Pumpkin soup with caraway seeds When the cold comes, you want to come home and eat something hot, thick and sharp! It's better to not think of soup-puree, especially if it's a pumpkin soup with caraway and garlic. Pumpkin soups are cooked and eaten all over the world - in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. And variants of its preparation amaze with the variety. For example, in Italy very often pumpkin soup is prepared with cheese, rice or wine. In America, in the homeland of Halloween, this holiday is never complete without this dish, but here it is prepared not so dense. On the island of Haiti, pumpkin soup is an obligatory festive dish, served for the New Year, which coincides there with the Independence Day. In England, in pumpkin soup necessarily add leeks and an apple, and in France - fresh cream and chicken broth. The thickest pumpkin soup is cooked in Australia, adding a huge amount of spices to it. And the national Uzbek dish shirkavak is nothing but a milk soup with the same pumpkin. In a word, you can cook soups on the basis of this beautiful fruit all winter and they will never get bored. And first try the pumpkin soup with caraway seeds - you will definitely like its delicate taste.
Ingredients:- Chicken broth 1500 ml
- Pumpkin 500 g
- Onions 1 pc.
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Olive oil 2 tbsp. l.
- Cumin dry 2 tsp.
- Lemon juice 2 tsp.
- Pepper black ground 1 pinch
- Salt 2 pinch
- Step 1 To prepare the soup, we take pre-cooked chicken broth, pumpkin pulp, onions, garlic, olive oil and cumin.
- Step 2 Peel the onion and garlic and cut it large. Pumpkin flesh is well washed and cut as large.
- Step 3 Pour the vegetables with chicken broth and put it on low heat until the pumpkin is soft for 30-40 minutes.
- Step 4 Add a pinch of black ground pepper, a pinch of salt and 1-2 teaspoons of lemon juice during cooking.
- Step 5 Finish the vegetables in a blender.
- Step 6 Preheat 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil and fry the cumin for 3-4 minutes.
- Step 7 Pour the soup-mashed potatoes into the pan, add the cumin and bring everything to a boil.
- Step 8 Then remove the pumpkin soup from the fire and add salt to taste.