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Making pumpkin soup can be hazardous
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Ahh Halloween. Or should that be AGGH! Halloween? Either way it’s a time of year famous for
one thing; Pumpkins. Carving pumpkins is part of the spirit of the festival, but what to do with
all that lovely flesh that you scoop out? Well, why not make some yummy soup? The recipe
here will feed two, or more if you have a small bowl each. It’s simple to make so let’s go!
Oh, and the method here describes using a mixer so that means asking an Adult. Don’t want
any accidents. Besides, there’s nothing worse than finding a finger floating in your soup. Even
on Halloween.
What you need:
Equipment
Ingredients
A sharp knife
A pumpkin
A chopping board
A slice of bacon
A spoon
A small onion
A frying pan
A vegetable or chicken stock cube
A pan
Ground Nutmeg
A jug
Ground Cinnamon
A food mixer
Making
1) Gather your ingredients and equipment
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2) To begin with the fun part! Preparing your pumpkin. Firstly, being extremely careful, take
your sharp knife and slice the top from the pumpkin.
3) Using a spoon scoop out the seeds and discard. You won’t be needing them for this
recipe. That won’t stop you using them for something else though.
4) Okay, now you need to scoop out all the fleshy stuff. That’s the part of the pumpkin we need
for our soup. Try to be careful, you don’t want to tear the orange outer part.
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5) Right, put the pumpkin aside for the moment, but don’t worry we’ll be using it again
soon. Now we need that sharp knife again. Peel the onion and chop it up into nice
small pieces.
6) Add a little oil to your frying pan and cook the oil for a few minutes until it all starts to
brown.
7) Again with the sharp knife, chop up the bacon and add it to the onion. Stir the two until the bacon
goes from pink and sticky to being firm. It’ll go whitish to start before getting darker and darker.
When it starts going this colour it’ll do. Don’t worry if you’re not sure, we’ll be cooking it a little more
shortly. Turn the heat down so that it doesn’t burn whilst we do the next part.
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8) Now, get hold of the fleshy bit we scooped out of the pumpkin earlier. Using that big knife again,
very carefully chop the flesh into small pieces. Then add those to our pan. Stir them around for a
minute or so over the low heat.
9) Using boiling water (Please be careful with that too) make up a half pint of stock. Use a measuring
jug to get the right amount. Then tip it into the pan with the other ingredients.
10) Turn the heat back up until the concoction begins to simmer. Then add the teaspoon of nutmeg
and a teaspoon of cinnamon. Add a little salt too. You might need to taste it to see how much. It’ll be
REALLY hot so don’t forget to blow on it!
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11) Simmer the soup for ten minutes. It should smell lovely! Try not to have it too hot or all the
water will boil away. If this happens and it’s starting to get a bit dry carefully add a little more.
12) Okay, so that’s the cooking part done. The final part is to turn our lumpy broth into soup. So it’s
time for the food mixer. Make sure your responsible adult attaches the chopping blade. Select a
suitable speed and then whizz away. Try not to do it too fast or it’ll slop right up the walls! And if
you’re doing it whilst the soup is still hot then it might scald you too. You’ve been warned!
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13) And there you have it. Pumpkin soup. Pour it into a bowl and enjoy on its own or with crusty
bread. You soup might be quite thick. To make the soup a little thinner simply add a little water and
then heat the whole lot. Yum!
All that remains is for your responsible adult to carve the pumpkin!i Bet you can’t guess what I
carved!
Happy Halloween!
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We won’t go into how dangerous pumpkin carving can be. Just, please ask your adult.
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