Recipe - Pumpkin Soup With Thai Green Curry Paste Croutons

SOUP
4 cup Chicken stock
2 ounce Heavy cream
6 cup Pumpkin puree; (recipe
below)

CROUTONS
1 tablespoon Plus 1 teaspoon extra virgin
olive oil
One half teaspoon Green curry paste
5 sl White bread; crust removed

PUMPKIN PUREE
1 Chinese pumpkin; (6 pound)
1 One half cup Water
2 tablespoon Butter

Simmer stock, puree and heavy cream until desired consistency. Bake minced
bread on a sheet pan in the oven at 450 degrees until browned. Meanwhile,
mix olive oil and green curry in a bowl. Remove bread from oven and place
in the bowl, covering it with curry. Place bread crumbs back into oven
until crisp.

Variations on soup: Lemon grass added to stock while heating.

PUMPKIN PUREE:

Remove skin from pumpkin and chop the meat into small pieces. Heat butter
in a saute pan and add the pumpkin. Add the water and simmer covered for
about 20 minutes or until the pumpkin is tender. Remove the pumpkin meat
and mash it by hand or in a food processor.

Yield: 9 cups

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Per serving: 1320 Calories (kcal); 53g Total Fat; (35% calories from fat);
31g Protein; 186g Carbohydrate; 141mg Cholesterol; 9601mg Sodium Food
Exchanges: 4 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 23 One half Vegetable; 0 Fruit;
10 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates

Recipe by: IN FOOD TODAY SHOW #INJ098

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