Recipes on the Halloween: pumpkin soups

Pumpkin cream soup

To prepare pumpkin cream soup on the Halloween, it will be necessary for you:

• 6 Art. of vegetable broth (~ 1,5 l)
• 1 pumpkin
• 500 g of pulp of pumpkin
• 1 bulbs
• 2 garlic gloves
• 5 kernels of chili pepper
• 1 potato
• 120 ml of fat cream
• 1,5 tsps of salt
• oil for greasing of pumpkin
• the cut greens, grated cheese - to taste

At first prepare "a pot for soup". For this purpose it is necessary to cut pumpkin and to clean from it pulp in the same way, as well as at production of a lamp from pumpkin. Cut off a cover at pumpkin (it will make about one third of height of pumpkin). Get seeds and accurately clean pulp - it will go for preparation of soup. Temporarily set aside your "tureen" aside and start being engaged directly in soup.

Cut pulp of pumpkin in cubes with the party in 1,5-2 cm. If pumpkin which you took for soup, of insufficiently big, and 500 g of pulp is not gathered, can take pulp from other pumpkin. Clear onions and small cut or even rub. Too peel potatoes and cut with small cubes, and pass garlic through a chesnokodavilka.

Put on fire a stewpan with vegetable broth. As soon as broth begins to boil, put in it pulp of pumpkin, potatoes, onions, garlic, chili pepper and salt. Again bring broth to boiling, lower fire and extinguish 40 minutes. It is not necessary to close a stewpan a cover.

While vegetables are stewed, prepare capacity for soup. Oil the peeled pumpkin (for this purpose conveniently to use a culinary brush) and put in the oven warmed to 180 degrees. Pumpkin it is necessary to bake about half an hour. When pumpkin is ready, do not hurry to get it from an oven - it has to remain warm until you do not pour in it soup.

Make mashed potatoes (for this purpose it is possible to use the blender) of stewed pulp of pumpkin in broth, again shift it in a stewpan and extinguish 10 minutes, constantly stirring slowly. Then add previously warmed up cream to mashed potatoes and pour soup in baked pumpkin. It is possible to strew ready cream soup with grated cheese or greens. Serve pumpkin cream soup hot, having covered.

Pumpkin cream soup

One more recipe on the Halloween - pumpkin cream soup. For preparation of this soup take:

• 800 g of pulp of pumpkin
• 700 ml of broth (meat or vegetable)
• 200 ml of cream
• 150 g of ham
• 1 large bulb
• 2 teeth of garlic
• 2 tbsps of vegetable oil
• 40 g of butter
• 1 average potato
• 2 tbsps of pumpkin sunflower seeds (fried)
• 1 tsps of a grated ginger root
• 0,5 tsps of powder of a curry
• ground black pepper, salt, fennel, parsley - to taste

Crush onions and garlic, and cut pulp of pumpkin in small cubes, as well as in the last recipe. Peel potatoes and small cut. Pour out vegetable oil in a pan and kindle in it creamy. Lay out onions, garlic, a curry and ginger in a pan. Pripustite vegetables with seasonings until they become soft. Garlic should not start burning!

Add pumpkin and potatoes to onions and garlic, fill in vegetables with broth. Broth has to cover vegetables. Cook soup on small fire. When pumpkin and potato are soft, merge the most part of liquid. But do not pour out broth absolutely, and simply pour it in separate ware - it can be useful to you. Grind vegetables to a condition of mashed potatoes. Cut ham thin strips and slightly fry. Add a half of the fried ham, cream, salt, pepper and fennel to mashed potatoes.

Move mashed potatoes and again put it on fire. Soup needs to be warmed up, but not to boil at all, differently cream will turn. If soup too dense, part it with broth which you merged. Having poured ready cream soup on portion plates, strew it with the remained ham, parsley and fried pumpkin sunflower seeds.

Of course, the variety of dishes from pumpkin is not limited to these two recipes. For a dessert, for example, it is possible to prepare pumpkin casserole. And surely take care of decoration of dishes to create the unique atmosphere of a holiday - then celebration of the Halloween will take place without a hitch and will be remembered to you for a long time.

Bon appetit!