Spicy Pumpkin Creamy Soup with Coriander Pesto

This soup has nice, cream texture and spicy, coconut flavor.

Ingredients

Soup:

1 large red onion;

3 garlic cloves;

2 table spoons of olive oil;

1/3 teaspoon of dry chilli flakes;

 250 grams of fresh pumping;

200 ml of coconut cream;

1 vegetable stock cube(chicken cube optionally);

salt and freshly ground pepper.

Coriander Pesto:

2 cups fresh coriander leaves, chopped;

2 garlic cloves, chopped;

lemon juice;

salt, pepper and little bit of sugar;

olive oil (I added 1 cup, but it can be more to have more oily texture).

Garnish:

Garlic croutons;

Roasted pumpkin seeds. 

Method:

•  Add chopped onion and garlic into the saucepan with olive oil. Fry until everything will be nice and soft. 

• Add pumpkin cutted into the cubes and chilli flakes (I added 0,5 of  small teaspoon and soup was spicy enough, but everyone can add depending on spiciness they like)  fry it all together for 1 minute.

•  Add water (I filter it before adding) and vegetable cube. Boil it for 15-20 minutes.

• Leave it to cool down and then bled the soup to achieve a nice and smooth texture. 

•  Add coconut cream  and season it with black pepper and salt.

• Put all indigence for coriander pesto into the bawl or food processor and blend until all ingredients combine and create smooth and fine paste. 

Pour soup into the bowls, garnish with croutons, coriander leaves and coriander pesto.

 Mix it and enjoy it!

My Cooking Style 

 

There are few things that you need to know about my cooking skills before you will follow my recipes:

•  I never follow recipes!

• I am being inspired with some already existing recipes, but I always create my own version of dishes. 

• Sometimes I create my own dish and then I discover that this food already exists, that is why some of my propositions might have completely different names in all cooking bibles and other blogs.

•  I love healthy and not very complicated dishes.

• Cooking and baking relaxes me a lot and make me feel so happy when my family and friends like food prepared by me. 

• I was Restaurant founder and manager.It was organic and French themed bistro.

• I love mixed flavors, multicultural, fusion and traditional Polish food. 

• My best dishes always are being created when I am cleaning off the fridge.

• I hope that at least some people will find my ideas inspirational and will have as much fun cooking as me. 

 Enjoy! 

xxxxxx

Izabela

Churros- Spanish breakfast treats

Since I moved to Gibraltar I have eaten them many times. Although they are traditional Spanish breakfast snack, they are also very popular in Gibraltar. Taste is very similar like traditional Polish doughnuts but the way of serving it is completely different.

 The other name of this snack is Spanish Doughnut, but they are also very popular in France, Philippines, Portugal, Latin America and USA. 

There are two types of Churros, first one is thin and short, the the other one is thick and very long, this type is more popular in region where I live.

Churros are typical breakfast snacks. They can be found in special places called Churreria, where apart from churros people can also have coffee, but they are also made to be taken-away and this is what people do very often. In Gibraltar people eat them at work places with colleagues or friends. 

The best way to eat them is to dip them in melted chocolate or just simply sprinkle with a sugar.

Traditional Spanish Fair, called Feria is also a place where we can spot many Churrerias, because this is also very festive snack, they even welcome new year with this delicious doughnuts.

Recently they are also becoming more sophisticated snacks and being served in more and more exclusive restaurants. They serve them with fruits, cream and the most essential ingredient - melted chocolate. But the taste is still the same as a Churros that is wrapped in a paper and chocolate is served in a plastic cup, because this is how they usually sell them... and people love it like this,in a very simple way.

I love Polish doughnuts and I miss them a lot but I must admit that Churros are equally delicious, especially with good strong coffee and lots of melted chocolate.