Seed, peel and slice your pumpkin into half inch sizes.
Place in mixing bowl with olive oil and smoked paprika. Mix well.
Place pumpkin on roasting tray and roast for 30 minutes at 180ºC – 350ºF
Dice the chorizo into small cubes, add to a frying pan medium heat and cook until almost crispy.
Place chorizo meat on paper towel to absorb the fat.
Melt the butter in a soup pot on medium heat.
Add a chopped onion and sweat the onions.
Remove the pumpkin from the oven and add to the soup pot.
Add the chicken stock.
Add the bay leaf.
Stir well and simmer for 20 minutes on low heat.
Slice a green onion, keep aside.
Remove bay leaf.
Use a blender or kitchen appliance to blend until smooth.
Serve with a dollop of sour cream, chorizo and sliced green onion.
**My own notes** On his site he writes “900g 1 lb of pumpkin” which I assume is a typo as 900g is about 2 pounds, so I changed that when I posted the recipe. If you aren’t keen on cooking with whole bay leaves, what I do is **grind up bay leaves** in a spice grinder to a powder and then I can sprinkle the bay directly into my soup. This gives great control and you have the flavor distributed nicely. In the past when I’ve made this I **fried sage leaves** to top the soup and I recommend that as it really gives a nice complement to the pumpkin and sausage.
jamesTcrusher
The knife work is bothering me and I can’t figure out why
Rocknocker
Needs more garlic.
chapped_azzes
Squash*
Two questions: why drain the chorizo into paper rather than cooking it in the pot then removing and using the chorizo fat to fry the onion? Also, why not prep the squash with the olive oil paprika and garlic on the roasting tray? Gotta try to save the time and effort of cleaning extra dishes
pdperson
Roast the squash before you peel it.
philshirakawa
Would using cream instead of stock work to make a creamed version?
ObviousEscape2
Needs like 6 x as much garlic
TheOneAndOnlyLanyard
Wasting valuable chorizo grease. I’d have scooped the chorizo out with a draining spoon, then cooked the onions in the bacon grease.
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I never thought to combine pumpkin and chorizo. I love that idea.
Source: [Recipe 30](https://recipe30.com/pumpkin-soup-recipe.html/)
900g (2 pounds) of pumpkin
1 brown onion
1 spring (green) onion
2 large cloves of garlic
1 Chorizo dry sausage (approx 150g – 5oz)
1 tsp smoked paparika
30g – 1oz butter
1 bay leaf
1 tsp of salt
Pepper to taste
700ml – 3 cups chicken stock
Some chopped spring (green) onion
Optional, sour cream
Seed, peel and slice your pumpkin into half inch sizes.
Place in mixing bowl with olive oil and smoked paprika. Mix well.
Place pumpkin on roasting tray and roast for 30 minutes at 180ºC – 350ºF
Dice the chorizo into small cubes, add to a frying pan medium heat and cook until almost crispy.
Place chorizo meat on paper towel to absorb the fat.
Melt the butter in a soup pot on medium heat.
Add a chopped onion and sweat the onions.
Remove the pumpkin from the oven and add to the soup pot.
Add the chicken stock.
Add the bay leaf.
Stir well and simmer for 20 minutes on low heat.
Slice a green onion, keep aside.
Remove bay leaf.
Use a blender or kitchen appliance to blend until smooth.
Serve with a dollop of sour cream, chorizo and sliced green onion.
**My own notes** On his site he writes “900g 1 lb of pumpkin” which I assume is a typo as 900g is about 2 pounds, so I changed that when I posted the recipe. If you aren’t keen on cooking with whole bay leaves, what I do is **grind up bay leaves** in a spice grinder to a powder and then I can sprinkle the bay directly into my soup. This gives great control and you have the flavor distributed nicely. In the past when I’ve made this I **fried sage leaves** to top the soup and I recommend that as it really gives a nice complement to the pumpkin and sausage.
The knife work is bothering me and I can’t figure out why
Needs more garlic.
Squash*
Two questions: why drain the chorizo into paper rather than cooking it in the pot then removing and using the chorizo fat to fry the onion? Also, why not prep the squash with the olive oil paprika and garlic on the roasting tray? Gotta try to save the time and effort of cleaning extra dishes
Roast the squash before you peel it.
Would using cream instead of stock work to make a creamed version?
Needs like 6 x as much garlic
Wasting valuable chorizo grease. I’d have scooped the chorizo out with a draining spoon, then cooked the onions in the bacon grease.