Pumpkin Soup & other ideas to use up your pumpkin this year!

This year I was on a mission to use up the pumpkin that didn’t get carved at Halloween. So what did I do with it? I made a delish pumpkin soup, roasted the seeds, pumpkin puree and muffins.

I wanted to share the soup recipe but if you want any of the other recipes I would be happy to share. My pumpkin energy balls are already up on my Blog.

Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

• 8 cups of pumpkin pieces cubed

• 6 cups of vegetable broth (or any broth of your choice)

• 5 medium carrots peeled and cut into pieces

• 2 apples peeled and cut into big pieces

• 1 onion chopped

• 2 garlic cloves

• 1 tsp of cumin

• 1/4 tsp of nutmeg (or up to 1/2 tsp if you like nutmeg)

• Salt & pepper to taste

• 1 Tbs of olive oil

Quick & simple croutons:

• Cut up in cubes some stale bread or baguette (if you dont have stale bread, use regular bread)

• In a pan, add in 1 Tbs of olive oil or butter, add your cubed bread and stir until golden

• I added dried rosemary and chili flakes which was yummy

How to:

• Add you olive oil to the bottom of the pot, heat on medium and then add your onion and stir until transparent

• Add the garlic, cumin and nutmeg and stir for 30 sec

• Add the broth, carrots, apple and pumpkin

• Bring to a boil and then bring down to a simmer (medium) for 30 min or until your pumpkin and carrots are soft

• Blend until smooth

• I added croutons and then ready to be served!

Enjoy and let me know what you think ;)

Other ideas of what to do with your pumpkin:

• Steam big pieces of pumpkin and once cooled, blend it up to make a puree. I will share a muffin recipe, energy balls and homemade granola you can make with your puree.

• Roast the seeds with a little sea salt…yum!