Pumpkin
Soup
By Executive
Chef James Ormsby, San Francisco, CA
This
recipe will work with any hard squash.
Servings:
4 cups of soup - 4 portions
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups Pumpkin (peeled, diced and seeded)
1 1/2 cups Water
1/2 cup Heavy Cream
1/2 cup Onion (diced)
1/4 lb. Butter (unsalted)
1 Bayleaf
1 tspn. Fresh Thyme
1 tspn. Fresh Sage (chopped)
1 tspn. Sugar
1 tbls. Salt
2 tbls. Sherry Wine
Procedures:
1. Take the butter, place in a medium
pot, stirring it with a whisk over high heat until it
turns golden brown. Add in thyme, bayleaf, and sage, as
it will fry the herbs and bring out the flavors. Add the
onions, sugar and salt, and then the sherry wine.
2.
Add a cup and a half of water, and then add in the pumpkin
meat. (Use canned pumpkin if you need to, it's the same
ratio). Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer the soup for
one hour. Make sure the pumpkin's very tender. Cover,
so it doesn't reduce too much -pumpkin has a lot of water
in it.
3.
Put it in a blender, and then pass through a fine sieve.
Put back in pot, warm gently, add cream. Put in half a
tsp of nutmeg, add 2 or 3 tbls. of salt to taste - add
2 tspn. of fresh lime juice, divide into bowls, and garnish.
Garnish
Ingredients:
Pumpkin Seed Oil (in a plastic squeeze bottle with a fine
spout)
1 tbls. Chives (minced)
4 tbls. Creme Fraiche
1 tspn. Cinnamon
1 tspn. Nutmeg
1 tspn. Black Ppepper (freshly cracked)
1 tspn Dry Ginger
1 tspn. Allspice
2 tbls. Pumpkin Seeds (salted, toasted, shelled)
Procedures:
1. The garnish that goes on top of each
bowl of soup, is 1 tbls. of the spiced creme fraiche.
Combine the cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, ginger and
allspice into the 4 tbls. of creme fraiche. Put one tbls.
on top of each bowl of soup.
2.
Sprinkle a few chopped chives on each bowl. Sprinkle a
few of the toasted pumpkin seeds into each bowl. Squeeze
a line of pumpkin seed oil on the top of the soup. You
are now ready to serve.
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