The pumpkin is a magical vegetable. You can prepare fantastic Halloween decorations with it, but there are unlimited cooking uses for it as well. You can bake, boil or fry it. You can prepare cakes, crumpets, soups and stews. The diversity of dishes depends only on your imagination.

And even though it isn't Halloween today, on my table there is pumpkin soup. It is the easiest pumpkin dish I know. You should use it for your first attempt at cooking pumpkins. The beautiful colour of the soup should be considered as the promise of a creamy and very autumnal taste. The soup is delicately sweet, but you can prepare a more piquant version by adding chili pepper.

Ingredients:

2 kg of pumpkin

100ml of coconut milk

1 onion

2 cloves of garlic

3 tablespoons of olive oil

1 vegetable stock cube

1 tablespoon of butter

1 chili pepper

3 tablespoons of pumpkin seeds

salt and pepper

Peel the onion and garlic, slice them and fry them a little in olive oil. Peel the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces and add to the onion. Fry for 10 minutes but not for too long because the soup should be orange, not brown. Pour 300ml of water, coconut milk and add the stock cube. Boil until the pumpkin is soft. Spice it up with salt and pepper. Blend the soup thoroughly. Finally, add butter to the soup, in order to create a rich, creamy texture. Serve the cream of pumpkin with pumpkin seeds.

Enjoy your meal!