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Spiced Pumpkin & Apple Soup With Kale

Here's how you make Spiced Pumpkin & Apple Soup With Kale
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 10m
  • Cook: 30m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 leek, chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 kilogram pumpkin (butternut pumpkin, peeled and chopped)
  • 1 apple (red, peeled, quartered, cored and chopped)
  • 600 ml chicken stock (or vegetable)
  • 300 ml buttermilk
  • 170 grams kale (1/2 bunch green kale)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 220C.

  • Step 2: Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large saucepan over medium heat and add leek and garlic and cook for 5 minutes or until leek is soft.

  • Step 3: Combine spices in a small bowl and then add 2 teaspoons of the spice mix to the pan and stir for 1 minute or until fragrant.

  • Step 4: Add pumpkin and apple and cook for 2 minutes until well coated in spice mixture and then stir in stock and bring to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes or until pumpkin and apple are soft.

  • Step 5: Puree with a stick blender or blender and return to the saucepan and stir in 1 cup buttermilk and simmer gently for 5 minutes until heated through.

  • Step 6: Meanwhile, strip kale leaves from the stems and tear into small pieces and then wash well and dry in a salad spinner (or can be done in a clean dry tea towel).

  • Step 7: Add remaining oil to kale and rub in well to coat and then arrange in a single layer on 2 baking paper lines oven trays.

  • Step 8: Mix reserved spice mix with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt flakes and scatter over kale and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until crisp.

  • Step 9: Ladle soup into bowls, drizzle with remaining buttermilk and serve topped with kale.


Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • Salad spinner

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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