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.<\/p>\n
Total preparation time :30 min.<\/span><\/p>\n 3-4 servings<\/span><\/p>\n Ingredients<\/b><\/p>\n 200 gm pumpkin (Peeled and diced)<\/span> For Garnishing:<\/span> 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 saut\u00e9 well.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n In a mixing jar, take the saut\u00e9ed 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Strain this mixture and heat it in a pan, add sugar, vinegar and black pepper powder, salt as per taste.<\/span><\/p>\n Garnish with saut\u00e9ed pears (small cubes ) in butter, half\u00a0 crushed roasted peanuts and hot chili sauce. Serve with toast, bread or nachos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chhaya-recipes","category-food","category-recipes"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2 pears (Peeled and sliced)<\/span>
\n1 onion (peeled and sliced)<\/span>
\n1, 1\/2 tsp butter<\/span>
\nSalt to taste<\/span>
\n2-3 leaves mint<\/span>
\n2 tsp fresh cream<\/span>
\n1 tsp sugar<\/span>
\n1 tsp vinegar<\/span>
\n1\/2 tsp black pepper powder<\/span>
\n1\/2 tsp nutmeg powder<\/span><\/p>\n
\n1 tbsp. hot chili sauce<\/span>
\n1 tbsp roasted Peanuts (roughly crushed)<\/span>
\n1\/2 pear (Finely Chopped) Saut\u00e9ed<\/span>
\nDirections\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n