Saturday, January 1, 2011

Hearty pumpkin soup with herbs n garlic bread

Pumpkin is a versatile vegetable- You could do so much with pumpkin- it is used extensively in south Indian cooking. Of all things, I love it in the soup form! It's so easy to make and tastes really good. I combined my soup with sizzling garlic bread and had an amazing starter. So if you are tempted to grab a packet of ready to make soups at your super market- think again... All you need is pumpkin, onions and a good blender for this soup.



Pumpkin soup Ingredients-

1 medium sized pumpkin - peeled & cut in small chunks
1 medium onion chopped
2 garlic cloves chopped
bay leaf - 1
cumin seeds
salt (according to taste)
1 cup vegetable broth (1 to 1.5 cups- enough to cover the pumpkins for boiling)
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Preparation-

Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds with bay leaf. As the seeds start to sputter, saute onions and garlic over moderate heat for five minutes. Add the pumpkin chunks and pour vegetable broth to cover all the pumpkin in the pan. Add salt and pepper. Allow the pumpkins to soften and cook till they become tender. Remove from flame and allow it to cool a bit. Pick out the bay leaf and puree the soup with a hand blender.  Serve hot with chopped coriander on top.



Now comes the star- Herbs n garlic bread!


Ingredients-

Butter at room temperature
Garlic powder
Italian herbs/seasoning
dash of chilli flakes
salt (if you are using unsalted butter)
Bread slices

Preparation-

Mix garlic powder, herbs, chilli flakes and salt to the butter. Quote liberal dose of this butter on your bread slices and toast it in a frying pan till the bread absorbs the butter and becomes golden brown. Enjoy!

5 comments:

  1. Hi! very delight to see and i love to taste.Keep rocking.

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  2. Nice soup... Thanks to visit my blog...
    Happy New Year 2011 !!!

    Pongal Feast Event

    Kurinji

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  3. Hey Suchi,

    Happy new year to you!!Beautiful soup...Event for this month is soup recipes in my blog...:)

    DR.Sameena@

    http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com/

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  4. Hey there! Happy New Year! I just saw your comment on my friend Biren's site and I thought I would check you out so to speak! Your blog is lovely and I love the title. Looks like a great soup too! Come visit if you can!

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  5. Very inviting---loved the herb/garlic bread !!

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