Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of beauty? A fan of a healthy lifestyle? A lover just to eat delicious, but without harm to the figures? Then you will be able to appreciate pumpkin soup. Because the pumpkin soup - it's bright, it's delicious, it's beautiful, it's helpful! Not much there for a meal? No, at the time. This soup will turn out bright, so, cheer up. He is generous and at the same time it is dietary. It can be made sweet or salty, prepared with vegetables, meat, fish, milk or cream.

Recipe for pumpkin soup any difficult not name. And you can cook it for the children's menu, and a family dinner, and for myself (the martyr, "sitting" on a diet). Try to start to prepare, for example, mashed pumpkin soup with cream, or rather, his dietary option.

Dietary pumpkin soup

The soup gets enough nourishing but low-calorie, and is perfect for the diet. If you wish, you can vary the seasonings to your liking. And if you apply cream, then you get a real (but not dietary) pumpkin puree soup with cream.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (small or half a large)
• Onions (2 heads)
• Garlic (head)
• Ginger powder (a quarter of a teaspoon)
• Turmeric (tablespoon)
• Salt and pepper
• Water

Preparation:

Pumpkin peeled, cut into slices and lay in a saucepan. Add water (two cups) and simmer on low heat for about twenty minutes. While the pumpkin is preparing, purifying and chop the garlic and onion and lightly fry them in vegetable oil (about three minutes). The finished pumpkin add to taste salt and pepper, turmeric and ginger, stir, pour out the water (in a separate pan). Spiced pumpkin puree rub in (can be in a blender, you can simply plug in a skillet), put in the onions with garlic mashed potatoes, add the desired quantity of fusion of water - get the soup.

Note:

Tip blyustitelnitsa slim figure and a strict diet: onion and garlic, you can not fry, and stew with pumpkin.

Pumpkin soup with bacon

This recipe is, of course, is no longer called dietary. However, a pumpkin - soup base, and therefore even a "harmful" product like bacon it successfully "cures." Well, what is the taste of pumpkin soup puree with bacon, judge for yourself.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin
• Onions
• Bacon (200-300 g)
• Vegetable oil (tablespoon)
• Carrots (2 pcs.)
• Salt and pepper
• Sour cream
• Parsley

Preparation:

Pumpkin clean peel, remove seeds. Carrots wash and clean. Cut the pumpkin and carrots into cubes, put in a pot of water and cook for about twenty minutes. Bacon and onion cut into strips and fry in vegetable oil (until golden brown onions). Pumpkin and carrots with a slotted spoon take out of the pan and grind into a puree. The resulting puree put back into the pan and add it to the fried onions with bacon, pepper and salt. We bring the soup to a boil. Serve with sour cream and herbs.

Note:

Instead of water, you can use chicken or vegetable broth.

Pumpkin soup with croutons

The recipe milk soup with pumpkin and crunchy croutons of white bread or loaf. Very tasty dish. Soup color is different delicate and tender creamy consistency.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin
• Milk (a little less than a liter)
• Fatty cream (half a cup)
• Butter (tablespoon)
• White bread (quartered loaves)
• Salt

Preparation:

Purified squash cut into slices, put in a saucepan or in a roasting pan. Half of the milk boil and pour them a pumpkin. Add salt, simmer until cooked under the lid closed. Stewed pumpkin in milk through a sieve (with "broth) and diluted with the remaining milk. Again, we put the soup on the stove and bring to a boil. Ready soup dressed with cream and butter. Bread cut into small cubes and lightly dried in the oven (microwave). Feeding soup, put the croutons in a bowl.

Pumpkin soup with prawns

That's got to seafood. And why not diversify the pumpkin soup, for example, all the loved ones and those available shrimp and as a result get a very interesting recipe pumpkin puree soup? Try?

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin
• Onions
• Prawns (150g)
• Bouillon (about a liter)
• Cream (half cup)
• Hot pepper (1 pc.)
• Sugar (teaspoon)
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Green onion
• Salt and black pepper

Preparation:

Raw shrimp net and fry in vegetable oil. Hot pepper finely chopped. Chives shinkuem. Pumpkin (peeled and washed) cut into large cubes, onion - small. Pumpkin with onions turned up in a vegetable oil (tablespoon), we shift into a saucepan and fill with chicken broth. Simmer for about twenty minutes. Cook, became a soft pumpkin puree into the crush (without removing it from the pan), add cream, salt, sugar and black pepper. Boil. Put the soup shrimp and hot pepper, served with green onion.

