Pumpkin Soup

I wanted to use up some of the many pumpkins I have stored at the moment, so pumpkin soup was on the cards - yum.

Ingredients

1 pumpkin cut and peeled

1 onion diced

2 stalks celery sliced

1 capsicum diced

1 large or 2 small sweet potatoes peeled and diced

1 rasher bacon

1 tablespoon butter

3 tablespoons flour

6 cups chicken stock

1/2 cup cream

Method

Melt butter, add vegetables and bacon and saute for 5 minutes. Leave lid on to sweat vegetables, but stir occasionally. 

Add flour and mix until combined,

 








then add chicken stock, and stir occasionally until boiling. Slow boil until vegetables are soft and mushy.

Remove from heat. Mash first with a potato masher, and then pulp up with a hand blender. Add half cup cream and stir, then serve. Serve with home made bread and butter.