How to make the signature pumpkin soup?
First, create the broth for the pumpkin soup base. It can be fish, poultry or pork.
Ingredients for 4 persons:
1. One bowl of broth as soup base
2. 8 oz. lean pork.
3. Half an Australian pumpkin.
4. 1 piece of medium size onion
5. A non stick pan
6. Cooking olive oil
7. 2 litres of filtered water
Preparation:
1. Cut the onion into slices.
2. Cut the pumpkin into a few big pieces. Cut the skin of pumpkin away and then cut into small cubes.
3. Cut the lean pork into 8 pieces.
4. Make a small pot of boiling water. Put the lean pork into the boiling water for 3 minutes. This step is to remove the blood in the pork. Then rinse the pork in cold filtered water.
Cooking:
1. Heat the pan. Fry the onion with cooking olive oil until it looks transparent and brown.
This step is to remove the gas in onions.
2. Fry the pumpkin in cooking olive oil.
3. Make a pot of boiling filtered water.
4. Put the fried onion, pumpkin, and lean pork into the boiling water to boil together for 45 minutes.
5. Blend the pumpkin, onion and pork in a Vitamix in high speed until smooth.
6. Bring everything in the broth to a boil again in medium heat for 15 minutes.
7. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Garnish with your favourite herbs and serve in bowls.
9. Sit back to enjoy with the Fall colours.
Tips:
To prepare the onion, cut the two ends away and cut the onion into two even halves. Peel the skin away and submerged the two halves into water for 3 minutes. This step is essential to keep yourself not crying when cutting the onion into slices. Pick up and drain well. Then cut each halves into long thin slices.