Secret Ingredient Pumpkin Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 green onions, chopped
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 cups pumpkin puree (freshly cooked pumpkin works best, but canned is fine too)
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
• 1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
• black pepper, to taste
• nutmeg, to taste

Recipe

• 1 melt butter in large pot.
• 2 add onion and celery and saute until soft but not brown.
• 3 add tomato paste, bay leaves, pumpkin, and chicken broth; allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
• 4 remove bay leaf and our soup through a sieve set over a large enough bowl to catch soup.
• 5 add cream to the strained soup and return to stockpot.
• 6 bring to just under the boiling point, but do not boil.
• 7 reduce heat and allow to simmer 5 minutes.
• 8 test seasonings and adjust salt, pepper to your liking, grating some fresh nutmeg over the soup to taste.