Halloween - Pumpkin Patch Corn Chowder

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Pumpkin Patch Corn Chowder

 

This side dish chowder is full of vegetables--potatoes, carrots,

celery, onion, corn and canned pumpkin--and is seasoned with a little

pumpkin pie spice.

 

 

 

Ingredients:

2 cups peeled, cubed potatoes

1/2 cup carrot thinly sliced

1/2 cup celery thinly sliced

1/2 cup onion chopped

1/3 cup margarine or butter

1/3 cup flour

2 cups whole milk

2 cups canned pure pumpkin

1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1 teaspoon brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

One 15 ounce can whole kernel corn2 Tablespoons fresh parsley chopped

Method

In large soup pot, stir together 3 cups water, the potato, carrot,

celery, and onion; bring to boil over high heat, reduce heat to

medium and cook 10 minutes until vegetables are tender. (Do not

Drain.) Meanwhile in a Medium saucepan over medium heat melt

margarine or butter; add flour and cook one minute; add milk. Cook &

stir until mixture is thickened and comes to a boil. Remove from heat

and stir in pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, brown sugar, salt and pepper.

Mix well. Add pumpkin mixture to vegetable mixture in soup pot; add

corn and parsley and stir to combine well. Heat through, do not boil.

Serve in soup bowls.

 

This is another dish I served at her Halloween party, the girls loved

it! They added soup crackers to it but whatever they liked it! Thumbs

up for getting the kido's to see what my daughter has been telling

them about vegetarian eating.