Creamy Pumpkin Basil soup

Creamy Pumpkin Basil soup  

I made Delicious Creamy Pumpkin soup for my Sister when she was Visiting me last week. She keeps complaining about how I cook all this food for B and she can't have anything because she lives faraway.  

So now that she is here on a vacation, I told her that I will do my healthy super foods for you that you otherwise hate but would gulp it all down, without a single frown.

I am trying to swap my dinner of chapati, dal etc with soups and colourful salads to give my body more of vitamins and minerals and less of carbs.

This is a good #keto recipe. 

Macros :

Fat- 8 g

Carbs-10 g
Protein- 2 g

Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cooking Time:10 minutes

Serves : 2-3 Bowls

Ingredients :

200 g Yellow pumpkin

1 medium size white onion ( Red onion is also okay )

2 cloves of garlic

1/2 cup olive oil

1 tbsp butter

1 tsp sea salt

1 tsp black pepper

3 tbsp Cream

1 tsp fresh parsley

2 cups of water

Method :

1) In a bowl add pumpkin, white onion, garlic cloves and olive oil with sea salt. Mix it and bake it for about 20 minutes at 170'C.

2) Take a Boiling pan and bring to boil 2 cups of water. Once boiled , add the crushed baked vegetables along with black pepper, fresh parsley and basil leaves.

3) Bring it to boil and switch off the flame. 

4) Blend the mixture using a hand blender and bring it to boil again . 

5) Add cream, salt and lemon juice to the mix.

6) Drop in a  tbsp of Butter if you like and serve hot with a toast or sip it just like that.

7) For added flavour you could also garnish soup with fried garlic and fried onions.

P.S - 

If you don't have a microwave or oven then don't worry. 

Boil pumpkin pieces till 1 whistle. 

In a pan, add butter, chopped garlic, chopped onion and stop it till golden brown. 

Then add the pumpkin to it and fry till slight golden. 

Add water, herbs and bring it to boil. Later using hand blender churn it and boil once before serving. 

Serve with a tbsp of cream or butter.

Cream is a good fat so there is no harm in taking that once a while.

Keep cooking, keep loving :)