Vegetarian Recipes - Pumpkin Soup with amaretti Recipe

  
 

Pumpkin Soup with Amaretti Recipe

 

Ingredients

 

Serves 4

  • 1 small onion, finely chopped

  • 1 tbsp butter

  • 1 lb/450 g pumpkin or winter squash, cleaned and diced

  • 2 cup/500 ml boiling Vegetable Stock

  • 1 2/3 cups/400 ml heavy/double cream

  • 1 tsp sugar

  • salt to taste

  • 12 amaretti cookies, crumbled

Method:

  1. Sauté the onion in half the butter in a frying pan over low heat for 5 minutes, or until softened.

  2. Add the pumpkin and sauté over medium heat for 3 minutes. Pour in the stock and cook for about 15 minutes, or until the pumpkin has softened.

  3. Transfer to a food processor or blender and process until smooth.

  4. Pour the pumpkin cream into a large saucepan. Mix in the cream, sugar, and salt and bring to a boil.

  5. Add the remaining butter and mix well. Ladle into soup bowls and sprinkle with the crumbled amaretti cookies. Serve hot.