Pumpkin Potato Soup Food

PUMPKIN POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat 4 tablespoons butter over medium-low heat in a pot and cook onion until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add pumpkin and potatoes and stir to coat with butter. Add broth and milk. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, until potatoes soften, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Strain soup through a fine-mesh sieve. Season with salt, nutmeg, and sugar. Stir in lemon juice. Return to the pot and bring to a boil. Add cream and heat through but do not boil.
• Meanwhile, heat remaining butter in a skillet and toast bread cubes in the hot butter until browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Serve croutons with the soup.

PUMPKIN & SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the sweet potatoes and pumpkin and cut into cubes of roughly the same size.
• In a large saucepan, melt the butter using a medium heat.
• Leaving the heat setting the same, add the onions and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add the pumplin, sweet potatoes, ginger, caraway seeds and stock.
• Season to taste, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes until sweet potatoes and pumpkin is tender.
• Remove from heat and puree in batches in a food processor.
• Place in a clean suacepan, add honey and cinnamon.
• Bring to the boil then remove from heat.
• Add more seasoning if necessary.
• Top with cheese then serve.
• For a heartier meal cook you favourite pasta shapes for 5 minutes (so still firm), drain then add to the pureed soup.
• Simmer for 5 minutes and then serve.

CREAMED POTATO AND PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan and sauté onions and garlic very gently until soft but not browned.
• Add pumpkin and potatoes and cook for a few minutes, then add tomato paste, stock, seasonings, lemon juice and allspice and bring to boil.
• Cover pan and simmer gently for about 40 minutes or until very tender.
• Puree in a blender or food processor and return to a clean pan.
• Add milk and bring back to boil, whisking continuously. Simmer for 2-3 minutes. Adjust seasonings and stir in sour cream.
• Reheat and serve sprinkled generously with coriander or parsley.
• Without the addition of cream this soup may be frozen for up to 3 months.

CURRIED PUMPKIN AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In saucepan, heat oil; saute garlic and onion until softened, approximately 5 minutes.
• add stock, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, curry powder, coriander, honey and ginger.
• reduce heat, cover and simmer until potatoes are tender, approximately 20-30 min (depends are how small you cut your pototoes.
• Puree in food processor or with immersion blender until smooth.
• return to saucepan, if using food processor; stir in milk until blended.

ROASTED PUMPKIN AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Slice pumpkin in half and remove seeds. Stab fork into each side of the pumpkin's skin 3-4 times. These holes allow steam to escape when roasting in the oven.
• Slather sweet potatoes and pumpkin halves in vegetable oil. Place pumpkin flesh sided own on the parchment paper.
• Roast pumpkin and sweet potato for 45-50 minutes. You'll known when they are finished baking when you insert a pairing knife into the vegetable flesh and it easily slides in and out.
• Let roast pumpkin and sweet potatoes cool. Once at room temperature scoop the pumpkin away from the skin into a measuring cup. Slice roasted sweet potatoes in half and similarly scoop out the flesh to be measured.
• Melt butter over medium heat in a large dutch oven. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, approximately 5 minutes.
• Add roasted sweet potato and pumpkin to the onions and stir in chicken broth, salt and pepper. Simmer for 3-5 minutes while stirring.
• Add sliced apple, honey, ginger, maple syrup and spices.
• Using an immersion blender, puree the soup until thick and creamy.
• Slowly stir in room temperature milk then simmer while stirring for 2-3 minutes until desired consistency is reached.
• Use a ladle to pour Roasted Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup into bowls. Top with a dollop of sour cream and chopped parsley.

