Creamy Pumpkin Soup

This delicious pumpkin soup is a great comfort food for the holidays. Too bad I freaking started school today. OH WELL. For those of you who have no idea what to do with pumpkin, you can use it for soups like I did, or put it in raviolis, risotto..or even pair it with some delicious poultry. Those of you who don't know, you can actually go to the asian supermarkets and buy a pumpkin for a dollar and seventy cents. I went to Vons once and bought myself a 5 pound pumpkin; they priced it at 8 bucks. That's ridiculous. I bought a freaking pumpkin at a asian supermarket for 1/5th of that. Well now you know and here I am to share some of that knowledge with you. Anyway lets begin 

 Ingredients
1. Pumpkin
2. 4 cups Chicken or Vegetable Stock
3. 1 cup of cream
4. 3 cloves Garlic
5. Salt and Pepper 

Cook Time: 8 minutes
Prep Time: 20 to 25 minutes 








Directions
1. What you first want to do is cut your pumpkin in half. Sorry I didn't post up a picture but you're pretty much going to be cutting it like you were going to prepare a layer cake. Save the rest of your pumpkin for next time. Now I forgot to mention the pumpkin you get at the asian markets are green so don't freak out if you dont see any of the traditional looking pumpkins

2. De-seed your pumpkin and crush your garlic cloves. Now just put them right in the center of the pumpkin. That's right, you're not doing anything to them. The oven is going to slowly roast the pumpkin along with the garlic. You can even put in some thyme or rosemary if you want as well. Roast it for a good 20 to 25 minutes at 375 degrees

3. Once your pumpkin is done, use a spoon and scoop out the flesh of the pumpkin. Get a nice pot and just add your roast pumpkin, stock, and cream. Season with some salt and pepper. Now i'm sure at this stage it doesnt have the texture that a soup has. Once you're done cooking it out for the next 8 minutes put it in a blender and just blitz it. And now you're ready to serve

This is one of the easiest satisfactions you could possibly make. You can even throw in a knob of butter if you want just to make it a bit more creamy but one of my friends wanted me to make a somewhat partial vegetarian dish so there you go. Enjoy! First day of school done, a crap ton more to go....

Fast.Easy.Delicious