[recipe] Curried Pumpkin Soup

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This soup is very easy to make and quite

delicious. Enjoy!

 

Curried Pumpkin Soup

 

1/2 lb. fresh mushrooms, sliced

1/2 cup chopped onion

2 Tbs butter or margarine

2 Tbs all-purpose flour

1/2 to 1 tsp curry

3 cups vegetable broth

1 can (15 oz) solid-pack pumpkin

1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk

1 Tbs honey

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Sour cream and chives, optional

 

In a large saucepan, saute the mushrooms and onion

in butter until tender. Stir in the flour and curry powder

until blended. Gradually add the broth. Bring to a boil;

cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add the

pumpkin, milk, honey, salt, pepper and nutmeg; heat

through. Garnish individual servings with sour cream

and chives if desired.

Yield: 7 servings

 

~ PT ~

 

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,

but beautiful old people are works of art.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)