Thai-style pumpkin soup
Spice up classic pumpkin soup with this easy recipe. It’s the perfect way to start your Easter lunch.
Serves
6
Prep
10m
Note: + Cooling time
Cooking
40m
Ingredients
- 1 tbs peanut oil
- 1 brown onion, chopped
- 1 whole butternut pumpkin, seeded, peeled, chopped
- 2 carrots, peeled, chopped
- 2 tbs yellow curry paste
- 4 cups (1L) chicken stock or vegetable stock
- 270ml can coconut milk
- 1 tbs lime juice
- 1 tbs fish sauce
- 1 tbs brown sugar
Method
STEP 1
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring, for 5 mins or until onion softens. Add pumpkin, carrot and curry paste and cook, stirring, for 2 mins or until aromatic. Add stock and increase heat to high. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook, partially covered, for 30 mins or until pumpkin and carrot are tender. Set aside to cool slightly.
STEP 2
Use a stick blender to carefully blend the pumpkin mixture until smooth. Reserve 1/4 cup (60ml) of the coconut milk. Add the remaining coconut milk to the pumpkin mixture with the lime juice, fish sauce and brown sugar. Stir to combine.
STEP 3
Ladle soup evenly among serving bowls. Drizzle with reserved coconut milk. Season to serve.
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Want more heat? Try using red curry paste instead of yellow curry paste.
Serve with coriander sprigs, toasted coconut flakes and chilli sauce
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