Cream Of Spiced Butternut Pumpkin Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place the butternut squash cubes in a saucepan, cover with water, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat; simmer until tender, about 30 minutes. Drain off water, and set the squash aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
• Melt the butter in a large skillet, then cook the carrots, onion, and celery until tender, about 10 minutes. Place the vegetables, cooked butternut squash, cream, and sour cream into a blender. Cover, and puree until smooth, working in batches if necessary. Transfer the blended vegetables to a soup pot; stir in the chicken broth, nutmeg, black pepper, and salt. Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium-low heat, then simmer gently for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• While the soup is simmering, place the pumpkin halves, cut sides up, on the prepared baking sheet, and bake in the preheated oven until the pumpkin flesh is cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Start the broiler, and place the pumpkin halves under the broiler about 6 inches from the heat source to brown the cut side of the pumpkins, if desired. Place a pumpkin bowl into a decorative soup plate; serve soup in the pumpkin bowls, and sprinkle each serving with Asiago cheese.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan, cook onion, stirring, until soft.
• Stir in pumpkin and potato, cook, stirring, 5 minutes.
• Stir in stock, bring to a boil, simmer, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until pumpkin is soft, stirring occasionally.
• Blend or process soup, in batches, until pureed.
• If desired, push through food mill or large sieve into a large clean saucepan.
• Serve topped with a dollop of sour cream and a few chives (optional).
• If adding cream:.
• Just before serving, add cream, stir over heat until soup is hot.

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. stockpot, combine first six ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until vegetables are tender, 15-20 minutes., Puree soup using an immersion blender. Or, cool slightly and puree, soup in batches in a blender; return to pan and heat through. If desired, serve with sour cream and chives.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan coated with cooking spray, cook onion and celery in butter until tender. Stir in the broth, sugar, bay leaf, salt, ginger, turmeric and cinnamon. Add the squash and potatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until vegetables are tender. , Remove from the heat; cool slightly. Discard bay leaf. In a blender, puree vegetable mixture in batches. Return to the pan. Stir in milk and sherry; heat through (do not boil).

Steps:

• Saute onion and garlic in the butter until soft.
• Add pumpkin, sugar, nutmeg and curry.
• Add stock and bayleaf.
• simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove bayleaf.
• Puree in blender (Hand held blender is fine) with milk.
• Season to taste and finish with cream and chives.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). To make the croutons, combine softened butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Spread butter mixture evenly over one side of each bread slice. Place bread, buttered side up, on a baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until bread is crisp and topping is bubbly. Cut each slice of bread into 8 small triangles or squares.
• Saute onion in butter in a medium saucepan until tender. Add 1 can chicken broth; stir well. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes.
• Transfer broth mixture into the container of a blender or processor. Process until smooth.
• Return mixture to saucepan. Add remaining can of broth, pumpkin, salt, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and ground pepper; stir well. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in whipping cream and heat through. Do not boil. Ladle into individual soup bowls. Top each serving with Cinnamon Croutons.