regular diet. we are well covered with our needs. All things orange, carrots, pumpkin are loaded with beta carotene, a much needed ingredient for sharp eyes and your DNA. As a Jain follower would often look for substitutes for carrots, pumpkin is an ideal alternative to carrots. 1/2 can of 16 oz pumpkin puree serves 763% of your daily Vitamin A needs. So making this a part of your weekly diet even once, will fulfill the needs of Vitamin A, without having to resort to carrots. And that is very cool finding I made, thanks to the frequent posting to this blog!
I would like to recognize a very special friend at whose house I first tasted this pumpkin soup! Thats what friends are for as Dionne Warwick song goes..so hope you enjoy this colorful season of Fall, with this colorful pumpkin soup.
Recipe makes servings for 3 people
Time: 15 min
Prep time 5 min
Ingredients
- 1 15oz can of pumpkin puree
- 2 cups vegetable broth or water
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- salt to taste, preferably sea salt
- 2 tbsp green onions chopped (optional)
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1/2 tsp grated orange rind
- 1 stalk of lemongrass
- Fresh Cilantro/coriander leaves for garnish
Method
- Mix pumpkin puree, vegetable broth/water and orange juice and put it to boil.
- Ater 3-4 min , add peanut butter, salt and the rest of ingredients.
- Simmer for 12 min on medium flame.
- Remove the lemongrass stalk, before serving.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro leaves
- Enjoy this with a slice of olive or tuscan bread or fresh baked baguette slice!
TIps
Freshly squeezed orange juice tastes better than the packaged juice, as there is a slight after bitter taste in a pre packed juice.
If you have peanut allergy, you can thicken the soup with cornstarch or potato starch. Mixt 2 tbsp of starch in a tbsp water and add to the sou
Instinct Factor
Just enjoy the fragrance and trust your friends choice in food!
Feel Factor
A warm colorful soup for the cold evening, with an unusual but delicious flavor of peanut butter, orange juice , lemon grass and ginger. This will definitely, spice up the chilly dark fall nite!
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