SPICY PUMPKIN AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• In a mortar or spice grinder, grind coriander, cumin, oregano, fennel, red pepper, salt and peppercorns into a coarse powder. Blend in garlic and 1 tablespoon olive oil to form a paste.
• Wash pumpkin, and cut into 2-inch wide wedges, scraping away seeds. Peel potatoes and cut each potato lengthwise into 6 wedges. Smear the pumpkin and the potatoes with the spice paste and place in a baking dish.
• Roast in preheated oven 30 to 40 minutes, until tender and just beginning to blacken at the thinnest points.
• Meanwhile, in a large pot over medium heat, cook the onion in the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil until translucent.
• Chop pumpkin and potatoes into smaller chunks and puree in a blender or food processor with some of the chicken broth until smooth. Be sure to scrape the roasted spice paste off the baking dish and include it in the puree. It may be necessary to deglaze the dish with a little chicken broth.
• Pour the pureed vegetables into the pot with the onions, and stir in as much additional chicken stock as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Heat through.

PUMPKIN, POTATO, AND LEEK SOUP

Steps:

• Cut an 8-inch square of cheesecloth, and place the cloves, peppercors, bay leaf, and parsley in the center; bring up the ends to form a sack and tie securely with kitchen twine; set aside.
• In a large saucepan, saute garlic and leeks in olive oil over medium heat until tender but not brown, about 3-5 minutes.
• Add the cinnamon and thyme and cook 1 minute longer.
• Add the chunks of potato, pumpkin, the stock, and the spice bag; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes, or until potatoes and pumpin are fork-tender; discard spice bag.
• Cool soup 5-7 minutes; then puree in batches in a blender or food processor.
• Return pureed soup to pan and add half and half, salt, sugar, cayenne, and ground pepper (to taste).
• Cook over low heat until heated through, but do not boil.
• Adjust seasonings and serve garnished with fresh parsley.

ROASTED PUMPKIN AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Slice pumpkin in half and remove the seeds and strings.
• Season with salt and freshly ground pepper to taste, and wrap in aluminum foil.
• Use a fork to create vent holes all around the sweet potato.
• Wrap the sweet potato in foil and place with the pumpkin on a foil-lined baking sheet.
• Roast for one hour and ten minutes, or until both the pumpkin and the sweet potato are tender enough to pierce easily with a fork.
• Remove the pumpkin and sweet potato from the oven and allow to cool.
• Remove the skin from the shallots and dice them finely.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a sautª pan over a medium flame.
• "Sweat"the shallots by covering with foil and then topping the pan with a close-fitting lid.
• After 1-2 minutes, remove the cover and foil, and add the curry powder.
• Saute for an additional minute, then remove from heat.
• Scoop the flesh from both the pumpkin and the sweet potato and place in a food processor.
• Add the curried shallots, the remaining spices, and one cup of the chicken stock.
• Puree until smooth.
• Thin with the remaining chicken stock until the desired consistency is reached.
• Serve hot, garnished with chervil, if desired.

PUMPKIN SWEET POTATO SOUP (GF, DF, PALEO, WHOLE30)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 F. Use a sharp knife and cutting board to cut a sweet potato in half lengthwise. Set on a baking sheet with parchment paper and cook for 30-40 mins, until soft all the way through in both halves. Let cool for 10-15 minutes, then peel the skin away and cut the potato into chunks. Set aside.
• Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add in diced onion and 1/8 tsp kosher salt and stir with a wooden spoon, cooking for 3-4 minutes until onion is cooked through and translucent.
• While onion is cooking, measure out the ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves into a small bowl and stir to combine. Once onion is cooked through, add the spices to the pot. Add in the cut sweet potato and stir together for a minute or two.
• Pour in the canned pumpkin and broth, stirring to combine. Add in the bay leaf then increase to high heat to bring the pot to a boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 15 minutes.
• When the 15 minutes are done, remove the pot from the heat and let cool for 5-10 minutes. Remove the bay leaf then use an immersion blender to combine everything together.
• Add in the full fat coconut milk and continue using the immersion blender until the soup reaches a smooth consistency. Add ground black pepper and more kosher salt until the soup tastes as you like it, starting in 1/2 tsp increments for the salt. Serve with a swirl of additional full fat coconut milk, some freshly cracked pepper, and a sprinkle of pepitas or pecans!