Thai Pumpkin Soup with Chicken

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thai Pumpkin Soup with Chicken

Serves: 4

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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