What is your Pumpkin soup recipe?

Question

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Answer 1

This one is great, my friends keep asking for it!

Simple Pumpkin Soup
1/2 cup onion
3 tbsp. butter
2 cups mashed cooked pumpkin
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground pepper
3 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup half and half or fat free half and half.
Chop the onions and gently brown in the butter in a pan. Put mashed pumpkin into onions in pan with the salt, sugar, nutmeg and pepper. Slowly add chicken broth and heat thoroughly, but do not boil. To serve, pour into a tureen and add the cream. Makes 4 to 6 small servings.

Answer 2

i make it this way!
Ingredients
500 grams (1 lb) pumpkin (diced)
500 grams (1 lb) potato (diced)
1 large onion (sliced)
2 cloves garlic (chopped)
2 litres (4 pints) broth
thyme
salt & pepper
1 cup milk or cream

Saute onion and garlic. When soft, add the pumpkin and potato cubes and mix well. After 5 minutes, transfer all to a terracotta pot (optional but these pots are good for soups), add the hot broth, thyme, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for about 30 minutes. Cool a little and then puree in food processor. Transfer back to the pot, add the cream or milk and simmer another 10 minutes or more.

It's a good hearty soup and freezes well too.

Answer 3

Non-Dairy Pumpkin soup, with a twist
4 carrots
1-2 large sweet potatoes
1 large piece of pumpkin (or butternut squash)
2 potatoes
1 large onion
1/2-1 teaspoon (to taste) cumin
1/4-1/2 teaspoon (to taste) turmeric
Salt and pepper

Wash and peel vegetables. Cut into large pieces and put into pot and cover with water. Cook on a high flame until water is boiling, then lower and simmer for a half hour or until vegetables have softened.
Blend in batches and return to pot. Add cumin, turmeric and salt and pepper. Stir and simmer for an additional 10 minutes.
Serve garnished with croutons or pine nuts.