Pumpkin, Chia & Cashew Soup

[judydawn]

Pumpkin, Chia & Cashew Soup - serves 4.

Ingredients
1 Tblspn Olive Oil
1 onion, quartered
1 clove of garlic
550g peeled & roughly diced pumpkin
80g roasted cashews
1.5 Tbspns Tomato Relish (or 1 Tbspn tomato paste)
1 litre water
1.5 tbspns veg stock concentrate
1.5 tbspns chia seeds
S & P to taste (I only used pepper)

Place the oil, onion and garlic into the TM bowl, chop a few seconds on speed 5.

Sautée 4 mins/Varoma temp/speed 1, MC off.

Add the pumpkin, cashews and tomato relish.

Cook 3 mins/100 degrees/reverse/speed 1.

Add the water and veg stock concentrate, cook 20 minutes/100 degrees/speed 1 or until the pumpkin is cooked.

Add the chia seeds and process 1 min/speed 9. Taste before adding S & P.

This recipe has been converted from one in a 2019 Woolworths magazine.

[mab19]

That soup sounds nice Judy.

[judydawn]

Thank you Margaret, I’m trying to get more goodness into my soups

[Cuilidh]

Looks good, Judy - I wish it was soup weather now and not 30+ over the next few days!

I always use raw cashews when I cook, so I don't know if this will affect the roasted cashews in any way. Try soaking the cashews in hot / boiling water for about 20 - 30 minutes then rinsing them before adding them to the soup - they will be softer and will be less coarse when you zap the soup.

For myself, and for nutritional reasons, I would also leave the skin on the pumpkin (especially if it is butternut), but I don't know that that would be wise for you to do at this stage, even after putting it through the TMX at no. 9 and the soup will be lovely and smooth, the skin may not be broken down enough.

[judydawn]

I used Queensland Blue Marina, that’s much harder than butternut. My cashews were the raw ones and I just tossed them in a heavy duty frying pan to ‘roast’ them.  I have soaked cashews for other recipes in the past, not sure if roasting them actually added to the flavour but I guess it did. Thanks for your advice.

[cookie1]

Judy that soup sounds very nice. I'm even thinking it would be tasty as a chilled soup. I love ordinary pumpkin soup chilled.

[judydawn]

Could be cookie, I’m not into cold soups though so I can’t try it for you.

[cookie1]

I have some pumpkin in the fridge, I will check that it is enough to make this.

[cookie1]

Judy how much chia seeds do you add please?

[judydawn]

Oops I forgot that didn’t I?  I’ve added it to the ingredient list cookie, it’s 1.5 tbspns.  Thanks for the heads up.

[cookie1]

Thanks Judy. I’ve cooked it and just waiting to purée it. I can’t wait to taste it. Thanks.