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The pumpkin cream soup recipe with pumpkin seed oil, dill and bacon is a classic for all friends of Austrian cuisine.
Styria is a wonderful federal state in Austria and has a lot to offer in terms of cuisine and landscape.
You prepare this pumpkin soup with whipped cream (cream), coconut milk has no place here.
The only outlier I allow myself is ginger, which many of my Styrian friends like to add to the soup.
You can find ginger in the ingredient list as an option.
What is special about this traditional pumpkin soup?
Creamy appearance, crispy cubes of black bread, dill, crispy bacon and freshly torn horseradish make this soup a top highlight of Austrian cuisine.
Here I describe the simplest way of preparing soup step by step:
Squash shopping: Hokkaido, nutmeg or butternut squash.
Scooping: Cut the squash in half with a knife, scrape out and remove the seeds with a spoon.
Peel & Clean: Remove the skin thinly with a knife.
Note: With the Hokkaido, you can use the peel and save yourself the peeling.
Cut into small pieces: Cut the pumpkin with peel or peeled pumpkin into small pieces.
Provide high pot: Place the pumpkin pieces in a high pot.
Onion and garlic: Peel one onion and garlic clove, cut into small pieces, add.
Optional ginger: Place a slice of ginger with the vegetables.
Make soup: Cover ingredients in pot with water, add vegetable broth (powder or cube), season with salt, pepper, nutmeg.
Add white wine: Add a little dry white wine.
Boil soup: Bring the soup mixture to a boil and simmer until slightly simmering, 25 minutes.
Add cream: Bring the soup to a boil again, add whipped cream (cream) to the boiling soup, then it will not flocculate.
Blend the soup: Blend the soup with a hand blender.
Let the taste develop: Now let the soup sit next to the stove for about 8 minutes.
Strain: Strain through a fine sieve to taste, or have ready as prepared.
Prepare the soup ingredients: Brown black bread cubes in butter and season with salt and pepper, bacon cubes, provide dill, horseradish (horseradish) finely torn provide. Put pumpkin seed oil ready to hand in position.
Arrange soup: The pumpkin soup final with cold butter mix and foam up, arrange, soup inserts in addition direct and serve quickly.
A Star Chef is coming to visit? Cook him this soup, he will love it!
As stupid as that sounds… I've never made croutons myself… now I'll make them with every soup 😉