Dads Pumpkin Apple Soup With Ham Food

PUMPKIN SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Heat oil and butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, apples, and thyme and saute until onion is golden and apples are soft. Add pumpkin or squash and stir until smooth. Stir in broth and ham and heat gently (do not boil). Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve warm, garnished with sour cream and parsley.

SAVORY PUMPKIN SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Add pumpkin, chicken broth, water, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; add milk and yogurt. Puree using an immersion blender until smooth. Add ham and let stand until heated through.

PUMPKIN APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot cook the bacon until crisp. Add butter, apples, carrots, celery, onion and garlic cook until soft in the bacon grease.
• Add the wine, cider and stock. add pumpkin puree and herbs; simmer for one hour.
• Puree the soup in a blender or use your immersion blender, add cream. Finish with salt and pepper if needed.

PUMPKIN SOUP WITH APPLE - WALNUT TOPPING

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the pumpkin, onion and garlic. Cook until lightly browned, 5-6 minutes. Add the broth, 1 tablespoons maple syrup, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer until the pumpkin is very tender, about 15 minutes.
• TOPPING: Meanwhile to make the topping, in a bowl, combine apple, chives, walnuts, lemon juice and 1 tablespoons maple syrup. Set aside.
• Purée the pumpkin mixture using a blender until smooth. Ladle the soup into 4 bowls, and add topping. Drizzle each bowl with remaining maple syrup before serving.

DAD'S HOMEMADE PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• In soup pot really cook leeks in the butter, even if they brown a little.
• Add white wine to deglaze, let this sit for a while and bring it to the boil. Stir and get drunk on the fumes - generally means the alcohol has been cooked off.
• Add stock and bring to the boil. Add water if there isn't enough liquid.
• Season with pepper to taste.
• Add pumpkin and simmer until pumpkin is soft.
• Lightly purée pumpkin, but keep it chunky.
• Serve hot. Add some cream if you want and more pepper to finish.

APPLE PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan saute apples and onion in butter for 3-5 minutes or until tender. Stir in flour until blended.
• Gradually whisk in broth. Stir in pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 25 minutes. Cool slightly.
• In a blender, cover and process soup in batches until smooth. Pour into a bowl, cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
• Just before serving, transfer soup to a saucepan; cook over medium heat for 5-10 minutes.
• Stir in apple juice, cream, salt and pepper; heat through.

DAD’S PUMPKIN APPLE SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• 1. In a large pot, cook the bacon over moderate heat until almost crisp. Add 2 tablespoons of the butter and let melt. Add the apples, carrot, onion, celery, leek and garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until the vegetables are soft, about 10 minutes. 2. Add 1/4 teaspoon of the cinnamon, the allspice and nutmeg and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the wine, cider and Calvados and cook until almost dry, about 5 minutes. Add the pumpkin puree, stock, ham hock, bouquet garni, cloves and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 1 hour. Add the pepper. Discard the bouquet garni and cloves. 3. Remove the ham hock. When it is cool enough to handle, pull the meat from the bone. Cut the meat into small pieces and reserve. 4. Puree the soup in a food mill or food processor. Add the ham.