Marianne's Pumpkin Soup - Aka Kürbissuppe

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 large onion
• 1 kg pumpkin flesh
• 1 large potato
• herb stock, 7 deciliters or 7 vegetable stock, 1 cube
• salt
• pepper
• 3 -4 grated carrots
• 200 -250 ml cream or 200 -250 ml cream, substitute or 200 -250 ml creme fraiche
• chopped chives

Recipe

• 1 chop the onion - not too finely.
• 2 cube the pumpkin.
• 3 cube the potato.
• 4 mix up the stock.
• 5 grate the carrots and get the cream out of the fridge.
• 6 saute the onion in some olive oil or margarine or butter - for a minute or two - add the pumpkin - stir every so often - add the potato and 1/3 of the grated carrots.
• 7 when things start becoming slightly soft, add the stock.
• 8 add salt and pepper. note - i needed a lot of salt for this to become properly tasty, but don't put too much in now. wait until the soup is almost finished.
• 9 let cook for about 30 minutes.
• 10 turn off the stove and use a stick mixer to roughly puree the ingredients. personally, i prefer leaving some nice little chunks in the soup for texture.
• 11 add the cream and the remaining 2/3 of the grated carrots and the chives.
• 12 stir carefully for a little while until the carrots have become warm, but by far soft. add salt to taste.
• 13 serve with bread or add croutons to the soup.
• 14 ps - next time i make this, i think i will add 2-3 cloves of garlic and possibly a bit more onion.