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Favorite Pumpkin Soup Recipes

Posted by timethief • 10/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Autumn, cooking, halloween, pumpkin soup, recipes, squash

Canadian Pumpkin Soup
This is a pumpkin soup with curry and maple caramelized onions.
It takes about 40 minutes to make and serves 8.
Ingredients
8 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 large yellow onions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup real Canadian maple syrup
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 large apples, peeled, cored and diced
2 (15-ounce) cans pumpkin or fresh pumpkin
juice from 2 oranges
6 cups milk
Salt and ground black pepper, to taste
small rounds of toast or holland rusks

Instructions
(1) Use a large skillet on a medium-high heat, pour in 4 tablespoons of olive oil and add half of the onions. Then saute until the onions are very soft and lightly browned.
(2) Add the maple syrup and ginger, then reduce heat to medium-low and continue cooking, stirring often, until the onions are thick and caramelized and then set aside.
(3) While the onions are caramelizing, in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, combine the remaining 4 tablespoons of olive oil, the remaining onion, the curry powder, red pepper flakes and the apple. Then saute until the onion is tender.
(4) Add in the pumpkin and orange juice and then place the mixture into a blender or food processor. Add milk and puree until smooth.
(5) Pour the soup mixture into and saucepan and gently simmer. Season with salt and pepper.
(6) Ladle the soup into bowls, then top each serving with toasts or rusks and spoon the caramelized onions onto the toasts.

Invitation
If you have a favorite pumpkin or squash soup recipe on your blog please share a link to it. If you don't have one on your blog but you would like to post one into this thread instead - go for it!

Discussion question: What's the best pumpkin or squash dish you have ever eaten?

User Comments

10/31/08

rachgd

Wow, I love pumpkin soup! I never thought I'd be discussing it online, though.

I must say, I've never seen such an intricate and intriguing version as yours. You wacky Canucks! The versions I have always known basically amount to boiling some pumpkin (butternut, for preference, though Jap is also good), adding some sauteed garlic and onion, pureeing, and then adding salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. I just thought that was what pumpkin soup was supposed to be!

Thanks for showing me the error of my ways.

Best pumpkin dish ever: easy. Pumpkin and Cashew Red Curry @ The Vegie Bar in Melbourne. Or should I say, best pumpkin dish SO FAR? After all, haven't tried your soup yet... but I will. It sounds divine!

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1. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @rachgd
  I'm glad the recipe sounds appealing to you. It's really tasty and a great treat to eat at this damp and spooky time of the year. Please let me know what you think when you try it.
10/31/08

buddhaofhollywood

forghet the soup, love your new hair style!

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1. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @buddha
  Thanks for the compliment.
  BTW your post will be publicized later today.
  As usual I'm running behind schedule.
2. 10/31/08
  
  buddhaofhollywood
  
  Excellent! send me a link I wana see it. Also I took your advice and submited to Enzine I'm waiting for them to reply
3. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @buddhaof hollywood
  Check your shoutbox for the url your post has been published.
10/31/08

dosox

8 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 large yellow onions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup real Canadian maple syrup
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 large apples, peeled, cored and diced
2 (15-ounce) cans *SOMETHING ELSE*
juice from 2 oranges
6 cups milk
Salt and ground black pepper, to taste
small rounds of toast or holland rusks

CAN I USE SOME OTHER THINGS INSTEAD OF PUMPKIN. I DON'T LIKE PUMPKINS

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1. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @dosox
  I have never tried a substitute but I imagine that any squash would work.
  Do you like tomatoes?
  Do you like watercress?
  Do you like wild rice?
  If so you will find recipes here www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/summer-soup-recipes
10/31/08

Theresa111

I bet if you got small pumpkins and sliced the tops off, roasted them, with butter and a few spices inside, then served your marvelous soup inside the roasted pumpkins, you would be the toast of the party. Add a dollop of creme fraische on top.

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1. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @Theresa111
  Yes! What a great idea I &hearts it!
2. 10/31/08
  
  Theresa111
  
  I &heart; it 2
  
  I forgot how to make a heart
3. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @Theresa111
  To make a heart ♥
  type & hearts without a space between the & and the h
  also make sure you use hearts and not the singular heart with no s at the end
4. 10/31/08
  
  Theresa111
  
  I ♥ it 2 Yea! Oops. Thank you tt &hearts
10/31/08

DocNicole

I just steam any squash with ginger and then put it in the blender with a can of light coconut milk and chicken broth. Add spices to taste. My fav anti-viral soup recipe.

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1. 10/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @DocNicole
  That sounds very simple and very good.
11/02/08

befuzled

Here's a great Pumpkin soup recipe. It's low-Carb for those that track that as well. Regardless it's Yum-o!

Pumpkin & Sausage Soup

16 ounces country style sausage
1/2 cup onions, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 cup fresh mushrooms, chopped
15 ounces pumpkin, canned
5 cups low sodium chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup water

Over medium heat brown the sausage breaking into small bits. Drain fat. Add the onion, garlic, Italian seasoning and mushrooms and saute until vegetables are cooked.

Add the canned pumpkin and the broth, stirring to mix well. Cook at a low simmer for 20-30 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in heavy cream, sour cream and water.

Servings: 8

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1. 11/02/08
  
  timethief
  
  Thanks so much for sharing your recipe.
11/02/08

Sonnenblumen

Have you tried freshly squeezed Orange Juice and fresh Pumpkin soup?

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1. 11/02/08
  
  timethief
  
  No I haven't. The recipe I provided does include orange juice. Can you provide a recipe?
11/02/08

Sonnenblumen

I'll dig one out.

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1. 11/02/08
  
  timethief
  
  Great!
11/02/08

chrissymarie321

I confess, I have never, ever eaten Pumpkin! I can't remember ever seeing them until the halloween thing started here in the UK.....
There, what an admission, LOL

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11/10/08

timethief

That's unbelievable. Pumpkins are great and the soup is wonderful. I'm wondering now if anyone else has any squash recipes they would like to share. If so please post them here.

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11/10/08

loverofjazz

my favorite recipe is anything i can talk somebody else into cooking for me.

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1. 11/10/08
  
  timethief
  
  Wow! I can sure identify with that.
11/10/08

cranelegs

i've got a good recipe but it's communist. interested? :-)

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1. 11/10/08
  
  timethief
  
  I'll give such a smack your ears will ring! (joke)
  What part of "we have had nothing but American politics for 9 months now, and you political types have your own sandbox, so go and throw sand at each other in it" do these members just not get?
  
  FWIW I'm considering making a squash soup with special "commie" additives in it and airmailing it to them.
2. 11/10/08
  
  cranelegs
  
  my ears are ringing but it was worth it for a little taste of timethief commie squash soup (they are a testy lot aren't they)!
  
  love pumpkin soup and befuzled's sounds oh so good!