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Spicy Pumpkin Cream Soup with Prawn Skewer

5 from 3 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 8 people

Ingredients
 

Spicy pumpkin cream soup:

  • 1 Hokkaido pumpkin approx. 1300 g / cleaned approx. 850 g
  • 3 Potatoes approx. 300 g
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 1 piece Ginger approx. 20 g
  • 1 Red chilli pepper
  • 2 tbsp Sunflower oil
  • 1250 ml Vegetable broth (5 teaspoons instant)
  • 1 tbsp Mild curry powder
  • 1 tbsp Sweet soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Ground turmeric
  • 3 big pinches Coarse sea salt from the mill
  • 3 big pinches Colorful pepper from the mill
  • 2 big pinches Ground nutmeg
  • 2 big pinches Ground cinnamon
  • 1 big pinches Sugar
  • 100 g Whipped cream
  • 50 g Creme fraiche Cheese

Prawn skewer: (For 4 people!)

  • 200 g Party prawns (2 packets)
  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • 1 tbsp Sunflower oil
  • 2 big pinches Coarse sea salt from the mill
  • 4 Wooden skewers

Serve:

  • 4 Stalk Parsley for garnish

Instructions
 

Spicy pumpkin cream soup:

  • Wash the Hokaido pumpkin, quarter it, remove the flesh with the seeds, peel with the peeler, first cut into slices and then into cubes. Peel, wash and dice the potatoes. Peel and finely dice the garlic cloves and ginger. Clean, core, wash and finely dice the chilli pepper. Heat sunflower oil (2 tbsp) in a saucepan and stir-fry the vegetables (garlic clove cubes + ginger cubes + chili pepper cubes and pumpkin cubes + potato cubes) vigorously. Deglaze / pour in the vegetable stock (1250 ml) and add mild curry powder (1 tbsp), sweet soy sauce (1 tbsp), ground turmeric (1 teaspoon), colored pepper from the mill (3 big pinches), ground nutmeg (2 big pinches ), Ground cinnamon (2 big pinches) and sugar (1 big pinch) and simmer for 20 minutes with the lid closed. Work through / puree well with the hand blender and fold in whipped cream (100 g) and crème fraîche (50 g).

Prawn skewers:

  • Heat the butter (1 tbsp) with sunflower oil (1 tbsp) in a pan, add the party prawns and slowly fry on both sides. Season with coarse sea salt from the mill (2 big pinches) and thread on wooden skewers.

Serve:

  • Spicy pumpkin cream soup garnished with prawn skewers and parsley, serve.

Tip:

  • You can freeze the rest of the soup (4 servings) in advance.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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