Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 1/2 hours
Total Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Servings: 4
Cuisine: French
Course: Starter
Serve With: Roast Chicken and Vegetables
Ingredients:
- 3 pound pumpkin
- 6 ounces onion-garlic seasoned croutons
- 1/2 cup Gruyere cheese, or more as needed
- 1 quart half and half
Directions:
- Wash your pumpkin and cut out a lid on top large enough for a ladle. Be sure the pumpkin has a nice stem, because you will use this as a handle. Remove the stringy fibers and seeds from inside.
- To prepare the pumpkin soup recipe, layer the inside of the pumpkin with handfuls of croutons and layers of grated cheese.
- Top this vegetarian pumpkin soup with half and half, almost to the top. Season with fresh cracked pepper and sea salt. Add a sprig of fresh tarragon (or 1 teaspoon dried tarragon) and place lid on pumpkin.
- Bake on a cookie sheet for 1 1/2 hours at 350 F. When the creamy pumpkin soup is ready, stir with a spoon, scraping bits of pumpkin meat into the pumkin soup. Mixture should be thick. Enjoy this recipe for pumpkin soup!