Author: Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger. Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
I love this soup because the ingredients make it taste really exciting.
Get some fresh ginger and madrascurry , this goes best with the soup.
The curry insider tip :
Wherever curry comes in, always season with something sweet ,
this makes the curry and the entire preparation a treat for the palate and will delight you twice as much.
Always add some brown sugar, honey or agave syrup to the curry, which makes the curry taste round.
Tip for seasoning the soup from chef Thomas Sixt
Ginger and turmeric on the cutting board.
Brown sugar made from sugar cane is considered healthier than white industrial sugar.
4. For Special Days… Pumpkin Soup with Ginger and Prawns
This soup is a great dish when guests come to you or you want to conjure up something special for your loved ones.
You can get different types of shrimp in the supermarket.
Raw shrimp: You can tell by the gray color. Cooked shrimp: These are already cooked and glazed.
—> Please only toss cooked crustaceans very briefly in butter, otherwise they will get a rubbery consistency.
—> Please peel the raw crustaceans, cut the top and remove the intestines, then fry over high heat.
remove the intestines from raw shrimp
So that the shrimp stay on the plate, I cut them in half lengthways to the end of the tail. The two halves are still held together at the tail. When frying, the crustacean turns up and the shape is perfect to appear as a tower in the soup.
Alternative soup accompaniments: Instead of the crustaceans, you can also use pieces of salmon or modify the soup accompaniment to make it vegetarian or vegan with smoked tofu.
Insole variants tip from chef Thomas Sixt
There is also a tip for smoked tofu:
Place the diced smoked tofu decoratively in the soup and coat the tofu with sesame seeds, as I show with the tofu with sesame dish.
Vegetarian recipe by chef Thomas Sixt.
5. Variants Tips for Pumpkin Soup with Ginger
I would like to list some ideas for the encores here:
Broth: You can use vegetable broth or chicken soup as a base.
Cream: Try adding coconut milk, cream or soy cream.
Butter: The soup gets an exciting taste with nut butter instead of fresh butter!
Pumpkin: The Hokkaido pumpkin is absolutely gelingsicher with skin.
With muscat pumpkin or butternut squash – use peeled – you show your expert status in the kitchen.
Tamari: Boil down some soy sauce, drizzle a little of it into the soup. Taste explosion!
Pumpkin seed oil: The oil also fits this soup, less is more!
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Hello Thomas, I'm not sure how exactly that is done at the end with the mixing with butter and how much butter I use in relation to it. I'm looking forward to cooking it again 😋! Kind regards Michelle
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Hello Michelle, Thank you for your query. To be honest, I don't weigh the butter to mix it up. Gladly take a little more, ice-cold butter, 2-3 cubes, each approx. 20 g I wish you good luck! Kind regards Thomas
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Hey there, Cleo is in touch 🙋♀️ I was able to easily cook your soup – thanks to the good description 😉 My question: can I also prepare a pumpkin sauce like this? Imagine poultry. Best regards
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Hello Cleo, thank you for your positive feedback. I'm very happy 🙂 Regarding your question about cooking soup with sauce: – You can thicken the soup with cornstarch mixed in cold water. – For 0.2 L of the soup use about 1-1.5 tsp of cornstarch and 100 ml of cold water. – Mix the cornstarch in cold water so that no lumps form. – Boil the soup and slowly add the starch water. – Continue cooking the soup, then binds it to the sauce and becomes creamier. – Season with salt, some sugar and optionally cayenne pepper – Mix with cold butter before serving. I wish you the best of luck Greetings Thomas
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Hi Thomas, I cooked your foam soup for me and my darling today. A thousand thanks for this delicious guide and the knowledge gained. LG Pauli
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Hello Pauli, the frothing of the soup actually brings a special taste experience and a fine mouthfeel. Enjoy the pumpkin season! Kind regards, Thomas Sixt
Hello Thomas, I'm not sure how exactly that is done at the end with the mixing with butter and how much butter I use in relation to it. I'm looking forward to cooking it again 😋! Kind regards Michelle