Sweet soup from a pumpkin

Sweet pumpkin soup, ideal for the children's menu and is suitable as a dessert dietary table.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (half a kilogram)
• Glass of water
• Milk (2 cups)
• Flour (2 tbsp. L.)
• Sugar (3 tbsp. L.)
• Lemon zest
• Butter (2 tbsp. L.)
• Cinnamon (teaspoon)
• Salt

Preparation:

Peeled and washed finely cut the pumpkin and simmer in salted water until soft. Flour a little fry in a dry frying pan. Cooked pumpkin rubbed through a sieve. Fill with milk. Add the flour, lemon zest and sugar. Feeding on the table, soup dressed with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon

Note:

Recipe allows use semolina flour instead. For dietary options soup from flour and oil may be waived by all. The soup will turn out not less tasty.

French pumpkin soup

It turns out that the menu of French cuisine is also present the recipe of pumpkin soup. Entrust recognized gourmet taste?

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (a little less than one kilogram)
• Stem leeks
• Potatoes (2-3 shit.)
• Olive oil (2 tbsp. L.)
• Vegetable broth (per liter)
• Lemon juice (tablespoon)
• Sour cream (half a cup)

Preparation:

Pumpkin and potatoes my, clean and cut into cubes. Onions cut into rings. All vegetables fried in olive oil until transparent bow. Add the vegetables to the broth and cook the soup for about fifteen minutes. At the end of cooking pour the lemon juice, salt and pepper. Beat with a mixer. Serve with sour cream and croutons (optional).

Pumpkin soup with cream

The combination of pumpkin and cream can be called a classic. Cream is added to the pumpkin soup at the stage of preparation or run by them ready soups. We offer you the recipe (one of many), light vegetable soup with cream.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (200 g)
• Sunflower oil
• Potatoes (1 pc.)
• Water (part-time cup)
• Cream (half cup)
• Salt
• White bread

Preparation:

Peeled and washed potatoes pumpkin and cut into medium-sized cubes and allowances on a frying pan with vegetable oil. Add the water and simmer under the lid closed for about fifteen minutes. Ready shred vegetables in a blender or a mixer. We shift into a saucepan and add the warmed cream. Put the pan on the fire, giving the soup puree to boil and tormented to simmer for five minutes. Season with salt. Serve with crackers.

Pumpkin soup with meatballs

Although men and can not be attributed to the fans of pumpkin dishes, especially soups and purees, a soup recipe pumpkin certainly find admirers among them.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (about a kilogram)
• Fatty cream (glass)
• Minced chicken (half a kilogram)
• Egg (1 pc.)
• Basil (2 branches)
• Dill (beam)
• Salt
• Cheese

Preparation:

Pumpkin clean, cut and heated in a microwave oven five to six minutes. Mixer or blender make pumpkin puree. Put the pan on the fire with water and wait until it boils. As the water boils, minced salt, pepper, add to it egg and form small meatballs. Dipped in boiling water meatballs, giving them boil for four minutes and add the pumpkin puree. Then pour in the cream, bring the soup to a boil, but do not boil. Remove from heat. Serve soup with herbs and grated cheese.

Useful tips

1. If the pumpkin peel is removed with difficulty, it can be cooked with the peel and clean the already cooked.
2. If you care about preserving the nutrients in pumpkin, do not boil it, and bring to the softness in the microwave.
3. Beta-carotene, which is contained in a pumpkin, fat-soluble. So the pumpkin dishes and seasoned with butter, sour cream or fat. The dietary options - oil.
4. They combine well with pumpkin spices such as black pepper, nutmeg, rosemary, ginger, garlic, sage and bay leaf.
5. If you make a sweet pumpkin soup, add the whipped cream and pastry seasoning, and then freeze, you get a delicious pumpkin ice cream.

So cook the pumpkin, like pumpkin, enjoy its original taste and benefit from this solar product. Cook with pleasure!