Superb Pumpkin and Goat Cheese Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 lbs pie pumpkin, seeded, peeled and diced
- 3⁄4 cup white onion, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, cloves cut into quarters
- 4 1⁄2 cups fish stock or 4 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 1⁄2 cup goat cheese
- 1 1⁄4 cups cream (optional)
- 5 leaves fresh basil, sliced
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 1 halibut fillet (optional)
directions
- Roast pumpkin, onions, and garlic in a roasting pan with a bit of olive oil. In a soup pot, put the roasted items and turn to medium heat.
- Add 3/4 of the stock and simmer for up to 45 minutes, or until fully cooked. Put in a food processor and blend until smooth.
- Blend in small amounts of the goat cheese along with the cream if desired.
- Adjust thickness with the leftover stock.
- Add more cream if desired and finish seasoning with herbs, salt, and pepper.
- If you add a filet of your chosen fish, pan-fry it first with oil, salt and pepper, then add it to the soup.
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