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Pumpkin Soup
Serves: Makes 1 – serves 4
Ingredients:
- 6 scoops of Ensure Vanilla Powder
- 650g pumpkin, chopped into small cubes
- 2 cloves garlic
- ½ small onion, diced
- 2½ cups vegetable stock
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper to season
Method:
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
- Place pumpkin and garlic cloves on baking tray and drizzle with oil. Roast pumpkin and garlic for 20 minutes or until pumpkin is cooked all the way through.
- Cook onions until slightly soft with nutmeg, cumin, salt and pepper in medium soup pot.
- Add pumpkin and vegetable stock and bring to boil.
- Lower to simmer and cook for 15 minutes.
- Peel garlic and add to soup.
- Add Ensure Powder and stir through.
- Use stick blender to puree.
- Serve with cream and fresh herbs.
Tip:
- For a richer, sweetly intense flavour, roast the pumpkin in a hot 170ºC oven for 1 hour to caramelise, before blending.
Nutrition content per serve:
Energy: 786kJ
Protein: 6.3g
Total fat: 8g
Saturated fat: 1.2g
Carbohydrate: 20.6g
Sugar: 11.9g
Fibre: 4.9g
Sodium: 666 mg