Last Monday, on Halloween, was the first time ever I got to carve a pumpkin.
Halloween is not a big thing in Germany really, and pumpkins for a long time were one of these forgotten vegetables, until a few years ago. Thanks to globalization Halloween is slowly establishing itself more and more as a new kid's event over here, and pumpkin dishes successfully fought their way back into the hearts of German food lovers.
This one here is a very simple and easy to make pumpkin soup that tastes delicious.
You'll need:
500g pumpkin cubes (I use hokkaido pumpkin, cause you can cook it with the skin)
250g carrots roughly, chopped
1 medium-sized onion, roughly chopped
1 Tbsp butter
juice of one orange
100ml heavy cream
1.5 l water
2 tsp vegetable stock
salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg
roasted sunflower seeds, pumpkin oil and cream for garnish
Directions
Melt butter in a large saucepan. Add pumpkin carrots and onion and sauté for a few minutes while stirring. Add the vegetable broth and water and bring to a boil. Have everything boil for about ten minutes, or until the carrots and pumpkin are soft.
With a hand blender mix everything until smooth. Mix in the orange juice (careful, you might not need all the juice) and heavy cream. Season to taste with salt, pepper, a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg.
Sprinkle pumpkinseed oil, a bit of cream and roasted sunflower seeds over it.
Serve!
PS:
I decided to serve the soup with bacon-wrapped cod rolls. Therefore cut the cod into slices and season to taste with pepper and a tiny bit of salt (the bacon is already pretty salty). Place the cod slice on a slice of bacon and roll it all up with the bacon being on the outside. Pin the fish-bacon package with a toothpick so it won't fall apart, when frying. Fry the rolls in a pan from each side on high heat for 2-3 minutes.
Turn the stove down to medium/low heat, cover the pan with a lid and let the rolls cook for another 3-5 minutes to make sure the fish inside is properly cooked.
Serve on top of the pumpkin soup. It's delicious!
PPS:
You can also add a little parsley for garnish. I just didn't have any...
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| This was us with our pumpkin on our tiny spontaneous halloween party |
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| I think I did a pretty good job on my first carved pumpkin ever... |
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| We even captured something weird with my camera. There was nothing there, I swear. But it felt strangely cold right next to me.... |
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