Marianne's Pumpkin Soup - Aka Kürbissuppe

"With a good cooking pumpkin and some simple additions, this soup is great. If you want it more filling, you might just serve bread on the side, or butter/margarine-fried croutons (or oil-fried) Can also be served as a starter for a larger meal."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 15mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Chop the onion - not too finely.
  • Cube the pumpkin.
  • Cube the potato.
  • Mix up the stock.
  • Grate the carrots and get the cream out of the fridge.
  • Saute the onion in some olive oil or margarine or butter - for a minute or two - add the pumpkin - stir every so often - add the potato and 1/3 of the grated carrots.
  • When things start becoming slightly soft, add the stock.
  • Add salt and pepper. NOTE - I needed a lot of salt for this to become properly tasty, but don't put too much in now. Wait until the soup is almost finished.
  • Let cook for about 30 minutes.
  • Turn off the stove and use a stick mixer to roughly puree the ingredients. Personally, I prefer leaving some nice little chunks in the soup for texture.
  • Add the cream and the remaining 2/3 of the grated carrots and the chives.
  • Stir carefully for a little while until the carrots have become warm, but by far soft. Add salt to taste.
  • Serve with bread or add croutons to the soup.
  • PS - next time I make this, I think I will add 2-3 cloves of garlic and possibly a bit more onion.

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  1. This soup is absolutely wonderful on a cold day. During my time spent in Swizerland, my house mom made this on a regular basis and it quickly became my favourite meal. I'm glad to find this recipe because the version of it I had copied was incomplete. This is perfect and oh so good. I could easily eat this every day of my life!
     
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Have lived in Norway, Canada, Australia, Bahrain and now Switzerland. Hope to stay in Switzerland now. I am a housewife with no kids, a cat and a pottery wheel. I love to watch BBC Food and like the way Jamie Oliver cooks. I'm not much into his recipes yet, though, as I can't eat much chili!
 
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