Warm and delicious pumpkin soup

One of my favourite soups to have is pumpkin soup! It's healthy, delicious and warms the soul in winter. There are lots of different ways of cooking but below is a simple quick recipe for those cold days and nights.

Cooking time: approx. 40-60min

Ingredients:

1 leek (white part)

1 brown onion

1/2 kent pumpkin (or butternut pumpkin)

500mL vegetable stock

A little cooking cream

Olive oil

Salt

Method:

Prepare your ingredients by cleaning all the vegetables and roughly chopping the white part of the leek, brown onion and pumpkin.

In a pot, on low heat to medium heat, fry the chopped leek and brown onions with a bit of olive oil, until brown and caramelised (15 - 20 min). For maximum flavour, cook on low heat for about 30-40 min but it's still ok to have the heat a little higher if you don't have the time.

Then add the chopped pumpkins and fry for 5 min.

Then add vegetable stock and turn heat up high and bring to boil. Boil until pumpkin is soft when you poke it with a fork.

Once pumpkin is soft, get a handheld blender and blend until no lumps in the soup.

Then finally add a bit of cream and cumin.

Viola!!!

You have a beautifully spiced pumpkin soup. This can be served with some toast or toasted sourdough.

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