Pumpkin Soup

Warm your belly and soothe your soul with this comforting pumpkin soup recipe from Chef Shellie Froidevaux. Using the soup mode in the Panasonic SR-DF181WST Automatic Rice Cooker saves you time and stress. The fuzzy logic technology built into the Rice Cooker calculates the cooking time automatically for set-and-forget simplicity and eliminating the need to watch over the stove.

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Author: Chef Shellie Froidevaux

Ingredients

500 g Kent pumpkin roughly chopped (after peeling)
1 Small brown onion diced
500 ml chicken stock
100 ml milk
30 g butter
Sea salt
Cracked black pepper
Cream to serve
Pepitas to serve
Bread and butter to serve

Instructions

Place the pumpkin, onion, chicken stock, milk, butter into the inner pan, and season with salt and pepper. Close the lid and press the 'Porridge/Soup' setting. Cooking will take around 1.5 hours.
When the soup is cooked, press 'Off'. Remove the inner pan from the rice cooker and blitz with a stick blender until smooth.
Divide into soup bowls, top with a drizzle of cream and a sprinkling of pepitas.