Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Choosing Pumpkin Soup Recipes

By Kc Kudra

As the weather gets cooler, we all want to enjoy some hearty seasonal foods. One excellent choice to spice up your menu a little is pumpkin soup. Pumpkins are good more than just pie, and there are all kinds of wonderful options available. Creamy bisques, cheesy soups, and hearty stews are all great with pumpkin.

You can try fusion cuisine, adding Thai or Indian spices to your soup to create a great curry flavor, or stick with hearty, familiar tastes that will make you think of home. There are lots of options available, and pumpkin soup is one of the least noticed fall recipes. For a lot of people, the idea of making a savory recipe with pumpkin is strange and unusual.

Most people run into one big problem with making pumpkin soup right away, however. Finding recipes can be really tricky, especially since a lot of people do not even know you can make soup out of a pumpkin. Most cookbooks do not offer a lot of information about using this method to cook pumpkin. Fortunately, that does not mean you cannot find a good recipe. All you really need to do is check online.

The Internet has lots of great options for making soup out of pumpkins, from cooking blogs to major recipe hubs with all kinds of choices. Do a quick search in your favorite search engine or check out your favorite cooking site and you will find a lot of options.

Of course, not all pumpkin soup recipes are created equal. Some of them assume you know a few steps that are not included in the instructions. If the recipe does not instruct you to boil and peel your pumpkin before cooking, you could end up with a result that is nothing like you expected. Look over any recipe you choose to make sure that it will actually do the job, and that you understand what you are supposed to get out of it.

Of course, you can cut down on a lot of the work by simply sticking to sites you know you can trust. There are lots of fall recipe and specialty sites out there, and they have got information that has been checked out in advance to ensure that the pumpkin soup you make will work.

Go over any recipe to make sure that you understand it, have all the ingredients on hand, and know what to expect out of it before you start. There are lots of excellent methods for making pumpkin into soup, from using the crock-pot to cooking it in a hollow pumpkin. Add a few of the more interesting presentation options and you will have a much more enjoyable fall meal.

If you have been looking for a great new option for dinner this fall, it might be time to think about pumpkin. It is not just for pie, and there are all kinds of things you can do with it. Soups keep getting more popular. Do not just stick with the same old thing - pumpkin soup can be pretty amazing.

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