Pumpkin Soup
Healthy Recipe - Best Ever Pumpkin Soup
This recipe for pumpkin soup combines vegetables, brown rice, and low fat bouillon for a healthy and nutritious lunch or appetizer. This is the best ever pumpkin soup if you are looking for a healthy recipe, rather than a sugar and cream packed pumpkin soup recipe.
Pumpkin can be used in sweet soups and sweet desserts but it is equally good in savory recipes. You can vary the ingredients in this healthy and tasty pumpkin soup recipe if you like. Other vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, yam, sweet potato, and zucchini can be added. You can add any vegetables, which need using up.
If you are using hard vegetables like potato or carrot, make sure they are tender before you take the soup off the heat. If you want to use a lot of vegetables, add more bouillon accordingly so the soup is still the right consistency at the end of the cooking time and does not turn into a stew!
Nicely Spiced White Pumpkin Soup with Chili
Ingredients -
1 ½ cups cooked brown rice
1 cup chopped onion
½ cup cooked wild rice
4 ½ cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons butter
¾ lb fresh pumpkin, diced
¼ lb carrots, diced
½ cup heavy cream
⅛ teaspoon white pepper
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley, to garnish
Preparation:
Cook the rice according to the directions on the pack.
Melt the butter in a big pot, then add the onion and cook until golden.
Stir in the pumpkin, carrots, and broth. Cook for 15 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes.
Add the white pepper and cooked rice and cook for another 10 minutes.
Stir in the cream and bring the pumpkin soup to a boil.
Serve the soup in individual bowls with the parsley sprinkled over the top.
(Serves 8)
Photo Description:
You can see from looking at this photo that the pumpkin soup is wholesome and healthy. Brown rice has a nice, nutty flavor, which suits the sweet, soft pumpkin taste. The soup base is a basic chicken broth, cream and white pepper mixture. You can add a little chili if you want to liven up the flavor or leave it as it is because this is the best ever pumpkin soup if you want a healthy, nutritious meal which is full of fiber and healthy vegetables. The parsley adds a bit of flavor and finishes the presentation of the soup off nicely.
