This Pumpkin-Pear Soup recipe is made with a secret ingredient and is perfect to start out a cozy dinner. The flavorsome and comforting soup is especially ideal for those chilly fall evenings when you want something simple, warm and healthy. Even without added cream, it has a creamy, velvety texture and the right balance of savory, sweet, and spicy.
Total preparation time :30 min.
3-4 servings
Ingredients
200 gm pumpkin (Peeled and diced)
2 pears (Peeled and sliced)
1 onion (peeled and sliced)
1, 1/2 tsp butter
Salt to taste
2-3 leaves mint
2 tsp fresh cream
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp black pepper powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
For Garnishing:
1 tbsp. hot chili sauce
1 tbsp roasted Peanuts (roughly crushed)
1/2 pear (Finely Chopped) Sautéed
Directions
In a hot pan, add 1 tsp butter, pumpkin slices, 1,1/2 pear slices, onion slices and mint leaves, season with salt and pepper and sauté well.
In another saucepan, take pumpkin, onion, pears peel (washed), add 1 glass of water to make a vegetable stock. Let it boil for 5 minutes, and turn off the flame. Strain this water to use in soup as stock.
In a mixing jar, take the sautéed pumpkin-pear mixture and add 1/2 tsp. of nutmeg powder, 1 tsp fresh cream and make a smooth paste and then add the prepared stock.
Strain this mixture and heat it in a pan, add sugar, vinegar and black pepper powder, salt as per taste.
Garnish with sautéed pears (small cubes ) in butter, half crushed roasted peanuts and hot chili sauce. Serve with toast, bread or nachos.
