Nutrition and Oral Health - NHS Lanarkshire

Halloween
This is a time for the pumpkin – for making lanterns or for pumpkin soup or
pumpkin pie. There are many recipes around for each, but here is a very
simple one for cream of pumpkin soup:
Ingredients for pumpkin soup:
1 pumpkin (approx. 1.4 kg) 3 tbsp flour
2 small onions 1 pint (568 ml) milk
1 tbsp (25 ml) sunflower oil Little grated cheese
3 fl oz (100 ml) vegetable stock ½ – 1 small carton of cream
Method:
• Lightly fry pumpkin and onions in oil for 5 minutes - do not colour.
• Add stock, cover and simmer for an hour or until vegetables are soft, adding
extra water as necessary.
• Sieve or puree soup and return to pan.
• Blend flour with a little of the milk to a smooth cream.
• Add the rest of the milk to the soup and reheat.
• Stir a little of the soup into the blended flour and milk and return this
mixture to the pan.
• Bring to the boil, stirring until it thickens and cook for a further 2–3 minutes.
• Stir in cheese and cream.
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