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Thai Pumpkin Soup with Chicken

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Thai Pumpkin Soup with Chicken

Serves: 4

Thai Pumpkin Soup with Chicken

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
  • 1 leek, sliced
  • 1/2 large butternut pumpkin
  • 1/4 jap or kent pumpkin
  • 1 small sweet potato
  • 2 tablespoons chicken or vegetable stock powder
  • 5 cups water
  • 400ml coconut cream
  • 2 cup shredded cooked chicken (optional)

 

Method:

  • Add the Thai Red Curry Paste and the leek into the bottom of your soup or stock pot and sauté for a couple minutes until the leek starts the soften and the curry paste is very aromatic
  • Add in the peeled and roughly chopped pumpkins and sweet potato, add in the stock powder and top with 5 cups of water
  • Bring to the boil , then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes until the pumpkin is soft and cooked through
  • Use your stick blender to blend the soup until smooth, the soup should seem too thick at this stage
  • Add in the coconut cream and the chicken stirring through until chicken is mixed through well
  • Simmer for approximately 5 minutes to allow the coconut cream and chicken to be heated through.

Recipe Notes:

  • You can use any combination of pumpkin/squash types you like as long as it totals between 2 – 2.5kg of pumpkin
  • Store covered in the fridge for 2 days
  • This recipe is freezer friendly
  • For a vegetarian alternative use vegetable stock and do not add the chicken
  • Picture shows the soup served topped with croutons

 

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