Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of beauty?Are you a fan of a healthy lifestyle? Or just a lover of tasty food, but without harming your figure? Then you will be able to appreciate pumpkin soup. Because pumpkin puree soup is bright, it is tasty, it is beautiful, it is healthy! Isn't it too much for one dish? No, it is just right. This soup will be bright, which means it will lift your spirits. It will be satisfying and at the same time quite dietary. It can be made sweet or salty, cooked with vegetables, meat, fish, milk or cream. The recipe for any pumpkin soup cannot be called complicated. And you can cook it for a children's menu, and for a family dinner, and for yourself (a sufferer, "sitting" on a diet). Try to cook, for example, pumpkin puree soup with cream, or rather, its dietary version.
Dietary pumpkin soup
The soup turns out quite filling, butlow-calorie and perfect for dietary nutrition. If desired, you can vary the seasonings to your taste. And if you serve it with cream, you will get a real (though not dietary) pumpkin puree soup with cream. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (small or half large)
- Onion (2 heads)
- Garlic (head)
- Ginger in powder (a quarter teaspoon)
- Kukurma (tablespoon)
- Pepper and salt
- Water
Preparation:Peel the pumpkin, cut into pieces and put in a saucepan. Add water (two glasses) and simmer over low heat for about twenty minutes. While the pumpkin is cooking, peel and chop the garlic and onion and lightly fry them in vegetable oil (about three minutes). Add salt and pepper, turmeric and ginger to taste to the finished pumpkin, stir, drain the water (into a separate saucepan). Grind the seasoned pumpkin into a puree (you can use a blender, or just a fork in a saucepan), put the onion and garlic into the puree, add the required amount of previously drained water - we get soup. Note: Advice for those who are watching a slim figure and a strict diet: the onion and garlic can be stewed together with the pumpkin instead of fried.
Pumpkin soup with bacon
This recipe, of course, can no longer be calleddietary. However, pumpkin is the basis of the soup, and therefore it successfully “neutralizes” even such a “harmful” product as bacon. Well, and what does pumpkin puree soup with bacon taste like, judge for yourself. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- An onion head
- Bacon (200-300 g)
- Vegetable oil (tablespoon)
- Carrots (2 pieces)
- Salt and pepper
- Sour cream
- Parsley
Preparation:Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Wash and peel the carrots. Cut the pumpkin and carrots into cubes, put them in a pot with water and cook for about twenty minutes. Cut the bacon and onion into strips and fry in vegetable oil (until the onion is golden brown). Remove the pumpkin and carrots from the pot with a slotted spoon and mash them. Put the resulting puree back into the pot and add the fried onion and bacon, pepper and salt. Bring the soup to a boil. Serve with sour cream and herbs. Note: You can use chicken or vegetable broth instead of water.
Pumpkin soup with croutons
Recipe for milk soup with pumpkin and crispy croutons of wheat bread or loaf. A very tasty dish. The soup has a delicate color and a delicate creamy consistency. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- Milk (slightly less than a liter)
- Fat cream (half a glass)
- Butter (tablespoon)
- White bread (quarter of saika)
- Salt
Preparation:Cut the peeled pumpkin into slices and place in a saucepan or roasting pan. Boil half the milk and pour it over the pumpkin. Add salt and simmer until done under a closed lid. Pass the pumpkin stewed in milk through a sieve (along with the "broth") and dilute with the remaining milk. Put the soup back on the fire and bring to a boil. Season the finished cream soup with cream and butter. Cut the bread into small cubes and dry slightly in the oven (microwave). When serving the soup, put croutons in the plate.
Pumpkin soup with shrimps
Now we've got to the seafood.Why not diversify pumpkin soup, for example, with everyone's favorite and so affordable shrimp and as a result get a very interesting recipe for making pumpkin soup-puree? Let's try it? Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- An onion head
- Shrimp (150 g)
- Broth (about a liter)
- Cream (half a glass)
- Hot pepper (1 pc.)
- Sugar (teaspoonful)
- Vegetable oil for roasting
- Green onions
- Salt and black pepper
Preparation:Peel and fry raw shrimp in vegetable oil. Finely chop hot pepper. Chop green onion. Cut pumpkin (peeled and washed) into large cubes, onion into small cubes. Fry pumpkin and onion in vegetable oil (tablespoon), put in a saucepan and pour chicken broth. Simmer for about twenty minutes. When ready, soft pumpkin is mashed into puree (without removing from the saucepan), add cream, salt, sugar and black pepper. Boil. Put shrimp and hot pepper in soup, serve with green onions.
Sweet pumpkin soup
Sweet pumpkin soup will fit perfectly into a children's menu and is suitable as a dessert for a diet table. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (half a kilo)
- Glass of water
- Milk (2 cups)
- Flour (2 tbsp.)
- Sugar (3 tbsp.)
- Lemon Zest
- Butter (2 tbsp.)
- Cinnamon (tea spoon)
- Salt
Preparation:Finely chop the peeled and washed pumpkin and simmer in salted water until soft. Lightly fry the flour in a dry frying pan. Rub the finished pumpkin through a sieve. Pour in milk. Add flour, lemon zest and sugar. When serving, season the cream soup with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon. Note: The recipe allows you to use semolina instead of flour. For a dietary version of the soup, you can completely abandon the flour and butter. The soup will be no less delicious.
French pumpkin soup
It turns out that the French cuisine menu also includes a recipe for pumpkin soup. Let's trust the taste of recognized gourmets? Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (slightly less than a kilogram)
- Stalk of leek
- Potatoes (2-3 pieces).
- Olive oil (2 tbsp.)
- Vegetable broth (liter)
- Lemon juice (tablespoon)
- Sour cream (half a glass)
Preparation:Wash, peel and dice the pumpkin and potatoes. Cut the onion into rings. Fry all the vegetables in olive oil until the onion is translucent. Add the broth to the vegetables and cook the soup for about fifteen minutes. At the end of cooking, pour in the lemon juice, salt and pepper. Beat with a mixer. Serve with sour cream and croutons (optional).
Pumpkin soup with cream
The combination of pumpkin and cream can be calledclassic. Cream is added to pumpkin soup at the cooking stage or ready soups are seasoned with it. We offer you a recipe (one of many) for a light vegetable soup with cream. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (200 g)
- Sunflower oil
- Potatoes (1 pc.)
- Water (incomplete glass)
- Cream (half a glass)
- Salt
- White bread
Preparation:Peel and wash the pumpkin and potatoes, cut them into medium cubes and simmer in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Add water and simmer under a closed lid for about fifteen minutes. Grind the finished vegetables in a blender or using a mixer. Transfer to a saucepan and add warmed cream. Put the saucepan on the fire, let the cream soup boil and simmer over low heat for about five minutes. Salt. Serve with croutons.
Pumpkin soup with meatballs
Although men are not fans of pumpkin dishes, and especially of cream soups, this pumpkin soup recipe will certainly find fans among them. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (about a kilogram)
- Fat cream (glass)
- Chicken minced meat (pound)
- Egg (1 pc.)
- Basil (2 branches)
- Dill (bunch)
- Salt
- Cheese
Preparation:Peel the pumpkin, cut it and heat it in the microwave for five to six minutes. Make pumpkin puree using a mixer or blender. Put a pot of water on the stove and wait for it to boil. While the water is boiling, salt and pepper the minced meat, add the egg and form small meatballs. Put the meatballs in boiling water, let them boil for about four minutes and add the pumpkin puree. Then pour in the cream, bring the soup to a boil, but do not boil it. Remove from the stove. Serve the cream soup with herbs and grated cheese.
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