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Friday, October 21, 2011

Thai Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkins are in season & available in a variety of weird and wonderful shapes. My favourite to cook with is butternut squash. Although they  are all interchangeable in most recipes.
This recipe is from a Waitrose recipe card from October 2004! Over the years its been adapted and tweaked to today's version given below.


1kg (approx) Butternut squash, peeled, seeded & cut into even sized chunks
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion chopped
thumb sized piece of ginger chopped
splodge of Thai red curry paste. 
400ml of coconut milk
400ml stock or water


Preheat oven to 180C. Put pumpkin chunks in a non stick tray, season and toss with a little oil.  Roast for approx 30 mins or until tender. Don't worry if some bits char, it adds flavour.
Heat oil and sweat onion & ginger with the lid on for 10mins. Stir in the curry paste (if using, it still tastes good without) and cook for a minute or so.
Add in pumpkin, coconut milk and stock or water.  Cover pan and bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 mins.
Puree the soup in batches and return to the pan to reheat for serving. It usually comes up quite thick so I add extra water at this stage.
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Its a great Autumn Fall soup for all the family. Just leave out the Thai paste if you don't like it spicy or add in more if you do!

3 comments:

  1. Been meaning to ask you about this soup recipe...Don't think I am a total div but do you peel the squash before you roast it? I make soup with squash all the time but I peel it raw and then chuck the cubes in. The thing is it's a bit of a pain as your hands get stained yellow and also I imagine roasted first it would taste much nicer?? Peel or no peel??

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  2. I think I did peel it, this time. But agreed it is a right pain to peel a squash, I have plenty of near misses with fingers & peeler. I have also done it loads of time not peeling it and then when the squash is cooked scrap the flesh from the skin and use as required. x

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  3. Great. I'll try that with the next batch...we have a constant supply of the winter warmer in the fridge at the moment.

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