Pumpkin Soup with Apple and Ginger

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This Hokkaido pumpkin soup is cosy and comforting on a cold night and autumn / winter melancholy is a thing of the past. Adding apples to the soup lends an interesting fruity flavour to the usual pumpkin soup and the slightly spicy chilli note also makes it perfect for warming up on cold days. The soup tastes particularly delicious with butter fried apple slices (deglazed with a little of Calvado if desired) and some homemade bread. Use tart apples like Pink Lady, or Granny Smith or Braeburn for the soup.

 

1 Onion, peeled and finely chopped 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped 20 g Ginger root, peeled and finely chopped 600 g Hokkaido pumpkin, cut into smaller pieces 2 Apples (I used Pink Lady) 1 sprig Thyme 1 tbsp Olive oil infused with chilli Sea salt Freshly milled black pepper 100 ml Unfiltered apple juice (or white wine) 800 ml Chicken or vegetable stock 1 tbsp Butter Pumpkin seeds or pine nuts, toasted 1 tbsp Chopped parsley Pumpkin seed oil, optional

1. Peel and finely chop the onion, garlic and ginger. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces. Wash the apples and clean, halve, core and chop 1 of them. Wash the thyme and shake dry.
2. Heat the chillli-infused olive oil in a pan. Sauté the chopped onion, garlic and ginger a couple of minutes until aromatic. Add in pumpkin and apple. Cook for a further 3-5 minutes over medium heat.
3. Season with salt and pepper, add the thyme and deglaze with the apple juice. Then add the stock and simmer over a low heat for about 30 minutes or until the pumpkins are tender. Remove the thyme and star anise and puree the soup with an immersion blender.
4. Halve and core the remaining apple and cut into thin slices. Heat the butter in a pan. Sauté the apple slices for 3 minutes over a medium heat. Deglaze with a little Calvados if desired.
5. Serve the pumpkin soup topped with apple slices and sprinkle with nuts or seeds and parsley. Drizzle some pumpkin seed oil over if using.

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