Potato and pumpkin soup is based on the potato soup from Grandma’s Cookbook and is refined with pumpkin. You can freely choose from the familiar varieties here: Hokkaido, butternut squash or Muscat pumpkin – whatever you have on hand or like best.
Tip
Add one tablespoon of pumpkin seed oil shortly before serving.
Ingredients
- 1 small pumpkin
- 1 kg potatoes, mainly waxy
- 4 onions
- 100 g bacon (optional)
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 leek
- 6 carrots
- 1 l vegetable stock
- 300 ml white wine
- 60 g butter
- 1/2 bunch parsley
- 20 stalks chives
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- salt and pepper
Wash the pumpkin and peel it if necessary; Hokkaido pumpkin does not need to be peeled. Remove the seeds and cut the pumpkin into approximately 1 cm cubes.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Peel and dice the onions and garlic.
Wash the leek and carrots and cut the leek into thin rings and the carrots into small cubes.
Dice the bacon and fry it in a large pot. Add the onions and garlic and sauté until translucent. Add the pumpkin, leek and carrots, sauté for about 3 minutes, then pour in the vegetable stock.
Add the diced potatoes. Bring briefly to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally to prevent anything from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Add the white wine towards the end.
Use an immersion blender to purée the soup roughly, leaving some texture. Then add the chopped herbs and season with salt, pepper, freshly grated nutmeg and the dried herbs.
Serving
Pour the potato and pumpkin soup into preheated bowls and garnish with finely chopped chives or parsley.
More Pumpkin Soup Recipes
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Where to Buy
Pumpkin Seed Oil
Kräuterland steirisches Bio Kürbiskernöl 250ml aus gerösteten Kürbiskernen*
Kürbishof DEIMEL Steiermark/Austria – 500 ml Dose Original Steirisc
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