Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of beauty? A fan of a healthy lifestyle? And just a lover to eat delicious, but without harm to the figure? Then you can appreciate the pumpkin soup. Because pumpkin soup - it's bright, it's delicious, it's beautiful, it's useful! Is not it a lot for one dish? Yes, no, just right. Such a soup will turn out bright, which means it will cheer up. It will be full and at the same time quite dietary. It can be made sweet or salty, cooked with vegetables, with meat, with fish, with milk or with cream. The recipe for cooking any pumpkin soup is not complex. And you can prepare it for the children's menu, for family dinner, and for yourself (the sufferer who "sits" on a diet). Try to start to prepare, for example, pumpkin cream soup with cream, or rather, its dietary option.
Dietary pumpkin soup
The soup turns out to be quite satisfying, butlow-calorie and perfectly suited for dietary nutrition. If desired, you can vary the seasonings to your liking. And if you serve with cream, then you will get a real (though not a dietary) pumpkin soup puree 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: Pumpkin is peeled, cut into pieces and put into a saucepan. Add water (two glasses) and simmer on low heat for about twenty minutes. While the pumpkin is prepared, clean and cut garlic and onions and lightly fry them in vegetable oil (three minutes). In the finished pumpkin add salt and pepper to taste, kukurma and ginger, mix, merge water (into a separate saucepan). The seasoned pumpkin is triturated in mashed potatoes (you can in a blender, you can just fork with it in a saucepan), we put onions and garlic in puree, we add the right amount of previously drained water - we get soup. Note: Advice for the guardians of a slender figure and a strict diet: you can not fry onion and garlic, but with stew and pumpkin.
Pumpkin soup with bacon
Of course, this recipe can not be called dietary. However, the pumpkin - the basis of soup, and therefore even such a "harmful" product as bacon, it successfully "neutralizes". Well, what about the taste of pumpkin soup puree with bacon, 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: Pumpkin is peeled, take out the seeds. Carrots mine and clean. We cut the pumpkin and carrots into cubes, put them in a pot of water and cook for about twenty minutes. Bacon and onions cut into strips and fry in vegetable oil (until the golden color of onions). Pumpkin and carrots with a noisy take out of the pan and crush it in puree. The resulting mashed potatoes are put back into the pan and add to it fried onions with bacon, pepper and salt. Bring the soup to a boil. Serve with sour cream and herbs. Note: Instead of water, you can use chicken or vegetable broth. 
Pumpkin soup with croutons
Recipe for a milk soup with pumpkin and crispy toast from wheat bread or a loaf. Very tasty dish. The soup has a delicate color and a gentle creamy consistency. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- Milk (slightly less than a liter)
- Fat cream (half a glass)
- Butter (tablespoon)
- White bread (quarter of saika)
- Salt
Preparation: We cut the cleaned pumpkin into slices, put it in a saucepan or in a brazier. Half of the milk is boiled and poured a pumpkin. Add salt, stew until cooked under the closed lid. Milk lettuce gourd through a sieve (along with the "broth") and diluted with the remaining milk. Again, put the soup on the fire and bring to a boil. We finish the cream soup with cream and butter. Bread cut into small cubes and slightly dried in the oven (microwave oven). Serving soup, we put croutons in a bowl.
Pumpkin soup with shrimps
So we got to the seafood. And why not to diversify the pumpkin soup, for example, by all the loved ones and such available shrimps and, as a result, get a very interesting recipe for cooking pumpkin soup-puree? Shall we try? 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: Raw shrimp are cleaned and fried in vegetable oil. Sharp pepper finely chopped. Green onions shred. Pumpkin (peeled and washed) cut into large cubes, onions - shallow. Pumpkin along with the onions are allowed in vegetable oil (a tablespoon), put into a pan and pour chicken broth. We extinguish about twenty minutes. Ready, turned soft pumpkin crush in mashed potatoes (without removing from the pan), add cream, salt, sugar and black pepper. We boil it. We put the shrimp soup and hot pepper, served with green onions.
Sweet pumpkin soup
Sweet pumpkin soup perfectly fits in the children's menu and will suit as a dessert for a dietary 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: Cleaned and washed pumpkin finely cut and stewed in salted water until soft. A little frying in a dry frying pan. Wipe the pumpkin through a sieve. Fill with milk. Add flour, lemon zest and sugar. Serving on the table, seasoning cream soup and sprinkle with cinnamon. Note: The recipe allows you to use a manga instead of flour. For the dietary version of the soup from flour and oil can be discarded altogether. The soup will turn out not less tasty. 
French pumpkin soup
It turns out that the menu of French cuisine also has a recipe for pumpkin soup. Will we 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: Pumpkin and potatoes are mine, cleaned and cut into cubes. Onions cut into rings. All the vegetables are fried in olive oil until the onion is transparent. Add the broth to the vegetables and cook soup for fifteen minutes. At the end of the preparation, pour lemon juice, salt and pepper. Beat with a mixer. We serve with sour cream and croutons (if desired).
Pumpkin soup with cream
The combination of pumpkin and cream can be calledclassical. Cream is added to pumpkin soup at the cooking stage or they are filled with ready-made soups. We offer you a recipe (one of many) of 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: Peeled and washed pumpkin and potatoes cut into medium cubes and allowances in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Add water and stew under a closed lid for about fifteen minutes. Finished vegetables are ground in a blender or using a mixer. Put it in a saucepan and add warmed cream. We put the saucepan on the fire, let the soup-mash boil and simmer on a slow fire for five minutes. Solim. Serve with croutons. 
Pumpkin soup with meatballs
Although men and can not be attributed to fans of pumpkin dishes, and especially soups, mashed potatoes, such a recipe for a pumpkin soup will certainly find admirers 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: Pumpkin is cleaned, cut and heated in a microwave for five to six minutes. Use a mixer or a blender to make pumpkin puree. We put a pot of water on the fire and wait for it to boil. While the water boils, mince salt, pepper, add an egg to it and form small meatballs. We lower into the boiling water meatballs, 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. We remove from the plate. We serve soup-puree with herbs and grated cheese.
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