Pumpkin soup with ginger milk
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Serves
4
Cooking Time
Prep time 20 mins, cook 55 mins (plus cooling)
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1 kg
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butternut pumpkin, cut into 2cm dice
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50 ml
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olive oil
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1
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garlic clove, crushed
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1
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white onion, diced
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500 ml
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(2 cups) hot chicken stock
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150 gm
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thickened cream
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To drizzle:
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pumpkin-seed oil (see note)
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| Ginger milk |
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200 ml
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chicken stock
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60 gm
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(12cm piece) ginger, finely chopped
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500 ml
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(2 cups) milk
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1
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Preheat oven to 180C. Place pumpkin on an oven tray, drizzle with half the oil, season to taste, cover with foil and bake until tender (40 minutes).
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2
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Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat, add onion and garlic, cook until soft but not coloured (3-4 minutes), season to taste and set aside.
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3
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Combine pumpkin, onion mixture and hot stock in a saucepan over medium heat and simmer until pumpkin is starting to fall apart (10-15 minutes). Cool slightly, transfer to a food processor and blend until smooth. Add cream, strain through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan and season to taste. Keep warm.
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4
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Meanwhile, for ginger milk, reduce stock in a saucepan over high heat to 70ml (7-8 minutes), add ginger, cool slightly, cover with plastic wrap and set aside to infuse (20 minutes). Add milk, strain through a fine sieve into a saucepan, bring to the simmer over medium heat and froth with a hand-held blender until very bubbly (2-3 minutes).
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5
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To serve, pour soup into bowls, drizzle with pumpkin-seed oil and spoon ginger milk froth over.
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Note Pumpkin-seed oil, made from pressed roasted pumpkin seeds, is available from select delicatessens including Norton St Grocer.
This recipe is from the June 2012 issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller.
Drink Suggestion Creamy, buttery chardonnay, such as the 2008 Giants Steps Tarraford Vineyard Chardonnay.
RECIPE Brett Graham, The Ledbury, London
PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley
STYLING Geraldine Muñoz & Lisa Featherby
DRINK SUGGESTION Luke Robertson