Best Simple Pumpkin Sherry Soup Recipes

EASY PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.
• Cook chopped onions until soft and golden brown.
• Heat the broth in a good-sized pot, add pumpkin slowly, and bring to a partial boil.
• Stir in onions, milk, polenta, honey, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, salt, and pepper (pressed garlic might be suitable at this time).
• Make sure that the ingredients do not clump but are spread throughout the soup.
• Cook for about 5 minutes or longer until all ingredients have been thoroughly mixed and dissolved and so the soup is thoroughly heated.
• If at this point it seems chunkier or thicker than desired; use an immersion blender or a regular one to liquefy the soup and blend in the onions.
• Serve warm with pieces of bread if desired.

NUTTY PUMPKIN BISQUE

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. stockpot, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 2-3 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in stock, pumpkin, sherry, brown sugar and seasonings; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes., Stir in cream, pecans and seeds. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Process in batches in a blender until smooth. Return all to pan; heat through. If desired, serve with optional toppings.

PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat stock, salt, pumpkin, onion, thyme, garlic, and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes uncovered.
• Puree the soup in small batches (1 cup at a time) using a food processor or blender.
• Return to pan, and bring to a boil again. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for another 30 minutes, uncovered. Stir in heavy cream. Pour into soup bowls and garnish with fresh parsley.

BROWN BUTTER PUMPKIN SOUP WITH SHERRY GASTRIQUE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375° F and set two racks evenly apart. Cut each pumpkin in half horizontally, scoop out the seeds and put them in a small mixing bowl. Scrape out most of the stringy pulp from the pumpkin and discard. . Spread 1/2 teaspoon of butter inside each pumpkin half and then season them with salt and pepper. Place the pumpkin halves cut side-down in a baking dish large enough to hold all four (divide them between two baking dishes if they don't fit in one). Add enough of the water to go ½ inch up each pumpkin half.
• Toss the pumpkin seeds with 1 teaspoon of the olive oil and spread them out on a baking sheet. Transfer the pumpkins and the seeds to the oven. Bake the seeds on the bottom rack for 15 minutes, or until they begin to brown. Remove from the oven, season with salt and set aside.
• Put the pumpkins on the top rack in the oven and bake them for about 45 minutes, or until the skins turn a deep orange and the flesh is tender. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. When the pumpkins are cool enough to handle, scoop out the flesh and discard the skins. Reserve the pumpkin flesh and baking liquid.
• Heat a Dutch oven or large heavy bottomed saucepot over medium-low heat and add 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add the onion and garlic and sweat for 5 minutes. Add the apple and fennel, season with salt and pepper, and sweat for 15 minutes more. Add the white wine and simmer to reduce almost all of the liquid. Add four cups of chicken stock, reserved liquid and the pumpkin flesh. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for an 1 1/2 hours.
• Puree soup with immersion blender. Serve drizzled with gastrique.

CURRIED PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• Cook onions in butter in a wide 6-quart heavy pot over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and ginger and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add cumin, coriander, and cardamom and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Stir in salt, red pepper flakes, pumpkin, water, broth, and coconut milk and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes. Purée soup in batches in a blender until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids), transferring to a large bowl, and return soup to pot. Keep soup warm over low heat.
• Heat oil in a small heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then cook mustard seeds until they begin to pop, about 15 seconds. Add curry leaves and cook 5 seconds, then pour mixture into pumpkin soup. Stir until combined well and season soup with salt. Soup can be thinned with additional water.

CREAMY PUMPKIN SOUP WITH CANNED PUMPKIN PUREE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in parsley and increase heat to medium-high. Add flour, stirring constantly, and cook until it thickens, about 2 minutes. Slowly add chicken stock, stirring constantly. Add pumpkin puree and stir until well combined. Stir in chicken base, vegetable base, and pesto. Bring to a very low boil and let it bubble for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Puree soup on low speed with an immersion blender until creamy, about 30 seconds. Add heavy cream, salt and garlic powder; stir until thoroughly mixed. Ladle into soup bowls and top with pepper.

PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Remove from the heat; stir in flour until smooth. Gradually stir in the broth, pumpkin, brown sugar, salt, pepper and nutmeg; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add cream; cook until heated through, about 2 minutes.

CREAMY PUMPKIN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or other heavy-bottomed pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onions and rosemary and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are lightly caramelized, about 15 to 20 minutes. If the onions begin browning too quickly, turn the heat to low.
• Add the maple syrup and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions have darkened in color, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the cider and cook, scraping up any bits from the bottom of the pan, until the liquid is reduced by about half.
• Add the broth, pumpkin purée, curry powder, nutmeg, cloves, salt and pepper, stir to combine, and bring to a boil. Turn the heat to medium-low and cook at a full simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally and scraping the bottom of the pot to prevent scorching.
• Working in batches, purée the soup in a blender or food processor and return to the pot (or use an immersion blender). Bring back to a simmer over medium heat, then turn off the heat and stir in the cream. Season with salt and pepper to taste and add more broth if the soup is too thick.
• To make the optional fried sage topping, melt the butter in a small or medium skillet set over medium-high heat. Add the sage leaves and fry until just crisp, 1 to 2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon or a fork, transfer the sage leaves to a paper towel-lined plate, reserving the butter left behind in the pan.
• To serve, spoon the soup into individual bowls. Top each serving with 2 fried sage leaves and a drizzle of the reserved butter (if using), or a swirl of cream and pinch of nutmeg. Serve hot.

SIMPLE PUMPKIN-SHERRY SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large pot and sauté the garlic, onion and thyme. (You can also add any additional spices from the above list that you might want.) Stir in the pumpkin and sherry, and cook for about 5 minutes while stirring over a medium heat. Let this simmer for about 10 minutes, then serve. Garnish with extra basil leaves and sour cream.