Ingredients ?

Butternut squash 400g

Onion 50g

Scallion 50g

Carrot 50g

Celery 50g

Garlic 3 cloves

Ginger 10g

Capsicum 5g

Cream 15g

Enjoyable flower 5g

Entry-level Western food｜High value gold pumpkin soup recipe ?

Sauté the onion, garlic, scallion, and sauté; then add the carrots, celery, ginger, and chili pepper, and sauté the ingredients to soften, then add the pumpkin and water. Just froth the water over all the ingredients.

Cook on medium heat for about twenty minutes, then use a cooking rod to break up all the ingredients; once broken up, strain through a sieve and season with salt before serving

Serve with a drizzle of cream, then sprinkle with freshly roasted pumpkin seeds and edible flowers.

Tips

1. What kind of pumpkin should I choose?

Pumpkin try to choose the old sweet pumpkin, so that the taste of the soup will be thicker, and salty and sweet intertwined together to make the taste more full, and finally the aftertaste in the mouth is a light spicy flavor ...

European pumpkin has many varieties of pumpkin, the size and color of the pumpkin is very different, the taste is also a little different. It seems that in China it is not common to find so many varieties. In the summer when the pumpkins are ripe, many farmers put the pumpkins on the roadside, and then set up a collection box, people who want to buy can pick up the pumpkins, and then put the money into the box, the most primitive unmanned sale of pumpkins. The price is not too expensive, 2.5 euros equivalent to about 20 yuan.

2. Why strain pumpkin soup?

Western chefs believe that the taste of food is not the same, but also affects the people's brain on the judgment of delicious, Western restaurants in order to make the dishes more perfect, the chef will be pumpkin soup filtered a few times, the guests will be able to taste more dense and smooth pumpkin soup. If you make your own at home, you can choose whether or not to strain it.

3. Are there other uses for pumpkin besides Halloween and cooking?

Pumpkin also has a product that can not be forgotten, that is, the nutritious pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seed kernel has the effect of lowering blood pressure and sugar, the Austrian town of Styria is precisely because of the abundance of high-quality pumpkin seed oil is famous. Pumpkin seed oil is also great for plating, thanks to its thick consistency and deep green color.

Pumpkins, with their pleasing colors and shapes, are inexpensive and easy to store during the harvest, and are used not only for lanterns at Halloween, but also for illustrations, tabletop decorations, and more at other times of the year.