How to make the perfect pumpkin soup
Jill Dupleix
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Roast pumpkin soup with chickpeas
Warm, velvety and simple to make, pumpkin soup is your cold-weather friend. And by adding chickpeas and merguez sausages, you turn soup into dinner.
INGREDIENTS
1 fresh red chilli
750ml vegetable stock
½ cup parsley or coriander sprigs
METHOD
Heat oven to 180C fan-forced (200C conventional). Roughly chop the pumpkin (no need to peel), and arrange with onion, tomato and garlic on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Coat the vegetables with 2 tbsp olive oil, scatter with sea salt and black pepper, and bake for 45-55 minutes, removing the tomato and garlic, and turning the pumpkin after 30 minutes. Transfer vegetables to a chopping board until cool enough to handle.
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