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Pumpkin soup

 Warm and rich pumpkin soup...tastes comforting on a rainy monsoon eve!!!!


Ingredients

Red pumpkin 250 GM's
Onion 1big
Bay leaf 1
Salt to taste
Butter 1 tbsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Pepper powder 1tsp

Method

Clean and dice pumpkin into cubes.
Heat a pan add butter,keep medium flame,add onion,garlic and bay leaf 

Saute onion till they are translucent.Add the pumpkin and saute until raw smell goes.


Add a glass of water and cook till pumpkin and onion turns soft.
Remove bay leaf and puree the pumpkin into a smooth consistency.


Simmer the pumpkin soup for few minutes again,add the bay leaf and salt.switch off flame when it starts to simmer.

Add a dash of pepper powder and serve the pumpkin soup warm.
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