Pumpkin Soup
Grilled Pumpkin Soup with Carrot
Grilled pumpkin is extra sweet and extra juicy and it is worth grilling your pumpkin before adding it to your favorite pumpkin soup recipe for extra good results. This grilled pumpkin soup combines pumpkin and carrot with cream, cilantro, and wine for a really flavorful pumpkin soup.
This grilled pumpkin soup recipe has parsley, which brings out the savory pumpkin, onion, and carrot flavor and contrasts well with their sweet grilled flavor. The cream thickens the soup up and is a good garnish too and you can use fresh parsley as a tasty looking garnish to finish the soup off.
If you want to use other vegetables in this grilled pumpkin soup recipe, like zucchini, potato, or squash, you can grill these at the same time as the pumpkin and add them to the soup. This grilled pumpkin soup supports any vegetable flavors and you can use up leftover vegetables in it. Just boil or sauté anything that does not grill well.
Juicy Grilled Pumpkin Soup with White Wine
Ingredients -
3 lbs pumpkin
1 carrot, peeled and cut into 4 pieces
1 cup light cream, plus more to garnish
2 tablespoons melted butter
˝ onion, sliced
2 cups chicken broth
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Cilantro, to garnish
Preparation:
Preheat the grill to medium. Slice the top off the pumpkin, remove the seeds and stringy mass, and put the top back on.
Grill it over an indirect heat for an hour or 2 or until the pumpkin is tender.
Wipe half the butter over the carrot pieces 20 minutes before the end of the cooking time and grill them until they are tender and slightly charred. Scoop the flesh out of the pumpkin.
Sauté the onion in the rest of the butter until it is soft, then add the wine and cook for 10 minutes over a medium heat.
Add the pumpkin flesh and broth and simmer for 15 minutes.
Puree the soup in a blender or food processor, in batches, and then add the cream, along with some salt and pepper.
Divide the soup between 6 serving bowls and top each one with a dollop of cream and some fresh parsley.
(Serves 6)
